The CSB is an independent federal agency charged with investigating incidents and hazards that result, or may result, in the catastrophic release of extremely hazardous substances. The agency’s core mission activities include conducting incident investigations; formulating preventive or mitigative recommendations based on investigation findings and advocating for their implementation; issuing reports containing the findings, conclusions, and recommendations arising from incident investigations; and conducting studies on chemical hazards.
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Remember, this is one of the things that your tax money goes to, and it is a worthy use of it. Shame that these agencies don't get a larger share, or the power to do much beyond recommendations. Perhaps a call to your representatives is in order, so that important functions of the government, such as the agencies that investigate accidents brought about by corporate suits being cheap, aren't hamstrung by politicians hoping to appeal to those same suits.
Your Safety 🦺 MATTERS... These big businesses make so much money your life is not important, the sad truth is your disposable. A small settlement is all you'll see for life lost . More men in authoritative roles must begin to speak up !
idk who might understand this but why is this video giving the same energy as pannenkoek2012 teaching us literally everything about invisible walls for 3 and a half hours
Worked in a .gov shipyard as an eng. There's a few things they absolutely hammer into your head, less than you'd expect. But the thing they hit on more than anything else? Confined spaces. You know what you're taught when you see someone collapse in a confined space? Leave them there. Do NOT enter the space to see what happened. A shipyard local to ours had to bury 3 people instead of one because 2 people tried to save the third. You can't, you will die. You can not move a body when you can not breathe, you cannot assist when you're dead. You will make everything worse, call for help it's their genuine only chance at life. You only enter certified gas free spaces, if and only if it's still valid and you have a watch and the team who is ensuring it is gas free.
This case always makes me so sad cuz her family really never got any justice for it and the professor took very minimal responsibility for his role in the accident. Safety in his lab is his purview, but he sure doesn’t seem to see it that way.
I worked as a hydroblaster transporting chemicals like hypoclorite from the hyp tanks ..and into seperate vessels The valves look the same but it had a label. Thats how i knew.
I always wonder what companies are thinking they try to save money and end up paying a whole lot more in the long run. Now people’s lives are gone because a massive company wanted to save a few hundred thousand. Still to this day a lot of blue collar companies don’t care about their employees at least osha is more on top of things I guess.
I’m no chemical engineer and I don’t have a ton of experience working in chemical plants or refineries however, I never understand why the choice is made to perform these process startups in the middle of shifts causing the startup to be handed off to another shift. You’re just asking for trouble. ESPECIALLY if the night shift is the one tasked with the startup. NEVER give the night shift incredibly important tasks. They’ll always find ways to fuck em up. As a day shift lab chemist I have plenty of experience with that.
So thats why my American company in Germany is so worried about Safety.... We Germans really just can laugh about the sheer lack of awareness that happens in the States...
Breathing air with no oxygen is worse than holding your breath. The oxygen in your blood will exit through from lungs. If the partial pressure of O2 in the air you breath is zero then you off gas your own oxygen bc it’s going to the place of lowest concentration. Hence people pass out in under a min compared to being able to hold your breath for a few minutes before passing out.
The rich people who own these companies have the politicians in their back pocket. Change won’t come until we make the legalized bribery of lobbyists illegal.
I don't work in this field. I never will I watched this video when it released. Don't ask me how I got here. Then don't ask me how I've circled back now. The answer is, it's 144 and it was 3 o'clock then. All I know is I have a wealth of knowledge that the average man possesses not
Why does this keep happening? Simple -- because businessmen run safety significant industries. A fix that I personally believe would go a long way is that such industries should be formally recognized by the government, and any business engaging in those industries must have a formal board of directors, 50% of which must be seated with individuals with engineering or science degrees, or some other professional certification unique to that field. MBAs will destroy and consume everything they touch, including our lives if we let them.
Another year has gone by and I'm still the only person wondering how drunk the lady with the glasses was. How did they accept this take? She's hammered.
So an entire neighborhood is built up around this industrial area and the "neighbors complained about the noise from ventilation fans? That is a safety feature and these idiots didn't want the fans on? And they are just shocked that this blast happened? Yea it was human error alright, the stupid fucking neighbors who had the audacity to complain about noise!
I live about 10 miles away from here as the crow flies. I was laying in my bed and sudden I heard this rumbling sound and then the walls of my room started waving like a flag. The explosion could be felt all the way in DeRidder Louisiana, which is like 70+ miles away from Port Neches. People’s front doors, garage doors, windows in their cars and homes were all blown off. It was WILD!!! I think within the last year, they have finally started demolishing it.
I thought the use of the phrase "popcorn polymer" was comedically redundant. Then I understood that it was merely preparing us for the incredible alliteration which begins around 6:15
