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Posted on 04/03/2010 8:39:43 AM PDT by luckymom
SEATTLE -- A fifth victim has died following a fiery blast at the Tesoro Refinery.
On Friday night, Tesoro officials announced Donna Van Druemel, 36, succumbed to her injuries at Harborview Medical Center at approximately 7 p.m.
Druemel was one of four workers who were airlifted to the hospital with burns covering most of their bodies.
Another victim, 29-year-old Kathryn Powell, died at the hospital Friday morning. Doctors said she had sustained severe burns, and her husband reportedly appeared to be in a state of shock.
Two others are being treated at the hospital. Matt Gumble, 34, and Lew Janz, 41, are in critical condition. Three others - Matthew C. Bowen, 31, of Arlington; Darrin J. Hoines, 43, of Ferndale; and Daniel J. Aldridge, 50, of Anacortes - were found dead at the scene of the explosion...
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RIP.
Any ideas of the cause? Isn’t this the second time this has happened there?
I work in refineries a lot. Very scary places - everything there will burn you, eat through your skin, or blow you up. Seen some incidents during turnarounds where only luck prevented accidents like this (having the wrong line blinded going to a flare stack was a recent one - the correct line had a piece of visclean taped over the end).
Not even Nomex can save you in really bad incidents.
I agree that refineries are a bit scary. This particular refinery is a customer of mine and my heart goes out to everyone up there. Last fall I had to go up on one of their furnace stacks and more than once while I was up there, I thought about ‘what if’.
"Look , there's nothin' here that won't kill you!"
That gives you the respect and fear you need, sort'a'like religion.
Anyway, they talk a good talk about safety, put up a lot of signs etc., but every year they try to get by with less(employees and everything) , so there's gonna be more of this.
Ironically, when my Grandfather worked at our refinery , he was one of over 3000 employees(and that was when gas was almost free), now they're complaining 500 is too many.
May their souls and all the souls of the faithful departed through the Mercy of God rest in peace. Amen.
Prayers for their families.
“Put up signs” The idea that you could put up a sign and create “safety” has always pissed me off. They have no idea what so ever about creating a safe environment.
I came into LA on a loaded tanker shortly after one of our sister ships had an oil spill. Managment sent a flunky down to the dock who proceeded to chew us out for the spill.
I stopped Mr. flunky and told him we don’t have spills on this ship. He switched gears and said, that’s right!, and we want to know why. I started to give Mr. Flunky a desertation and got one sentence in and Mr. flunky said we should put a sign up on the bulkhead there in the office.
Safety comes from calm, cool, collective experience and having enough good old fashioned dirty fingernail types around keeping an eye on things and communicating well among themselves without too much 'inferiorsuperiors' around distracting them.
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