10 years after Texas City blast, refineries look as deadly as ever. See 20 years of fatalities.

At least 58 workers have died at U.S. refineries since Texas City blast. See names, what happened.

*Correction appended

How many people die at oil refineries each year?

Longstanding federal record-keeping practices make it incredibly tough to answer that simple question.

The public can easily search data at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which records deaths and injuries reported across all industries. But typing the code for “Petroleum Refining” — 2911 — into the agency’s query tool only reveals a small fraction of all who died at refineries.

Oil refiners have increasingly contracted out some of their most dangerous jobs to companies that are classified elsewhere in the federal system.

The many categories include “3443, Fabricated Plate Work,” “1799, Special Trade Contractors, Not Elsewhere Classified” and “1629, Heavy Construction, Not Elsewhere Classified.”

In the 2005 Texas City blast, for instance, all of the 15 workers killed were contractors. None of their deaths show up in the federal government’s annual tally for the refining industry.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking contractors’ deaths at refineries for the first time in 2011, but still misses incidents, records show.

The following is a list of all refinery deaths that The Texas Tribune and the Houston Chronicle could confirm after an exhaustive search that included OSHA records, government investigation reports, newspaper archives and legal filings.

At least 64 people died at refineries in the 10 years before the BP explosion. At least 58 people have died since March 23, 2005.

Before Texas City At least 64 deaths After Texas City At least 58 deaths

This list includes all deaths on refinery grounds discovered through various searches. Few deaths that appear to be from natural causes are included.

Do you know a refinery worker who should be included on this list? If so, contact us at tribinvestigates@texastribune.org.

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Citgo Petroleum Corpus Christi, TX 01 Death Deceased Robert Wilkinson, 53 Incident Summary Wilkinson died from injuries sustained in a fall. More Information

PBF Energy Gibbstown, NJ 01 Death Deceased Gary Grimming, 63 Incident Summary Grimming, a contractor for G.C. Zarnas Corporation, was killed by a malfunctioning air compressor. More Information

Midland Refining Wichita, KS 01 Death Deceased Tony Losey, 22 Incident Summary Losey, a highly ranked amateur boxer, was working for Boardman LLC, a steel plate manufacturer, when an empty refinery tank weighing 12,000 pounds fell on him. More Information

Chevron USA Pascagoula, MS 01 Death Deceased Tonya Graddy, 49 Incident Summary Graddy, a Chevron employee, was killed after an explosion and fire in the furnace of a cracking unit. More Information

ExxonMobil Beaumont, TX 02 Deaths Deceased Dustin Creekmore | Chad McDonald Incident Summary A flash fire burned four employees working on a heat exchanger, sending them to the hospital. Two later died. More Information

Motiva Enterprises Norco, LA 01 Death Deceased Michael Louque, 56 Incident Summary Louque worked for River Parish Maintenance. He was crushed by cylinders that rolled off a truck. More Information

Valero Energy Corp. Ardmore, OK 01 Death Incident Summary A contractor died while working in a confined space at a crude oil refinery. Valero said it was a health issue that wasn't work-related. More Information

Valero Energy Corp. Memphis, TN 01 Death Deceased Daniel Tittle, 50 Incident Summary The sight glass of a flow indicator ruptured, releasing flying glass and a poisonous mixture of hydrofluoric acid and propane into the maintenance worker's face. Tittle died from his injuries at a nearby hospital. More Information

CVR Refining Wynnewood, OK 02 Deaths Deceased Russell Mann, 45 | Billy Smith, 34 Incident Summary A boiler explosion killed the two employees. More Information

Total Petrochemicals Port Arthur, TX 01 Death Deceased James Keith Hudnall, 65 Incident Summary Hudnall, a contractor with Mason Construction, was killed when a pipe fell on him while he was laying pipe inside a trench. More Information

Alon USA Big Spring, TX 01 Death Deceased Maria Patricia Cardenas, 57 Incident Summary Cardenas, a contractor with One Source Industrial, was struck and killed by a train while driving a vacuum truck across railroad tracks. More Information

Valero Energy Corp. Memphis, TN 01 Death Deceased Nicolas Cuevas, 35 Incident Summary An explosion and fire severely burned Nicolas Cuevas, his brother Daniel Reyes Cuevas and Guadalupe Torres. Nicholas Cuevas died four days later, and his brother was left largely incapacitated. More Information

