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The Day BP Ignored Warnings and Fifteen Men Died
The Day BP Ignored Warnings and Fifteen Men Died
A refinery making roughly $100 million a month ignored written warnings for over a decade while alarms, relief systems, and staffing eroded - and on March 23, 2005, a 170-foot tower vomited 51,900 gallons of volatile raffinate, killing 15 people in seconds. Who kept documenting the risks, who dismissed them, and why did no evacuation alarm sound as trailers sat within the blast radius?
In this episode, we walk through the sequence of decisions, degraded equipment, and ignored audits that led to the disaster at the BP Texas City refinery, and…
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