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Locked Gate, Eight-Hundred-Foot Flames: The Point Comfort Disaster
Locked Gate, Eight-Hundred-Foot Flames: The Point Comfort Disaster
A single 1.9-inch hole in a propylene pipeline turned into an 800-foot wall of fire within two minutes, visible for miles and burning for five days - but investigators later found that every condition that made it catastrophic had been documented and left unaddressed. How did a regulated plant with repeated warnings become the scene of one of the Gulf Coast’s most massive industrial blazes?
In this episode, we outline the sequence of failures, the human decisions, and the design choices that shaped the Formosa Plastics…
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