ConocoPhillips Hartford, IL 01 Death Deceased Bradley Edmund, 38 Incident Summary Edmund, with Matrix Service Industrial Contractors, fell 40 feet from a tank scaffold. More Information

BP Carson, CA 01 Death Deceased William Wise, 54 Incident Summary Wise, of Irvine, Cal., was pinned between a railcar and a loading rack at the refinery. More Information

Valero Energy Corp. Norco, LA 01 Death Deceased Rodrigo Rodriguez, 30 Incident Summary Rodriguez, a Koch Specialty Plant Service contractor, was performing maintenence on a tower when hydrogen sulfide gas knocked him out. He fell 100 feet. More Information

Chalmette Refining Chalmette, LA 01 Death Deceased Gregory Starkey, 33 Incident Summary Starkey was not supplied enough air while with a helper inside a hydrogen sulfide unit. As he was leaving the job, he slumped over. More Information

Shell Oil Wilmington, CA 01 Death Incident Summary A worker with Securitas Security Services USA unexpectedly dropped to the ground on duty. He was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. The determined cause of death was arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease. More Information

Motiva Enterprises Port Arthur, TX 01 Death Deceased Stewart Shaver, 41 Incident Summary A 44,000-pound counterweight tray plummeted from a boom crane, crushing Shaver. More Information

Tesoro Anacortes, WA 07 Deaths Deceased Daniel J. Aldridge, 50 | Matthew C. Bowen, 31 | Darrin J. Hoines, 43 |Kathryn Powell, 28 | Donna Van Dreumel, 36 | Matt Gumbel, 34 | Lew Janz, 41 Incident Summary A damaged heat exchanger ruptured, spewing 500-degree gases that engulfed the unit in a toxic orange cloud that killed seven workers. All died within 22 days. More Information

HollyFrontier Artesia, NM 02 Deaths Deceased Natividad Andajo | Victor Villa Incident Summary A welder ignited vapors from flammable liquids within a tank, triggering an explosion that killed Andajo and Villa – both from West Texas – and injured two others. More Information

LyondellBasell Houston, TX 01 Death Deceased Earl Boring, 49 Incident Summary Boring fell to his death from the tower of a non-operational unit. More Information

Valero Energy Corp. Texas City, TX 01 Death Deceased Tommy Manis, 40 Incident Summary Manis, of Alvin, was lighting a pilot on a boiler in a steam unit when the boiler catastrophically failed. One other worker was injured. More Information

Husky Energy Lima, OH 01 Death Deceased Adrian John Flores, 59 Incident Summary Flores fell from an aerial lift and was killed. He was wearing a full body harness with lanyard, but was not tied off to the aerial lift platform. More Information

Shell Oil Martinez, CA 01 Death Deceased William Maddock, 54 Incident Summary Maddock fell into a water tank and drowned when he was unable to escape. More Information

Marathon Petroleum Garyville, LA 01 Death Deceased Jeremy Nuspliger, 22 Incident Summary Nuspliger, with Performance Contractors, fell 40 feet through a floor opening. More Information

ExxonMobil Torrance, CA 01 Death Deceased Nelson Tan, 50 Incident Summary Tan, an ExxonMobil employee, was burned on the back and front of his body by 212-degree Fahrenheit water, steam, and steam condensate from an unbolted flange. He died more than two weeks later. More Information

Total Petrochemicals Port Arthur, TX 01 Death Deceased Patric Whittower, 24 Incident Summary Whittower, a contractor for McKinney Drilling Company, was struck in the head and killed by the headache ball of a 50-ton crane. More Information

Delek Refining Ltd. Tyler, TX 02 Deaths Deceased James Hammett, 52 | James Dale Sharman, 49 Incident Summary Hammett and Sharman – both from Tyler – were killed in an explosion and fire after a line ruptured at the saturated gas unit. Three others were injured. More Information

BP Texas City, TX 01 Death Deceased Ramon SiFuentes, 35 Incident Summary SiFuentes, 35, of La Marque, was killed when a backhoe lifting a piece of equipment tipped forward and crushed him. More Information

LyondellBasell Houston, TX 04 Deaths Deceased Marion "Scooter" Hubert Odom III, 41 | John D. Henry, 33 | Daniel "DJ" Lee Johnson, 30 | Rocky Dale Strength, 30 Incident Summary Four contract workers were killed and seven were injured when one of the world's largest mobile cranes collapsed at the refinery ahead of a turnaround. More Information

