32: Walkerton

In 2000 the small township of Walkerton Ontario witnessed the largest outbreak of E.Coli infections in Canada’s history. The water utility claimed the town water was safe, but it wasn’t and many people paid with their lives.

Links of potential interest:

• Walkerton Ontario
• Toronto Ontario
• Walkerton E. coli Outbreak
• Death On Tap: The Poisoning Of Walkerton
• The Walkerton Inquiry Report
• Heavy Rainfall and Waterborne Disease Outbreaks: The Walkerton Example
• Factors That Led To The Walkerton Tragedy
• Walkerton Death Toll Revised
• Ontario Pays $72M To Victims Of Walkerton
• The Walkerton Tragedy
• Inside Walkerton: Canada’s Worst-ever E. coli Contamination
• Walkerton Water Crisis Follow-up
• Town Finds Crisis Sharply Painful
• Walkerton 2 years later
• Walkerton Water Declared Safe To Drink
• Definition of Incompetent
• Grandfather Clause

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31: Black Energy

The evening before Christmas Eve in 2015 saw a widespread blackout of the power grid across the Ukraine. We look at how a cyber-attack on electric utility companies in Europe, changed how cyber-security is regarded in control systems, forever.

Links of potential interest:

• December 2015 Ukraine Power Grid Cyber-attack
• Analysis of the Cyber Attack on the Ukrainian Power Grid [PDF]
• Ukraine Report: When The Lights Went Out [PDF]
• Inside the Cunning, Unprecedented Hack of Ukraine’s Power Grid
• Cyber-Attack Against Ukrainian Critical Infrastructure
• Everything We Know About Ukraine’s Power Plant Hack
• BlackEnergy
• BlackEnergy, Grid-Disrupting Malware, Has a Successor, Researchers Warn
• Scary Questions in Ukraine Energy Grid Hack
• Ukraine Cyber Induced Power Outage: Analysis And Practical Mitigation Strategies [PDF]
• New Clues Show How Russia’s Grid Hackers Aimed for Physical Destruction
• Industroyer: An in-depth Look At The Culprit Behind Ukraine’s Power Grid Blackout
• Ukrainian Power Grids Cyber-attack
• Russian Translation: Obelnergo Message to Consumers
• MOXA UC-7408-LX Plus
• MOXA UC-7408-LX Plus Firmware Overwrite Vulnerability
• iRZ RUH2
• IRZ RUH2 3G Firmware Overwrite Vulnerability
• NCCIC: Ukrainian Power Attack
• US Wants To Isolate Power Grids With ‘Retro’ Technology To Limit Cyber-attacks
• LinkedIn Is A Hacker’s Dream Tool

 

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30: Tim Maia

As part of Rio's preparations for the Olympics in 2016 a cycling pathway was built adjacent to a narrow, congested roadway along a picturesque shoreline. When a section collapsed only months before the opening ceremony killing two people, the world looked on with growing concerns about the imminent Olympics.
With John Chidgey.

Links of potential interest:

• Deaths on Collapsed Rio de Janeiro Bike Path Deal Safety Blow to Olympic Host
• Anger Grows Over Rio Bike Path Failure - WSJ
• Questions Continue After the Collapse of Rio’s Cycle Path
• Faulty Planning Blamed for Deadly Collapse
• Padlocked and Falling Apart: Rio’s Olympic Legacy
• Bike Lane Collapse Kills People on Beach
• Are Brazil’s Corruption Scandals Finally Hitting the Olympics?
• Rio, the Olympics, and Broken Promises
• Architects Say Rio’s Olympic Bike Path Was Destined to Collapse
• Petition Calls for Complete Demolition of Cycle-path
• Judge Orders Closure of Rio Cycleway

Photo Gallery Links:

• Gallery of A Stretch of Rio de Janeiro’s Tim Maia Bike Path Collapses
• The Collapsed Area of the new Cycle Lane

Links of Interest (Portuguese):

• Queda da Ciclovia: Doações à campanhas feitas pela CONCREMAT e os Grandes Jogos
• Tweet: “‘Podre, tem que fazer tudo outra vez’, diz vice-prefeito sobre ciclovia Tim Maia, no Rio”
• PETIÇÃO PARA A DEMOLIÇÃO DA CICLOVIA DA AVENIDA NIEMEYER

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29: Flight 1549

In 2009 an AirBus A320 departing LaGuardia Airport in New York suffered a dual engine failure due to a bird strike during takeoff. In a highly improbable event an equally highly improbable landing in the Hudson River shocked and amazed the world. We look at what went right on Flight 1549.
With John Chidgey.

