Description

The BP Texas City Oil Refinery disaster in 2005 shocked the world. With many safe-guards in place and lost-time injury rates so low, how could so many people be killed in a wholly preventable disaster?
With John Chidgey.

Links of potential interest:

• The U.S. Chemical Safety Board
• Texas City Refinery Explosion
• Isomerization
• Human Factors Influencing The Texas City Incident (PDF) (Archive.org)
• Lessons from Disaster: How Organizations Have No Memory and Accidents Recur
• Diesel Engine Runaway
• BP Completes Sale of Texas City Refinery (Archive.org)
• The Refinery Today (Archive.org)
• Texas City, Texas: Google Maps Location
• BPs Statement of Facts (PDF) (Archive.org)

Notes:

• Original version released: 16th October, 2015
• Re-written and Re-recorded: 20th August, 2023

Support Causality on Patreon

Episode Gold Producers:
'r' and Steven Bridle.
Episode Silver Producers:
Mitch Biegler, Shane O'Neill, Lesley, Jared Roman, Joel Maher, Katharina Will, Chad Juehring, Dave Jones and Kellen Frodelius-Fujimoto.