BP Texas City, TX 01 Death Deceased William Joseph Gracia, 56 Incident Summary Gracia was killed when a lid blew off a pressurized water filter system and struck him. More Information

Marathon Petroleum St Paul Park, MN 01 Death Deceased Nick Gunter, 29 Incident Summary Gunther, an operator in the blending unit, was found burned inside a tank that exploded. More Information

ConocoPhillips Westlake, LA 01 Death Deceased Alton Charles Washington, 46 Incident Summary The Gulf Services Industrial contractor was operating a vacuum truck when he inhaled deadly chemicals including hydrogen sulfide and possibly methyl mercaptan. More Information

Motiva Enterprises Port Arthur, TX 01 Death Deceased Emery Bowie, 25 Incident Summary Bowie, a contractor, was driving a bulldozer that suddenly went in reverse, dragging him 60 yards into Alligator Bayou. His body was crushed between the vehicle's fender and a track. More Information

BP Cherry Point, WA 01 Death Deceased Christopher Primeau, 35 Incident Summary The contractor from Wallula, Wash. was crushed by a 11,000-to-18,000-pound piling that came loose from a massive hammer. More Information

BP Texas City, TX 01 Death Deceased Richard Leining, 44 Incident Summary Leining, a journeyman technician employed by AMEX Electrical Services, was working on an idle residual hydrotreater unit, which was being reconditioned prior to restart. He was electrocuted. More Information

Marathon Petroleum Garyville, LA 01 Death Deceased Jackie Batiste, 34 Incident Summary Batiste, a refrigerated butane storage operator, accidentally drove a company truck into a retention pond at the refinery and drowned. More Information

Marathon Petroleum Robinson, IL 01 Death Deceased Dan Gunraj, 47 Incident Summary Gunraj, a Marathon employee, was killed by hydrogen sulfide exposure. More Information

Flint Hills Resources Corpus Christi, TX 01 Death Deceased Ramiro Dominguez, 35 Incident Summary Dominguez, a contractor with J.V. Industrial Companies, fell from a ladder and hit his head. More Information

BP Texas City, TX 01 Death Deceased Ronnie Graves, 52 Incident Summary Graves was trying to connect a process unit to a flare, which is used to safely burn away hydrocarbons. The JV Piping employee was inside the basket of a motorized man-lift when the accident occurred. While repositioning the basket to get closer to a metal beam, he became trapped between the beam and the waist-high control panel inside the basket. More Information

ConocoPhillips Wilmington, CA 01 Death Deceased Mario Vasquez, 25 Incident Summary Contract workers were replacing the bottom of a storage tank when its steel roof fell, killing Vasquez – an employee with HMT Tank Service Inc – and injuring four others. More Information

Valero Energy Corp. Delaware City, DE 02 Deaths Deceased John A. Lattanzi, 57 | John Ferguson, 29 Incident Summary The two contract employees were overcome by nitrogen as they performed maintenance work near a 24-inch opening on the top of a reactor. Lattanzi died while attempting to rescue Ferguson. More Information

ExxonMobil Torrance, CA 01 Death Deceased David Yanez-Plasencia, 61 Incident Summary Yanez-Plasencia, a contractor hired by Ancon Marine, was fatally injured in a fall during the course of his work in the API Separator Unit at the refinery. More Information

BP Cherry Point, WA 01 Death Deceased Nick Karuza, 58 Incident Summary The Cascade Refinery Services contractor was hydroblasting coke off the walls and shed trays of a tower associated with the delayed coking unit process. He was discovered dead and was floating in approximately 2.5-feet of water underneath scaffolding. BP said the death was from natural causes. More Information

BP Texas City, TX 15 Deaths Deceased Glenn Bolton | Lorena Cruz‐Alexander | Rafael "Ralph" Herrera, Jr. | Daniel J. Hogan, III | Jimmy Ray Hunnings | Morris "Monk" King | Larry Wayne Linsenbardt | Arthur Galvan Ramos | Ryan Rodriguez | James Warren Rowe | Linda Marie Hammer Rowe | Kimberly Smith | Susan Duhan Taylor | Larry Sheldon Thomas | Eugene White Incident Summary Most workers had just returned from a safety lunch elsewhere at the refinery. Without warning, operators tried to restart a nearby unit that boosts the octane of gasoline. A stream of flammable liquids shot out from an outdated vent stack, sparking a series of massive explosions that that killed 15 and injured 180. More Information

