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 PatreonEpisode 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.
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3ª PARTE | 17 DIC 2025 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE
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