Links of potential interest:

• US Airways Flight 1549
• The Miracle On The Hudson
• NTSB Official Report (PDF)
• 49 CFR 830.2 Definitions
• CFM International CFM56
• Chesley Sullenberger
• Jeff Skiles
• What the ‘Sully’ Movie Gets Wrong
• LaGuardia Airport Diagram
• Cold Water Survival
• Medium Flocking Bird Test at Climb Condition

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28: Hotel New World

In 1986 an unremarkable building in Singapore collapsed killing dozens of people. We look at how the supervision of the construction and the design itself resulted in a structure that was at best critically stable, and ultimately one that could only ever fail.
With John Chidgey.

Prior Episode References:

• Causality Episode 5: Maccabiah
• Causality Episode 15: Sampoong Department Store

Links of potential interest:

• Hotel New World Collapse
• Collapse of Hotel New World
• Structural Load
• Report of the Inquiry into the Collapse of Hotel New World (Embedded PDF)

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27: Gare de Lyon

On the 27th of June, 1988 in central Paris a runaway train collided with a stationary train in Gare De Lyon station, claiming 56 lives and injuring 60 more. Whilst the court found the driver guilty and sent him to jail, was he solely to blame? We look at how poor design decisions made Gare De Lyon inevitable.
With John Chidgey.

Prior Episode References:

• Causality Episode 6: Amagasaki

Links of potential interest:

• Gare de Lyon Rail Accident
• SNCF
• SNCF Class Z 5300
• Gare de Lyon
• Paris Gare de Lyon - A brief station guide
• Réseau Express Régional
• Brake Problems Discovered 40 Minutes Before Crash
• French Rail Chief Quits After 2nd Fatal Crash in Paris - LA Times
• Train Driver Jailed for Crash That Killed 56 People
• PRISON FERME l’Humanite (French)

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26: Bhopal

In December, 1984 in the city of Bhopal in central India, a Union Carbide Pesticide plant would fail and release tonnes of toxic gas into the city, killing thousands of people. It was the worst industrial disaster in human history. We follow the threads and trace back the root causes behind the incident at Bhopal.
With John Chidgey.

Links of potential interest:

• Bhopal
• Carbaryl
• Methyl isocyanate
• Bhopal Chronology [PDF]
• LABOR REPORT ON BHOPAL CITES PLANT MODIFICATION
• Eight convicted over India gas disaster

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25: Deepwater Horizon

In 2010 an Oil Drilling Rig suffered a catastrophic well blowout, killing 11 people, destroying the rig and leading to the worst maritime oil spill in history. It all happened a few hours after the well was declared safe and ready for handover. We look at the human and financial factors that led to the incident at Macondo.
With John Chidgey.

Links of potential interest:

• Deepwater Drilling
• Semi-submersible Platform
• Macondo Prospect
• Macondo Prospect Gulf of Mexico
• Deepwater Horizon MC252 Data ERMA
• Tool Pusher
• Blowout (well drilling)
• Deepwater Horizon Explosion
• BP Oil Spill Report As It Happened
• How Prepared Are We For the Next Major Oil Spill
• Oil Spill Day 100 The 11 Men Who Died On The Deepwater Horizon
• Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
• Letter To BP CEO Tony Hayward
• BP Manager Ignored Warnings Before Deepwater Horizon Blew
• BP And The Deepwater Horizon Disaster Of 2010
• DeepWater Horizon Explosion Was No Surprise
• Minerals Management Service
• Muster And Evacuation Regulation
• GPO Oil Commission
• BP Guilty Verdict
• BP Deepwater Horizon Costs Balloon To $65B USD

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24: Columbia

In 2003 the Space Shuttle Columbia launched successfully but after its mission was completed burned up on re-entry with the loss of all onboard. We look at how normalisation of deviation blinded many at NASA to a risk that had existed since 1981.
With John Chidgey.

Links of potential interest:

• Space Shuttle Columbia
• Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster
• STS-107
• When The Space Shuttle Didn’t Come Home
• Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster Explained
• List of Space Shuttle Missions
• A New Vision for NASA
• STS-27
• Legendary Commander Tells Story Of Shuttle’s Close Call
• This Is Why The Space Shuttle’s External Fuel Tank Stopped Being Painted White
• NASA - Report of Columbia Accident Investigation Board, Volume I
• Soyuz
• Project Gemini

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23: Kipton

When two trains collided head on at Kipton, Ohio in 1891, it was a wake up call for the railroad industry in North America whose impacts would be far-reaching and would lead to a new timekeeping standard that was unprecedented.
With John Chidgey.