Kern Oil and Refining Bakersfield, CA 01 Death Deceased Duane Herdt, 49 Incident Summary Herdt was killed and two other Kern Oil employees were injured in an explosion. The workers had been cleaning a series of pumps. More Information

BP Texas City, TX 02 Deaths Deceased Leonard Moore | Raymond Gonzalez Incident Summary Three employees working on a boiler feed-water pump were exposed to steam and hot water. Moore and Gonzalez died from serious burns and the other employee was hospitalized and treated for his injuries. More Information

Equilon Enterprises Carson, CA 01 Death Incident Summary A contractor with Irwin Industries died from a heart attack at the refinery. The death was later determined to be from natural causes and not work related. More Information

CVR Refining Coffeyville, KS 01 Death Incident Summary An employee was using high pressure water to drill a pilot hole, preparing to cut petroleum coke out of a refinery's coke chamber. The drill hit a hot spot in the coke chamber and the water became steam, burning the employee, who later died at the hospital. More Information

Valero Energy Corp. Corpus Christi, TX 01 Death Incident Summary Two Cat-Spec contractors were working inside a refinery's reactor vessel that was cleared previously by the site employer for a planned turnaround.They were dressed multiple clothing layers, including a Tyvek suit for chilly conditions outside, but temperature inside the vessel was above 100 degrees Fahrenheit. One worker died of heat stress and the other was injured. More Information

BP Whiting, IN 01 Death Incident Summary An employee was making security rounds at the plant. A railing broke and he tripped and fell atop a separator cover. He was pronounced dead at a hospital, OSHA said.

Lion Oil Company El Dorado, AR 01 Death Incident Summary A Lion Oil employee was found dead at a bank of oil storage tanks. It was originally thought the 58-year-old was exposed to hydrogen sulfide, but the coroner determined the cause of death was a massive heart attack. More Information

ExxonMobil Baytown, TX 01 Death Incident Summary An ExxonMobil worker was cleaning a temporary filter, which exploded. He was severely burned and died 25 days later. More Information

ConocoPhillips Ponca City, OK 01 Death Deceased Tim Crank, 39 Incident Summary Crank and another employee were removing a vertical pump and motor inside a gas plant. For some reason, a hydrocarbon was released inside the plant, triggering an explosion and fire. Crank died 10 days later. More Information

ChevronTexaco Pascagoula, MS 01 Death Deceased Frank S. Richard, 48 Incident Summary Richard died after falling about 25 feet from a steel structure inside the ChevronTexaco refinery.

ExxonMobil Torrance, CA 01 Death Incident Summary A contractor with Signal Mechanical was electrocuted while installing an air conditioner at the refinery. More Information

ExxonMobil Baytown, TX 01 Death Incident Summary An employee was monitoring equipment when he fell to the ground. He was later pronounced dead from a heart attack. More Information

Motiva Enterprises Norco, LA 01 Death Incident Summary An employee slipped and fell from a pipe rack, falling 34 feet to his death. More Information

Koch Hydrocarbon Medford, OK 01 Death Incident Summary Three contract workers were preparing a gasoline perco treater for catalysis removal – a routine task. A flash fire erupted, killing one worker and injuring two others. More Information

Murphy Oil Meraux, LA 01 Death Deceased Kevin Taylor, 33 Incident Summary The pipefitter with Lou-Con Construction was burned to death when he and another employee were removing a large muffler from a 12-in. triangle gate valve. The valve had been in place in the line for approximately 23 years and had not been routinely inspected or maintained, OSHA said. More Information

Valero Energy Corp. Paulsboro, NJ 01 Death Deceased Timothy M. Tillger Incident Summary The machinery maintainance man entered a shed that was being purged of nitrogen gas. He was discovered unconscious, lying on the shed floor, and was pronounced dead due to asphyxiation. More Information

Orion Refining Norco, LA 01 Death Deceased Alonzo Stevens, 36 Incident Summary The contractor from Baytown was asphyxiated inside a tank at refinery, according to OSHA.

