Failure to learn : the BP Texas City refinery disaster / Andrew Hopkins
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TextPublication details: Sydney, N.S.W. : CCH Australia, 2008Description: x, 186 p. ; 23 cmISBN: - 9781921322440 (pbk.)
- British Petroleum Company. Texas City -- Explosion, 2005
- Esso Australia. Longford Plant -- Explosion, 1998
- Petroleum refineries -- Accidents -- Texas -- Texas City
- Petroleum refineries -- Texas -- Texas City -- Safety measures
- Industrial accidents -- Investigation -- Texas -- Texas City
- Gas industry -- Accidents -- Victoria -- La Trobe River Valley
- Gas industry -- Victoria -- La Trobe River Valley -- Safety measures
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UMPLIB GAMBANG | TP690.3 .H67 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0000079351 |
Includes bibliographical references and index
"This book discusses the causes of a major explosion at the Texas City Oil Refinery on March 23, 2005. The explosion killed 15 workers and injured more than 170 others. Failure to Learn also analyses the similarities between this event and the Longford Gas Plant explosion in Victoria in 1998."--Provided by publisher