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Anacortes, WA · Final report 2014-05-01
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An explosion and fire led to the fatal injury of seven employees when a nearly forty-year-old heat exchanger catastrophically failed during a maintenance operation to switch a process stream b
The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) is an independent federal agency that investigates serious chemical accidents to determine root causes and issue safety recommendations. It has no regulatory or enforcement authority — its power is the public investigation.
CSB investigation page ↗Source: U.S. Chemical Safety Board. License: CC0 1.0. Related: EPA RMP facilities nearby.