Links of potential interest:

• US Timepiece Industry and Railroad Watch
• Kipton Train Wreck Anniversary
• The Great Kipton Train Wreck
• Kipton Train Crash
• Kipton Train Collision
• Railway Post Office

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22: Chernobyl

The largest nuclear incident in human history released an estimated 400 times the radioactive material compared to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It all happened because of a test that was delayed by one shift, or was it the ultimate inevitability of a flawed reactor design?
With John Chidgey.

Prior Episode References:

• Causality Episode 3: Fukushima
• Causality Episode 17: Three Mile Island

Technical References:

• Iodine-135
• Periodic Table
• List of Chemical Elements
• Xenon Poisoning in Reactors
• Nuclear Energy Slides [PDF]
• Neutron Cross-Section
• Radiation burn
• RBMK Reactors Positive Void Coefficient

Timelines:

• Chernobyl Accident Timeline
• Chernobyl Timeline Of A Nuclear Nightmare
• What Caused The Disaster
• Timeline Of Events The Chernobyl Gallery
• Chernobyl Disaster
• Chernobyl Sequence of Events

Essays, Regulations and Miscellaneous:

• Chernobyl Essay [PDF]
• Regulation for 3rd and 4th Reactor [PDF]
• Regulations and ORM in Chernobyl’ disaster
• Individual involvement in the Chernobyl disaster
• New Safe Confinement
• Chernobyl New Safe Confinement
• Plans for New Nuclear Reactors Worldwide

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21: Milford Haven

A turning point in control systems user interface design and alarm management happened in an unlikely place that few have ever heard of. We look at what went wrong at Milford Haven.
With John Chidgey.

Links of potential interest:

• The explosion and fires at the Texaco Refinery, Milford Haven
• Milford Haven HSE Accident Report [PDF]
• Alarm Management
• Abnormal Situation Management [PDF]

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20: Stava Dam

On the 19th of July, 1985 in Tesero, Northern Italy, a tailings dam gave way and killed 268 people. With the most common tailings dam design in the world, what went wrong and how widespread are the risks?
With John Chidgey.

Links of potential interest:

• Stava tailings dam failure
• Water Management Considerations for Conventional Storage
• Conventional Impoundment Storage - The current techniques
• The Stava Mudflow of 19 July 1985 PDF
• Liquefaction
• The Val di Stava Dam Collapse
• Mine Tailings Safety Stava Report PDF
• Val di Stava Dam Collapse
• Tailings Dam
• The Stava Tailings Dam Failure
• Fondazione Stava 1985 [Italian]

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19: Smiler

In 2015 at Alton Towers in the UK, The Smiler Rollercoaster experienced a major incident leading to severe injuries for multiple riders. We look at how pressure to get the ride running again and mis-communication defeated the system designed to protect the riders.
With John Chidgey.

Links of potential interest:

• Alton Towers
• The Smiler
• How Alton Towers Smiler Crash Unfolded
• Alton Towers Smiler Crash Footage Released
• Alton Towers Smiler Ride Reopens

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18: The Fog

In 1952 a fog in London left 4,000 dead in just 4 days but many more would die before the causes could be rectified. Worse than that, it had happened before and it’s happening again right now, somewhere else.
With John Chidgey.

Links of potential interest:

• Inversion (meteorology)
• Great Smog of London
• Battersea Power Station
• Clean Air Act 1956
• Trams in London
• 1948 Donora Smog
• Pollution in China

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17: Three Mile Island

On March 28, 1979 Unit 2 of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant in the United States of America an incident would lead to a partial reactor core meltdown. Many blamed the operators for stopping the reactor cooling system but the real root causes showed a known flaw in the design and alarm flooding had blinded the operators to what was actually happening.
With John Chidgey.

Related episodes:

• Causality Episode 3: Fukushima

Links of potential interest:

• Three Mile Island accident
• Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station
• Nuclear Regulator Commission renews Three Mile Island Unit 1s License
• Nuclear accident and recovery at Three Mile Island
• Three Mile Island Accident
• Measuring Radiation
• Three Mile Island Engineering Report
• Three Mile Island Accident Health Effects
• Facts and Information About Radiation Exposure

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16: Tenerife

In 1977 on the small island of Tenerife two 747 Jumbo Jets collided on the runway in poor visibility. A miscommunication clearly occurred, but even today, the same elements still exist and it could happen again.
With John Chidgey.

