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Yenkin-Majestic OPC Polymers Fails to Implement the U.S. Chemical Safety Board Recommendations to Improve Safety at Columbus, Ohio Facility Where Deadly Explosion Occurred

The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) said today that Yenkin-Majestic/OPC Polymers has failed so far to implement -- or even substantively respond to – any of the five safety ...
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U.S. Chemical Safety Board Releases Update on its Investigation of Fatal Explosion at U.S. Steel Clairton Coke Works

Washington D.C. September 29, 2025 — Today, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) released an update on the agency’s ongoing investigation into the August 11, 2025, fatal ...
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CSB Opens Investigation into Fatal Incident

Washington D.C. August 12, 2025 – The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) is sending a team to investigate the fatal explosions and fires at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works ...
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CSB Releases Final Case Study into 2013 Explosion and Fire at Williams Olefins Plant in Geismar, Louisiana

October 19, 2016, Baton Rouge, LA -- Today the CSB released its final report into the June 13, 2013, explosion and fire at the Williams Olefins Plant in Geismar, Louisiana, which killed two employees.
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U.S. Chemical Safety Board Releases Investigation Update into Fatal Hydrogen Sulfide Release at PEMEX Deer Park Refinery in Deer Park, Texas

Washington D.C. November 20, 2024 – Today the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) released an update on the agency’s investigation of a fatal release of toxic hydrogen sulfide ...
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CSB Investigation Finds No Record of Inspections on Freedom Industries Chemical Storage Tanks; Leak in Bottom of Tank that Contaminated Charleston, WV, Drinking Water Resulted ...

Charleston, West Virginia, July 16, 2014— In an update on the investigation into the chemical storage tank leak that contaminated the drinking water of up to 300,000 residents of nine West Virginia ...
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CSB Releases Final Report

Washington, D.C., July, 6, 2023 - Today, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) released its final investigation report on the 2019 tank farm fire at the Intercontinental ...
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CSB Releases Final TPC Report

Washington D.C., December 19, 2022 - Today, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) released its final investigative report on the November 27, 2019, explosions and fires at the ...
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CSB Releases New Computer Animation of 2010 Deepwater Horizon Blowout

Houston, Texas, June 5, 2014 - The CSB today released a narrated computer animation recreating the Deepwater Horizon blowout on April 20, 2010. The video depicts how high-pressure oil and gas from the ...
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CSB Releases New Computer Animation of 2010 Explosion and Fire that Killed Seven Workers at the Tesoro Refinery in Anacortes, Washington

Seattle, Washington, January 30, 2014 - The CSB today released a new computer animation recreating the explosion and fire that killed seven workers at the Tesoro Refinery in Anacortes, Washington on ...
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CSB Releases Final Report into Fatal 2020 Oil and Gas Well Blowout

Washington D.C. December 26, 2023 – Today the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) released its final investigation report into the fatal January 29, 2020, well blowout at the ...
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On Tenth Anniversary of Tragic Explosion and Fire at BP Texas City Refinery, CSB Chairman Releases Safety Message Calling Attention to the Continued Need for Safety Improvements

March 23, 2015 –Today the US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) released a safety message to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the accident at the BP refinery in Texas City, Texas, that killed 15 workers ...