The CSB reviewed the final report from the Aghorn Operating Waterflood Station incident that happened in October 2019 where an employee and the employee’s spouse were overcome with Hydrogen Sulfide fumes and both perished.
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The Chemical Safety Board (CSB) was established in 1998 to investigate industrial accidents, similar to the National Transportation Safety Board that investigates accidents involving airplanes and other vehicles. The annual budget of the CSB is $12MM and that supports about 45 full-time employees. It is an independent board that does not report to any other […]
As everyone in Houston has heard, the Arkema plant in Crosby has been in a bit of a bind since Hurricane Harvey hit last weekend. The plant makes an organic peroxide which is the intermediate in the Cumene process and used to make phenol and acetone from benzene and propene. Benzene and propene are used […]