Statement from CSB Chairperson Rafael Moure-Eraso on Today’s Fire and Explosion at an Oil and Gas Site in Texas: The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) today learned of a tragic accident near Van, Texas. Two 24-year- olds – a man and a woman, both members of the public --were socializing in the vicinity of an unattended oil and gas production site located in a rural area of Texas when an explosion critically injured both individuals.
I emphasize that the CSB is deeply concerned about accidents at oil and gas production sites across the country. We take seriously any chemical accident that injures members of the public. It is the CSB’s view that states should take proper precautions to ensure that oil and gas production sites are secured properly, with fencing, gates and warning signs to prevent access by teenagers and young adults who are attracted to the sites as secluded places at which to socialize.
In 2010 a similar accident occurred in New London, TX, when a 25-year-old man and a 24-year-old woman were on top of an oil tank in an unattended, isolated rural tank site, when the tank exploded, killing the woman and seriously injuring the man. This accident followed an incident in Carnes, MS on October 31, 2009, when two teenagers, aged 16 and 18, were killed when a storage tank containing natural gas condensate exploded at a rural gas production site in. Six months later a group of youths were exploring a similar tank site in Weleetka, Oklahoma, when an explosion and fire fatally injured one individual. The CSB sent investigators to all three sites to collect information on the incidents.
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