Spotlight on the CSB Safety Video: Fire from Ice

    Many incidents have occurred in the 21st Century that contain lessons from which we can learn. 

     One of these occurred on February 16, 2007 where a propane fire erupted at the Valero McKee Refinery in Sunray, Texas, north of Amarillo.

     Three workers suffered serious burns, and the refinery was forced to shut down. 

      The fire began followed a leak in the propane deasphalting unit.

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1.The 'flash back of the fire to the source of the leak' 

2. The resulting jet fire.

3. The rapid collapse of a major pipe rack carrying flammable hydrocarbons. 

4. Possible impact of the storage of chlorine

5. Possible BLEVE from butane spheres

CSB Video on Caribbean Petroleum Explosion - Filling Blind

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has recently  released its vastly informative and interesting new safety video on the 2009 massive explosion at the Caribbean Petroleum, or CAPECO, terminal facility near San Juan, Puerto Rico. 

This incident occurred when gasoline overflowed and sprayed out from a large aboveground storage tank, forming a 107-acre vapor cloud that ignited. 

While there were no fatalities, the explosion damaged approximately 300 nearby homes and businesses and petroleum leaked into the surrounding soil, waterways and wetlands. 

Flames from the explosion could be seen from as far as eight miles away.

Note the re-enactment of this incident as it relates to  monitoring equipment and leak detection.

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