Links of potential interest:

• Tenerife-North Airport
• Teide
• Surface Movement Radar
• Air Travels Communications Killer
• Flight Global
• Another 737NG PFD Question

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15: Sampoong Department Store

The Sampoong Department Store in South Korea collapsed in 1995 killing over 500 people. The investigators were shocked to find just how many rules had been broken but the true root cause might have been something more innocuous.
With John Chidgey.

Links of potential interest:

• Failures of the Sampoong Department Store
• Sampoong Department Store Collapse
• Sampoong Superstore PDF

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14: Concorde

The Concorde was the first commercially successful supersonic aeroplane that flew for nearly 25 years without a fatality and was considered the safest aeroplane in the world at the time until it crashed. The incident ended the lives of 113 people and it ultimately ended the Concorde itself.
With John Chidgey.

Links of potential interest:

• Tupolev Tu-144
• Concorde
• 40 Fascinating Facts About The Concorde
• The Concorde SST Accident Report
• The Untold Story of the Concorde Disaster
• Aircraft Runway Requirements
• V-Speeds
• Air France Flight 4590

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13: Costa Concordia

A near-new modern cruise liner with all the navigational aids and maps struck rocks and sank killing over 30 people and the man most responsible still walks free today.
With John Chidgey.

Links of potential interest:

• Costa Concordia
• Costa Concordia Disaster
• Costa Concordia - What Happened
• The Costa Concordia Sinking
• Costa Concordia Maritime Accident Casebook
• Draft (hull)
• Costa Concordia Captain’s Appeal Rejected
• Italy Court Upholds Costa Concordia Captain’s Sentence

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12: Mont Blanc Tunnel

The Mont Blanc tunnel cut hours off the journey between Italy and France and in 1999 in a fire emergency services were unable to save 38 lives. We look at why.
With John Chidgey.

Links of potential interest:

• Mont Blanc Tunnel
• Culvert
• NFPA - Highway Vehicle Fires
• The Fire Triangle
• Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

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11: Flint Michigan

For decades Flint Michigan derived safe drinking water from Detroit. When the supply was switched to save money a series of events unfolded and their supply became undrinkable. How could this happen?
With John Chidgey.

Links of potential interest:

• Lead and Copper Rule
• Here’s what drinking water pipes look like with and without corrosion control
• Flint Corrosion Control Presentation
• How Lead Ended Up In Flint’s Tap Water
• List of Five Basic & Immediate Needs for Physical Human Survival
• How Long Can Someone Go Without Breathing?
• How Long Can You Live Without Water?
• Chlorination of Drinking Water
• Lead Poisoning and Rome
• Lead Poisoning
• 2 Flint employees EM OK’d river water plan

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10: The Comet

The Comet was the worlds first commercial jet aeroplane and those that flew aboard it formed the so-called JetSet. When they started to crash, the world of aviation changed forever.
With John Chidgey.

Links of potential interest:

• de Havilland Comet
• ASN Aviation Safety Database
• Flying back to the Fifties
• Frank Whittle
• Effects of high altitude on humans
• Material Fatigue
• de Havilland
• BOAC Flight 781
• Disaster in the Air
• Non-destructive Testing Applications in Commercial Aircraft Maintenance

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9: Hindenburg

The largest airship ever constructed burst into flames when trying to land in 1937 in New Jersey in what has become one of the most striking disasters of modern times.
With John Chidgey.

Links of potential interest:

• LZ 129 Hindenburg
• Hindenburg Disaster
• R101
• Flash Point
• Hindenburg Passenger Ticket
• Herbert Morrison

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8: Challenger

The Challenger Space Shuttle was directed to launch on the coldest day on record in Florida and 73 seconds after launch it exploded but the engineers saw it coming.
With John Chidgey.

Links of potential interest:

• The Challenger Crew Plunged to Their Deaths
• Moonraker - IMDb
• Space Shuttle
• Space Shuttle Challenger
• Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
• NASA Shuttle Missions
• List of Space Shuttle Missions
• Thiokol
• Challenger: Twenty Years Later, Lessons Never Learned
• Space Ship Two
• Max Q
• The Challenger Launch Decision
• Weather and the Shuttle Challenger Disaster
• Weather Source: 1986 January
• “Star Trek: The Next Generation” Time’s Arrow: Part 1 (TV Episode 1992) - Quotes - IMDb
• Challenger Shuttle Engineer Sheds 30 Years Of Guilt

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7: Piper Alpha

The Piper Oil field in the North Sea became the site of one of the worst Offshore Oil Rig disasters in history when Piper Platform Alpha went up in flames.
With John Chidgey.

