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The U.S. Chemical Safety Board is authorized by the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 and became operational in January 1998. The Senate legislative history states: "The principal role of the new chemical safety board is to investigate accidents to determine the conditions and circumstances which led up to the event and to identify the cause or causes so that similar events might be prevented."
West Fertilizer Explosion and Fire investigation - U.S. Chemical Safety Board. Final report ; Letter from the CSB to Senator Barbara Boxer about access to the investigation site; CSB Video Documenting the Blast Damage in West, Texas; Texas fertilizer plant explosion collected news and commentary at The Guardian
Filling Blind (11:08), CSB Safety Video [11] On the days after the explosion, more than 60 agents from both the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were dispatched to the Caribbean Petroleum Corp. in Bayamón , just west of San Juan , to aid in the investigation, said ATF spokesman Marcial Orlando Felix.
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) released its report on the incident in September 2009, saying that the explosion had been "entirely preventable". [6] Investigations by Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) reached similar conclusions. [3]
2020 CSB video animation of the accident. Given the extent of the disaster the Chemical Safety Board examined both the safety management in the Texas City refinery and the role of the BP Group as well as the role of OSHA as a regulatory body. The CSB investigation team was on site 48 hours after the accident.
[4] [5] The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) launched investigations to determine how and why the heat exchanger failed. [4] [6] The Chemical Safety Board concluded that a standby heat exchanger had filled with hydrocarbon. This heat exchanger was ...
For the record: 10:36 a.m. Dec. 22, 2022: An earlier headline on this story said 33 people died in the boat fire.The Conception boat fire killed 34. Following the horrific Conception boat fire in ...
Indeed, despite the Chemical Safety Board having a federal mandate to investigate and report about the accident, Xcel energy went to court to block the release of the report, saying it would be detrimental to their court case. [6] Xcel Energy also leaked a confidential draft of the report to the media before the official report was released. [9]