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I am an employee at Texas City for Bp. Your story did not provide any information that Bp's own investigation, along with OSHA and the Chemical Safety Board reported already. Instead of jumping on the hate oil companies bandwagon, do a follow-up story that shows how Bp Texas City has changed since the explosion. What steps did Bp take to change the culture in a flawed Safety environment. It isn't always the disaster that is the story, sometimes it is the recovery from the disaster.
Curtis Wilson - Reply to this comment
- Remember the August 9 headlines : "BP admits knowledge of corrosion problems in Alaskan pipelines.
Workers had predicted %u2018major catastrophic event%u2019 because of cost-cutting" ...
How many more lives will they take and how much more damage will they inflict on our planet ... before SOMEBODY steps in and stops their recklessness ??? - Reply to this comment
- Remember the August 9 headlines : "BP admits knowledge of corrosion problems in Alaskan pipelines.
Workers had predicted %u2018major catastrophic event%u2019 because of cost-cutting" ...
How many more lives will they take and how much more damage will they inflict on our planet ... before SOMEBODY steps in and stops their recklessness ??? - Reply to this comment
- Remember the August 9 headlines : "BP admits knowledge of corrosion problems in Alaskan pipelines.
Workers had predicted %u2018major catastrophic event%u2019 because of cost-cutting" ...
How many more lives will they take and how much more damage will they inflict on our planet ... before SOMEBODY steps in and stops their recklessness ??? - Reply to this comment
- As a part of BP in southern calif many of us could see the culture of a unsafe work place at the wilmington calciner, people need to talk with
maintenanc workers also some operations workers.
I know they would like to talk about blinding gaslines,also exposure to asbestoes.
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- I'm sure this is the wrong place to do this, but I hope you will forward to anyone who can help. The segment on BP Texas City interested me because I know other people who work in other dangerous jobs and they too face poor maintenance, known existing hazards, and manipulated records. Alcoa Aluminum, a company making substantial profits (though less than the obscene profits of oil companies), is a case in point. At the Bettendorf, Iowa plant where they pour molten metal, holes in the roof allow rain to enter the building. If it happens to get into the molten aluminum, it can explode. Management knows about this but does nothing to fix the problem. Jobs that required four people have been reduced to two. When workers are injured, the managers first attempt to make it the worker's fault. Failing that, they require the worker to come into the plant and sit in the medical office so they can keep their safety record--the injury never shows up. If and when OSHA shows up, they are carefully sheparded about and hasty pseudo-repairs are made so it looks safe but really is not. I know of other dangerous plants engaged in the same practices. If the worker objects, their job is threatened and if the union objects, they are threatened with moving the operation off shore. What can be done to correct this situation? Workers are not expendable and injuries and deaths are not part of the cost of doing business.
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- Mr. Bradley,
I watched your story on the BP Texas City explosion last night. I hope that 60 Min. will do a follow up story on how much time and money BP has put into this refinery to make it a safer place to work and safer for the community of Texas City. I currently work at BP Texas City and eventhough there are always risked involved when you work in such enviroments I feel alot safer today then I did alittle over a year ago. I believe BP should be able to show and tell the world that it has gone to great lenghts to protect its workers and the surrounding community.
Thank you for your time.
Marison Rice
BP Contractor - Reply to this comment
- January 21, 2001 soon after gas hit two dollars a gallon. The great decider was on the move. America grabbed its ankles cause he was not gentle. Most of us lined up for his game but now we are tired of his lies he has been telling us, and are a little sore, tired, and need a smoke. We do not want to %u201CStay the Course%u201D anymore and are about to dump this chimp.
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- biggiemj:
I do work in one of the same top three refineries, such as yourself.
Ms. Rowe had her 15 minutes of fame, and we(you and I)and the rest of the taxpayers will pay for the uncalled for dragging through the courts of what BP has already admitted, so, Ms. Rowe can cash in on the "cash cows", you so decribe.
Perhaps I could understand Ms. Rowe's throught process, had the rest of the victims families were involved in this suit, along with her. - Reply to this comment
- I agree with biggemj. There is a ceiling on caring. Field employees (the blue collar guys) care, but the bean counters still say no to necessary safety measures if it costs too much time or $$$. I also work for one of the big three. These guys need to learn to practice what they preach. Problem is the office guys don't have to work in it every day. They can just make a visit every now and then, point at a couple of insignificant issues that they notice and raise enough stink to keep attention focused away from the real problem, which is management itself. In Texas City, blue collar guys were trying to tell them that problems existed. I read that Alaska was the same story. My guess is that once the complaints got to low level management, that don't work in the field, the issues were covered up and upper management never knew a problem existed.
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