A BP worker manning a picket line outside the oil giant's Eagle Farm petrol refinery this morning has been injured while trying to block a bus from entering at 60 kilometres an hour, union officials say.



Holland Park man Graham Jepp, 39, was one of 36 BP maintenance workers locked out of the BP Refinery at Pinkenba by the company this morning as a result of a collective agreement dispute.

The Electrical Trades union had set up a picket line outside company offices in Curtin Avenue East at 8am, two hours after employees were reportedly barred entry to the plant when their security passes were cancelled. But trouble flared when a contractor driving a BP staff shuttle bus collided with the man as he protested near the driveway.

"His head hit the windshield and then bounced off the driveway," the union's BP organiser Garry Rogers told brisbanetimes.com.au from the picket earlier.