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One Valve Between Them: How Reboiler B Blew Apart in Three Minutes
One Valve Between Them: How Reboiler B Blew Apart in Three Minutes
Fear of a slow, avoidable catastrophe: a sealed reboiler held sixteen months of liquid propane behind a single block valve - and at 8:36 AM on June 13, 2013, thirty thousand pounds of hydrocarbons erupted, killing two men. What single decision started a three-minute chain that exposed a twelve-year trail of warnings and a missing safety review?
In this episode, you will hear how the Williams Olefins plant operated for forty-five years without a catastrophic incident, the sequence of leaks and corrosion reports leading up to…
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