U.S. Chemical Safety Board Issues Factual Update on TPC Group Port Neches Facility
By EsqSocial Corporation 30/10/20
Today, the CSB issued an interim factual update on its investigation of the November 27, 2019 explosion at TPC Group's Port Neches facility in Texas. The November 2019 explosion resulted in millions of dollars of estimated loss, shut down the area for several days, and a fire that burned for months. The facility manufactured 1,3-butadiene and raffinate-1, and the facility was subject to OSHA's process-safety-management ("PSM") standard and U.S. EPA's risk-management-plan program ("RMP")....
By: Bracewell LLP