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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."
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]
The CSB released its report in September 2009, saying the explosion had been "entirely preventable". [6] It noted that the sugar industry had been aware of the risk of dust explosions since 1926. Specifically, internal company memorandums by managers in 1967 expressed their concern about the potential of explosions from sugar dust.
The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board has released an update on its investigation into the BioLab fire, the September 29 inferno that engulfed a BioLab industrial building ...
Subsequent investigation reports by BP, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB), and an independent blue-ribbon panel led by James Baker identified numerous technical and organizational failings at the refinery and within corporate BP. The disaster had widespread consequences on both the company and the industry as a whole.
The blast at the 620-megawatt (830,000 hp), Siemens combined cycle gas and oil-fired power plant [5] [6] occurred at 11:17 am, [7] and was reported at 11:25 am EST. [2] The plant's manager, Gordon Holk, said that contractors and other workers from O & G Industries, Ducci Electric, and Keystone Construction and Maintenance Services were at the site when the blast occurred. [8]
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
The earliest floodplain map located in the Chemical Safety Board investigation, was from September 1985, and indicated the plant was in "Zone C - Area of Minimal Flooding". A November 1996 update to the floodplain map, placed most of the facility into "Other Areas - Zone X - Areas determined to be outside the 500-year floodplain".