CSB Incident Description of Texas City March 2005 Explosion

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BP settles lawsuit in Texas refinery blast

On the eve of a potentially embarrassing trial between British Petroleum (BP) and Eva Rowe, the lawsuit was suddenly settled out of court for an undisclosed sum.<a target="_blank" href="http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm?g=4a8fddb6-8435-408c-88b4-d6f27cdb3ad0&f=rssmoney&fg=rss&f=15/64rssmoney" title="CNBC video of BP settles Blast Lawsuit Nov 10"></a> Originally Ms. Rowe wanted the lawsuit to go to court in order to make the BP documents public that led up to the March 2005 accident blast that killed both her parents.  BP’s top priority was keeping those documents and information closed to the public.  It makes you wonder what kind of information BP wanted to keep quiet, as they allotted $1.6 B dollars for the 1,000 cases that already settled out of court.  The Texas City, TX BP refinery accident killed 15 people and injured 170 and is now the worst US industrial accident in the last 15 years.  According to the <a href="http://www.csb.gov/index.cfm?folder=current_investigations&page=info&INV_ID=52">Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board</a> (CSB), faulty BP equipment and staff reductions contributed to the tragedy and BP has already been fined $21M by OSHA.  BP plans to spend an additional $1B on upgrades to the refinery and is donating $34M to hospitals and schools to support process safety education.  Seems like too little too late to me. by Erin Swanson <a href="mailto:ESwanson@enviance.com">ESwanson@enviance.com</a> 9 application/xml false blast lawsuit BP BP lawsuit CSB Incident Description of Texas City March 2005 Explosion CSB incident Report on BP Texas City Refinery Explosion http://www.csb.gov/index.cfm?folder=current_investigations&page=info&INV_ID=52 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 Firefox/2.0.0.16 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 jwuebben 74.202.198.130 false true false false true 205814 false false true false false false true 107530 blog blogsite/Enviance/web