BP Amoco explosion.
BP Amoco explosion. FYI: At around 1:30 pm a huge explosion occured at a BP amoco site in Texas City..injuries are not yet tallied but several are presumed dead. To us folk in the chemical industry this if a good wake up call!
Yeah, shoot, I work over in Galveston and heard and very much felt the explosion way over here. It felt like my building was collapsiing. Went outside and saw the dark mushroom cloud. Pretty wicked stuff. I hope that there aren't any of the guys from the site here that work out there. I have heard of 4 fatalities, and about 10 trapped in a building out there. There were transporting injurded folks to the hospital here in Galveston.
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No there are not 100 people in the hospital...there are approx 30 at Mainland, and UTMB down here is off the hook I would say about another 30 in the last 2 hours. UTMB is taking in the more serious stuff, but they are not even close to 100. It shook the hell out of our building too. Crazy stuff.
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I just got back from there. (our plant's emergency reponse team went to help). It is really bad over there.
I can't believe someone would make a comment about gas prices, when there are so many hurt and killed over there!
I can't believe someone would make a comment about gas prices, when there are so many hurt and killed over there!
I work over at Choc Bayou BP Amoco on HWY 3004. Texas city is our brother plant. Right now everything is just about the employees families. Some have been touch very deeply. We have been very blessed where I work. We have had some major fires and no one has ever got hurt. It`s been a blessing. This is why we make the money we do. It is very dangerous work. God Bless them all.
i just found out no BP people were killed. It was contractors that were killed. Few BP people where injuried! A friend of mine that worked with us at BP retired acouple months ago. His son works that unit and is on nights. Lots of damage! Just pray!
Originally Posted by beardWS6
i just found out no BP people were killed. It was contractors that were killed. Few BP people where injuried!
Why the heck does that even matter? Sorry if that sounds a little harsh, but who cares whether they were contractors or direct?
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Originally Posted by ross87t
Have I seen that ToxicTexan works at a plant in Texas City? If so, I hope he is unharmed.
I looked around and back in Dec 2001 he said he was working at Amoco in Texas City: https://ls1tech.com/forums/showpost....15&postcount=8News updates:
http://www.nbc30.com/news/4311969/detail.html
http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/...e/11212957.htm
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.j...toryID=7990747
Last edited by ACW; Mar 23, 2005 at 09:20 PM.
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Originally Posted by ross87t
Why the **** does that even matter? Sorry if that sounds a little harsh, but who cares whether they were contractors or direct?
Peace,
Craig.
Ross, that is not what it meant. I was just letting him know if his buddy worked for BP, that he was probably okay. I`ve worked in plants for 15 years as a contractor and now company. I have good friends that are contractors. I treat them all with respect. If you had a problem with what I said, you should have used differant words to say it. If you read his reply you would have understood what i was writing about.
Originally Posted by beardWS6
Ross, that is not what it meant. I was just letting him know if his buddy worked for BP, that he was probably okay. I`ve worked in plants for 15 years as a contractor and now company. I have good friends that are contractors. I treat them all with respect. If you had a problem with what I said, you should have used differant words to say it.
If I offended you, again...sorry.
I'm praying for your fellow co-workers.