US workers killed at unsafe refinery


This December 2016 video is called The Anacortes Refinery Disaster | Fault Lines.

Unsafe mines are not the only dangers for workers’ lives in the USA …

From the AFL-CIO NOW blog in the USA:

5 Refinery Workers Killed, Industry Group Lauds Its Safety Record

by Mike Hall, Apr 6, 2010

After an explosion at a Tesoro refinery in Anacortes, Wash., killed five United Steelworkers (USW) members and severely injured two other workers, the petroleum industry claimed its safety record is exemplary. …

According to the USW, Tesoro has a history of serious health and safety violations.

US REFINERY INDUSTRY MUST LEARN FROM PAST DISASTERS – insists USW steelworkers union: here.

Refinery explosions rock Texas and Wisconsin: here.

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