2000 Phillips explosion
1999
and 2000 (as photographed in 2008).At approximately 1:22 p.m. CT on March 27, 2000, an
Phillips Petroleum's Houston Chemical Complex at 1400 Jefferson Road in Pasadena, Texas.[1] The fire produced huge plumes of black smoke that spread over the heavily industrialized Houston Ship Channel and neighboring residential areas.[2]
The explosion occurred at the K-Resin facility, which made
Phillips Petroleum employees and 39 subcontractors were taken to local hospitals for sustaining burns, smoke inhalation, and cuts from debris.[2]
It took search crews five hours to locate the body of a missing employee in the rubble. The dead man was Rodney Gott, a 45-year-old supervisor, who barely survived the
Phillips Disaster of 1989. At that time, Gott was in a building whose roof collapsed but he remained in the blazing plant to save a woman and attend to the injured.[2]
The
Phillips Petroleum be fined $2.5 million in penalties for 50 alleged violations of safety standards at the facility.[4]
Facility today
The facility continued to manufacture
specialty chemicals, including 150 operations and maintenance personnel.[6]
The facility also experienced fatalities in
1999
. Today the facility only manufactures polyethylene.
See also
- Chevron Phillips
- Phillips Disasterof 1989
- Phillips explosion of 1999
References
- ^ "The Aftermath of a Deadly Explosion: A Rhetorical Analysis of Crisis Communication as Employed by British Petroleum and Phillips Petroleum" (PDF). Retrieved 2007-12-09.
- ^ a b c "Phillips Petroleum plant explosion: the latest in a series of deadly accidents at Houston facility". Retrieved 2007-12-09.
- ^ "Phillips settles fatal explosion case -- Federal penalties $2.1 million". Archived from the original on 2013-01-19. Retrieved 2007-12-09.
- ^ "Worker Death Toll Mounts at Houston Petrochemical Plants". Archived from the original on 2004-08-26. Retrieved 2007-12-09.
- ^ "Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC - Worldwide Operations (hotlink sequence: Polyethylene, Texas, Pasadena)". Retrieved 2008-02-22.
- ^ "Docket H054A, EX. 50-1-2-24, 24.0 Chromium Catalyst Users, page 24-5 (5 of 20)". Archived from the original on 2011-05-20. Retrieved 2008-02-22.
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