Abstract
On the day before Thanksgiving a year ago, six oil refinery workers died, engulfed in a fireball when a coker unit exploded at Equilon Puget Sound Refining Co. in Anacortes, Wash. Within days, the Chemical Safety & Hazard Investigation Board (CSHIB) sent its chief investigator to the site to determine the accident's cause. However, now, more than a year later, a report by CSHIB on the cause of the Anacortes accident appears dead in the water. And worse yet for the company and workers at this plant and ones like it, board staff say the incident is likely to join a list of investigation reports the board will never finish. The two-year-old board is in disarray. For nearly a year, it has been caught in a feud between the chairman and members over who has authority to run the organization. The chief investigator who was looking into the Anacortes incident has been fired; the board's ...
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