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If our science is right, this will be fine.

2024-03-08 19:02:59.40213+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

A fantastic thread by ⋆✧Catherine✧⋆ @whitequark@mastodon.social about "... one of the most violently unhinged CSB reports i've ever read ...

U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board: Tank Explosions at Midland Resource Recovery

Before starting the MP odorizer draining operation, SPSI’s business development and special project manager, a former DuPont employee with 30 years of emergency response experience and at that time a governor-appointed officer on the West Virginia State Fire Commission, conducted a briefing for MRR and agency representatives. When asked by a representative from a state agency why SPSI thought this operation would be safe – given that a similar approach to draining the MP odorizer had resulted in the May 24, 2017, explosion – the SPSI manager asserted, “If our science is right, this will be fine.”

Unable to directly engage SPSI about the safety issues regarding its plan and lacking confidence that MRR or SPSI understood either the cause of the May 24, 2017 incident or the full range of possible reactive chemistry involved, CSB investigators took shelter behind a shipping container (conex box) located behind a building more than 150 feet away from the SPSI operation.

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