Tesoro Anacortes, WA 01 Death Deceased Johnny J. Rogers Incident Summary Rogers, a maintenance contractor with CBI Services, Inc., was crushed by a temporary elevator at the refinery. It appears that two coworkers, including Rogers' foreman, were trained on a different type of elevator, OSHA's report said, and did not know that the operator's control box was portable and should have been on top of the elevator More Information

Marathon Petroleum Garyville, LA 01 Death Deceased Donald Chambers, 39 Incident Summary The Catalyst Process Specialists Inc. contractor was inside a reactor vessel to knock down mounds of catalyst that had clumped together. As the employee began chipping away at the mound, the mound collapsed on Chambers, engulfing him. During his struggle to get free, more and more engulfed him, and eventually, the face seal of the helmet he used for air broke. Supplied air was released from the helmet into the catalyst, causing it to ignite. Chambers died from chemical burns. More Information

ChevronTexaco Pascagoula, MS 01 Death Deceased Chad Grimes, 30 Incident Summary Chad Grimes, 30, was killed and another man injured in a fire while working at the refinery. More Information

BP Texas City, TX 01 Death Deceased Carl Bernard Williams Incident Summary The RSI Inc. contractor was working on top of a reactor under nitrogen purge. He was overcome by the fumes and vapors and fell into the reactor. He was pulled from the reactor and later pronounced dead at a hospital. The cause was asphyxiation. More Information

Necessary Oil Company Bristol, TN 01 Death Deceased Allen Raymond Eaton, 61 Incident Summary The furnace operator died from burns when oil spilling from a ruptured overflow line at a reclamation plant ignited and exploded. More Information

Motiva Enterprises Delaware City, DE 01 Death Deceased Jeffrey Davis, 50 Incident Summary A work crew had been repairing a catwalk above a sulfuric acid storage tank farm when a spark ignited flammable vapors in one of the tanks. This tank had holes in its roof and shell due to corrosion. The tank collapsed, and one the contract workers was killed; eight others were injured. A significant volume of sulfuric acid was released to the environment. Davis' body wasn't recovered. More Information

Colorado Refining Company Comerce City, CO 01 Death Deceased Dominick Mustache, 48 Incident Summary Mustache fell 12 feet from a ladder while performing utilities maintenance. He later died from his injuries. More Information

ExxonMobil Torrance, CA 01 Death Incident Summary A contractor with International Catalyst was vacuuming hydrophoric catalyst material in an inert nitrogen atmosphere of an approximate 100 foot hydrocracker reactor unit. He fell about 20 feet after getting tangled in equipment and later died at a hospital. More Information

Citgo Petroleum Corpus Christi, TX 01 Death Deceased John C. Wood, 23 Incident Summary Wood, of Marthasville, Mo., was welding in a confined space at a refinery and was asphyxiated by argon. More Information

Valero Energy Corp. Corpus Christi, TX 01 Death Deceased Luis Govea, 45 Incident Summary Govea and another Berry Contracting worker were finishing the turnaround of the sulfur recovery complex at a refinery.They were exposed to strong hydrogen sulfide emissions while working on a scaffold. Govea staggered away, but later passed out and died. His colleague escaped and later recovered at a hospital. OSHA found the valve inspection program, lockout/tagout program, and respiratory protections lacking. More Information

BP Amoco Whiting, IN 01 Death Deceased Cedric Norwood, 46 Incident Summary Norwood suffered an injury to his lower abdomen while on the job at the refinery and later died at an East Chicago hospital, according to an Associated Press article. He worked 25 years at the plant, was married and had three children and five grandchildren, the AP reported. More Information

Exxon Baytown, TX 01 Death Incident Summary An Exxon employee was found slumped in his chair and was placed on the floor by first aid responders and they started checking for vital signs. The employee started his shift on this particular week at 6:30 p.m. and finished at 6:30 a.m. The employee was finishing his fourth day of a midnight turn and went into distress at 6:30 p.m. The employee suffered an apparent heart attack. More Information

Desoto Oil and Gas Brewton, AL 01 Death Deceased James Hollington, 36 Incident Summary Hollingen was found lying on a catwalk between two oil well storage tanks. It appeared that he died from exposure to hydrogen sulfide. More Information

Conoco Westlake, LA 01 Death Incident Summary A flash fire severely burned an employee, who later died. More Information

Citgo Petroleum Corpus Christi, TX 01 Death Deceased Lonnie V. Wright, 54 Incident Summary Wright and another worker were trying to restart one of several steam-fired utility boilers at the refinery. They had tried several times to light-off the main burner when the boiler chamber exploded, killing Wright instantly and injuring the other. The employees had little experience with the equipment. More Information

