WHY DO WE KEEP BLOWING THINGS UP?

Peter Williams from Concord Tank Corporation looks at the reasons for repeated accidents, and what everyone in the industry can do to make a difference our industry has a problem. We have been making the news for the wrong reasons. Stories like these seem to be making the nightly news headlines every few months: September 2020 – Mauritius – shipwreck and oil spill – oil polluting tropical blue waters. August 2020 – Corpus Christi pipeline explosion – four fatalities August 2020 – Pasadena refinery tank fire – tank destroyed May 2020 – Siberian oil spill - US$2.1 billion set aside for damages October 2019 – Northern California tank fire – interstate shut down July 2019 – Texas refinery explosion – 37 people injured June 2019 – Philadelphia refinery explosion – company bankrupt March 2019 – Deer Park terminal fire – area evacuations – millions of dollars in damages Those stories are just a few of the ones that made the national and international news. There are hundreds more of these that have become major local news stories. If you search the local news you will quickly find stories about incidents like: ‘tank truck...