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Chairman of the US Chemical Safety Board Dr. Rafael Moure-Eraso resigns

March 30, 2015John Merriman

March27,2015– The Chairman of the US Chemical Safety Board, Dr. Rafael Moure Eraso has resigned, according to the CSB website and twitter feed. In a prepared statement Friday morning, Moure-Eraso said, “It has been a privilege to serve the agency since June 2010. My wishes are for the continued success and productivity of the Board.” […]

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CSB releases new video of the Tesoro Anacortes Refinery Accident

October 31, 2014November 3, 2014John Merriman

The US Chemical Safety Board has released a video that goes into the root causes of Tesoro’s Anacortes refinery fatal accident, which took place in April 2010. The disaster occurred when a nearly 40 year old heat exchanger ruptured violently during startup of the refinery’s naphta hydrotreater unit. Watch the video below that shows what […]

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CSB finds design flaw in Blowout Preventer used in Deepwater Horizon

October 14, 2014November 3, 2014John Merriman

June 5, 2014- Houston– The US Chemical Safety Board has found a design flaw in the Blow Out Preventer (BOP) mechanism used in the BP Deepwater Horizon rig, that most likely led to the accident that became on of the world’s biggest oil spills in history. The worrying fact is that existing BOPs on existing […]

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Tesoro refinery accident investigation report by CSB

May 4, 2014November 3, 2014John Merriman

May01, 2014– The US Chemical Safety Board (CSB for short) today, under the chairmanship of Dr. Rafael Moure-Eraso approved a detailed and comprehensive investigation report with critical safety recommendations, concerning the tragic heat exchanger explosion and fire that took seven lives at the Tesoro refinery in Anacortes in April 2010. This was done in a […]

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Court uphelds CSB right to investigate the Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico accident

April 4, 2013December 15, 2019John Merriman

Houston, TX, April 01, 2013– In an important ruling, the a Federal Court in the Southern District of Texas has upheld the US Chemical Safety Board’s  (CSB’s)  legal authority to investigate the tragic April 2010 blowout and explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.  It has been three years since the tragic event occured. Dr. Rafael […]

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