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A Louisiana jury has awarded a combined $16.1 million in damages to four workers injured in the explosion at the Williams Olefins chemical facility at Geismar, LA, on June 13, 2013. The massive explosion killed two employees and injured another 167, many seriously. The explosion started a large fire and people two miles away were ordered to shelter in place....
The US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released its final report into the 2013 explosion and fire at the Williams Olefins Plant in Geismar, Louisiana, which killed two employees. The report concludes that process safety management program deficiencies at the Williams Geismar facility during the 12 years leading to the incident allowed a type of heat exchanger called a "reboiler" to be unprotected from overpressure, and ultimately rupture....
The US Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has proposed $1.6 million in civil penalties against Transco for violations of the Federal pipeline safety regulations. This follows an incident near Bayou Black, Louisiana, on October 8, 2015, which resulted in the deaths of four workers due to a series of explosions and a fire....
An explosion on October 8 at a natural gas plant in Gibson, LA, killed three workers and injured two others critically. Authorities advised nearby residents to remain inside their homes for several hours. The casualties were contract employees carrying out maintenance at the Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Co. facility, which was not operational at the time....
The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality has fined Williams Olefins $194,306 for 32 penalty events from 2008 to the present, including the June 2013 blast which killed two and injured more than 100 at the company’s plant at Geismar near Baton Rouge. The explosion occurred when a heat exchanger ruptured. ...
Williams Partners LP said on April 28 it plans to return to service the four undamaged units at its natural gas processing plant in Opal, Wyoming, which closed last week after an explosion and fire damaged one of the facility's five units. The company said in a statement it was working with regulators and developing "preliminary plans" to bring the units back in a timely manner....
Williams Olefins is contesting six workplace safety violations and $99,000 in civil penalties federal regulators proposed last month for a fatal explosion June 13 at the company's Ascension Parish plant....
An explosion at the Williams Olefins chemical plant in Geismar, between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, killed one person and injured 73 more, according to Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. The explosion shook homes more than three miles away and the subsequent fire saw flames up to 200 feet high, according to local sources. ...
An explosion that ripped the roof off a Williams Energy gas compressor station linked to at least 10 Marcellus Shale wells in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, was probably caused by a leaking gas pipeline inside the station, according to the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)....