Links of potential interest:

• Human Factors and Ergonomics for Shift Handover
• Piper Alpha
• Natural-gas Condensate

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6: Amagasaki

The Amagasaki rail crash was entirely caused by human error but was it a fear of punishment by the company that was ultimately the cause.
With John Chidgey.

Links of potential interest:

• Amagasaki Rail Crash
• Fukuchiyama Line
• ICAO - Annexes Booklet
• ICAO - Personnel Licensing FAQ
• JTSB Accident Report English Extract
• Aircraft and Railway Accidents Investigation Commission
• Fatigue
• JR West Punished Staff

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5: Maccabiah

The 15th Maccabiah Games in 1997 had a temporary bridge for the opening ceremony. The world was shocked when it failed and it did so on every level.
With John Chidgey.

Links of potential interest:

• 1997 Maccabiah Games
• Maccabiah Games
• The Maccabiah Bridge Collapse
• Google Maps: The Site of the Disaster
• Australia/Israel Review: The Bridge Too Far
• Phil Moss Recalls the Tragic Death of Four Aussies…
• Maccabiah Tragedy
• Australian Jews blast Rehiring of Officials Responsible for the Maccabiah Tragedy
• Stage Design Israel
• American Jewish Year
• Maccabiah Bridge Collapse: Initial Investigations |
• The Jewish Olympics: The History of the Maccabiah Games

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4: Titanic

The Titanic famously sank on her maiden voyage with a huge loss of life. No ship is unsinkable.
With John Chidgey.

Links of potential interest:

• List of Ships Sunk by Icebergs
• Titanic Timeline
• Time Line
• Titanic: The Myth of the Unsinkable Ship
• Seamen’s Act
• RMS Titanic
• Titanic Facts: Statistics about The Sinking of the Ship
• Lifeboats of the RMS Titanic
• Was the Titanic Ever Publicised as Unsinkable?
• Why Did People Believe Titanic Was Unsinkable?
• Titanic Deckplans : Tank Top
• RMS Republic
• International Ice Patrol

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3: Fukushima

What went wrong with Fukushima 1 Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in 2011.
With John Chidgey.

Links of potential interest:

• List of Nuclear Power Stations
• Nuclear Reactor
• Water for Power Plant Cooling
• Why Fukushima Was Preventable
• Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster
• 2011 Toøhoku Earthquake and Tsunami
• Soøma, Fukushima
• Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
• S.C.R.A.M.
• Chicago Pile-1
• Zirconium Alloy
• Review of the Oxidation Rate of Zirconium Alloys
• IAEA Warned Japan Over Nuclear Quake Risk
• Timeline for the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident
• Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency
• Fukushima Accident
• The Fukushima Wasteland
• Electricity Generation

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2: Don't Roll On Me

Roll cages in cars are supposed to improve safety but do they actually cause the problem they're trying to protect you from?
With John Chidgey.

Links of potential interest:

• Rollover
• A METHODOLOGY FOR ESTIMATING VEHICLE ROLLOVER PROPENSITY THAT COMBINES STABILITY FACTOR AND HANDLING METRICS (PDF)
• Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) | National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
• Center of Mass
• CDC Mining Risks
• Traffic Safety Facts: Pedestrians
• U.S Census Bureau Population Estimates (2004)
• List of Motor Vehicle Deaths in U.S. by Year
• Safety Cell 6 Point Internal ROPS
• BHP Accused of Rolling Over on Vehicle Safety
• Operator Roll-over Protection on Small Vehicles
• Roll-over Protection Structure
• ANCAP Frequently Asked Questions
• 5 Star ANCAP Rating Changes to BMA Site Vehicles (PDF)
• Follow Up Evaluation of Electronic Stability Control Effectiveness in Australasia
• Tilt test (vehicle safety test)

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1: BP Texas City

The BP Texas City Oil Refinery disaster in 2005 shocked the world. With 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
• Lessons from Disaster: How Organizations Have No Memory and Accidents Recur
• Diesel Engine Runaway
• BP Completes Sale of Texas City Refinery
• The Refinery Today
• Texas City, Texas: Google Maps Location
• BPs Statement of Facts

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