Tosco Martinez, CA 04 Deaths Deceased Rollin Blue | Tom Rodacker | Ricardo Enriquez | Ernie Pofahl Incident Summary Workers attempted to remove and replace a leaky petroleum pipe which was attached to an operating oil distillation tower. Over a 13-day period before the accident, workers had repeatedly tried to isolate and drain the pipe, but leaking and corroded shut-off valves hampered their efforts. At the time of the incident, the pipe still contained a significant volume of pressurized naphtha, a highly flammable petroleum mixture similar to gasoline. While workers were in the process of replacing the pipe, the naphtha was released and burst into flames, killing the four workers. More Information

Cross Oil Smackover, AR 03 Deaths Deceased Dale Hamilton, 54 | Scott Shoffnor, 28 | Clay Yarbrough, 57 Incident Summary The three contract employees were working on a naphtha tank valve at the refinery when it exploded, killing all three. More Information

Equilon Enterprises Anacortes, WA 06 Deaths Deceased David Murdzia, 30 | Warren Fry, 50 | Theodore Cade, 23 | James Berlin, 38 | Ronald J. Granfors, 49 | Wayne E. Dowe, 44 Incident Summary An explosion and fire erupted at the refinery's coking plant. Six workers died while attempting to restart the delayed coking unit following a power outage. More Information

Motiva Enterprises Port Arthur, TX 01 Death Incident Summary A Motiva employee was spotting and connecting rail cars and was run over by a train. More Information

Phillips Petroleum Old Ocean, TX 01 Death Incident Summary A ConocoPhillips employee was overexposed to sulfuric acid and died from acid burns and inhalation of fumes. More Information

Arco Carson, CA 01 Death Deceased Enrique Campos, 52 Incident Summary Campos was installing a device on the top of a lime slurry tank with a torch gun when it exploded. Another man was injured. More Information

Valero Energy Corp. Texas City, TX 01 Death Incident Summary A Valero employee was on top of a sour water tank blocking in steam eductor valves when he was exposed to hydrogen sulfide. He was not wearing a respirator. He died more than a week later. More Information

Motiva Enterprises Convent, LA 01 Death Incident Summary A Motiva employee preparing to launch a pipeline scraper was found unconscious on the ground and died of asphyxia after being exposed to hydrogen sulfide. He was not using any form of respiratory protection. More Information

Tosco Avon Martinez, CA 01 Death Deceased Michael Glanzman, 41 Incident Summary Glanzman, a Tosco employee, was killed during an explosion and fire in a hydrocracking process unit. More Information

Phillips Petroleum Borger, TX 01 Death Incident Summary An employee was standing by a reactor when it blew apart, with the top separating from the shell, OSHA said. He died of burns.

Diamond Shamrock Refining Sunray, TX 01 Death Deceased Charles Otis Hall Incident Summary A compressor cylinder pulled in liquid during start-up, causing the cylinder internal bypass cover plate to crack. Leaking hydrocarbon liquid ignited, tirggering a fire and explosion. Three employees –Thornburg, Charles Hall, and Kevin Smith – were severely injured. Hall received third degree burns over fifty percent of his body. He died about a week later. More Information

Texaco Refining Anacortes, WA 01 Death Deceased Tracy Giles Incident Summary Giles was struck by a 700-pound shell cover that blew off a heat exchanger. More Information

BP Belle Chasse, LA 01 Death Incident Summary A Scaltech, Inc contractor working on fuel recylcing was having trouble with rocks piling up in equipment and lines. Wearing an organic vapor chemical cartridge respirator, he entered the tank, which had contained sludge and hydrocarbons, to take the larger rocks out by hand. He was overcome after approximately 10 minutes and died of asphyxia. More Information

Coastal Refining and Marketing Corpus Christi, TX 01 Death Incident Summary A refinery worker was fatally burned in a fire that broke out when hot oil leaked from a coking unit. More Information

Pennzoil Products Company Romeoville, IL 01 Death Deceased Larry Kwasniewski, 43 Incident Summary Kwasniewski, a pipefitter, was performing routine maintenance on a heater unit when a fire broke out, killing him. More Information

Pennzoil Products Company Rouseville, PA 05 Deaths Deceased Ray Kelosky | Russell Beers | John Lee Pritchard | Michelle Walton | Francis Gibbons Incident Summary An explosion at the refinery killed three workers instantly. Two died later from injuries. Regulators determined that many factors caused the incident, including outmoded equipment and poor training. More Information