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April 10, 1989 – An explosion and fire occurred in a cracking column at the Chevron Richmond refinery. A total of 8 workers and firefighters were injured. Three workers suffered second and third degree burns. February 23, 1999 - A fire occurred in the crude unit at Tosco Corporation's Avon oil refinery in Martinez.
A 1989 explosion and fire at the refinery [38] resulted in a $877,000 OSHA fine for "willfully failing to provide protective equipment for employees." Chevron employees had "repeatedly requested" protective equipment since the early 1980s but the company had refused despite more than 70 fires in the plant since 1984.
On 23 October 1989 at approximately 1:05 PM Central Daylight Time, a series of explosions occurred at Phillips Petroleum Company's Houston Chemical Complex (HCC) in Pasadena, Texas, near the Houston Ship Channel. The initial blast registered 3.5 on the Richter scale, and the resulting fires took 10 hours to bring under control, as efforts to ...
The Park Fire has destroyed close to 45,000 acres of forests ... The parcels include more than 2,500 credits bought by Tricor Refinery, ... who have sold more than 1.5 million credits to Chevron.
Chevron Richmond Refinery. / 37.94222°N 122.39528°W / 37.94222; -122.39528. The Chevron Richmond Refinery is a 2,900-acre (1,200 ha) petroleum refinery in Richmond, California, on San Francisco Bay. [ 1] It is owned and operated by Chevron Corporation and employs more than 1,200 workers, [ 1] making it the city's largest employer. [ 2]
FILE - A tanker truck passes the Chevron oil refinery in Richmond, Calif., on March 9, 2010. More than 500 workers at the Chevron Corp. refinery in the San Francisco Bay area have told the company ...
Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy corporation predominantly specializing in oil and gas.The second-largest direct descendant of Standard Oil, and originally known as the Standard Oil Company of California (shortened to Socal or CalSo), it is active in more than 180 countries.
The incident was reported around 6:15 p.m. at the oil refinery in the 300 block of El Segundo Boulevard.