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Molten Plastic at 500°F: The Uncle and Nephew Who Didn't Walk Away
Molten Plastic at 500°F: The Uncle and Nephew Who Didn't Walk Away
A routine hydrostatic test at the K-Resin plant produced molten plastic at 500°F instead of water, and two family members died where a standard safety procedure should have kept them alive; how did a line meant to be isolated end up carrying five-hundred-degree resin? What part of the facility’s protocol failed so that uncle and nephew would not walk away?
In this episode, we present the documented account of what happened at the Phillips Petroleum K-Resin unit on June 23, 1999, including the plant’s earlier catastrophic…
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