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> Prior to the disaster it had a good safety record and met all safety audits. At least one thing that differs from Beirut

• Scoundreller 6y ago
  Though... > When it was built in 1977, the warehouse was outside the town, but as new residential areas were built it became surrounded by low-income housing and > However, the illegal use of shipping containers reduced safety Netherlands starting to sound like Lebanon
  • fuzzfactor 6y ago
    There's a whole magazine about things like this. In previous decades they had feature articles and a few pages of fine print with a couple sentences about each reported incident large or small. Fortunately most were not fatalities but were kind of grim like obituaries anyway. _Man checks oil tank with lighter and lives._ Now it looks like their website is mainly an incident log: https://www.industrialfireworld.com/567881/hydrotreater-fire-breaks-out-at-houston-refinery https://www.industrialfireworld.com/567881/hydrotreater-fire... This linked event was last week when I was actually driving through the massive tank farm of this old refinery which extends to both sides of a state highway which has always cut through. I wondered what that smoke was.
    • Scoundreller 6y ago
      You might like these videos by the US Chemical Safety Board: https://www.youtube.com/user/USCSB https://www.youtube.com/user/USCSB