Jun 9, 2026 · 47 min · 10 segments
"Paper is not real safety. Just the acknowledgement that you've had training doesn't mean that worker has the knowledge, skills, and abilities to go out there and perform their job safely. That's the…
James JunkinHost
Logan F. MartinHost
There have been incident after incident after incident involving things like contractor management.
mechanical integrity, energy isolation, and the latest rip from our headlines involves, you know, still missing victims from the Nippon DynaWave plant in Longview.
So typically you see these things later in the year, right? When we're doing turnarounds, we've got outages going, extended maintenance periods, new contractors coming on board.
But really, in the month of May, several incidents that involved really dangerous chemicals.
So I would say, you know, from a safety perspective, I think not only do we need to protect workers, we need to think about defending the fence line.
I mean, we just had, what, in California, 50,000 residents had to be evacuated from their homes because of runaway chemical reaction in a tank.
So anyway, this incident from Washington out in Longview in Washington State, this paper mill explosion, I think as many as 11 people have been killed.
A lot of these facilities and, you know, when I used to work in environmental, in the environmental world and, you know, doing all these kind of looking around the neighborhood to see what's going on, looking at, you know, who was having releases.
I don't think people realize that we have built up around historic facilities.
And that that's what we're seeing now are these these chemical explosions, tanks, facilities that are storing, you know, Boku chemicals.
And they're sitting in the middle of residential neighborhoods and they are they are old enough that there should have been, you know, upgrades to a lot of these facilities.
There have been incident after incident after incident involving things like contractor management.
mechanical integrity, energy isolation, and the latest rip from our headlines involves, you know, still missing victims from the Nippon DynaWave plant in Longview.
So typically you see these things later in the year, right? When we're doing turnarounds, we've got outages going, extended maintenance periods, new contractors coming on board.
But really, in the month of May, several incidents that involved really dangerous chemicals.
So I would say, you know, from a safety perspective, I think not only do we need to protect workers, we need to think about defending the fence line.
I mean, we just had, what, in California, 50,000 residents had to be evacuated from their homes because of runaway chemical reaction in a tank.
So anyway, this incident from Washington out in Longview in Washington State, this paper mill explosion, I think as many as 11 people have been killed.
A lot of these facilities and, you know, when I used to work in environmental, in the environmental world and, you know, doing all these kind of looking around the neighborhood to see what's going on, looking at, you know, who was having releases.
I don't think people realize that we have built up around historic facilities.
And that that's what we're seeing now are these these chemical explosions, tanks, facilities that are storing, you know, Boku chemicals.
And they're sitting in the middle of residential neighborhoods and they are they are old enough that there should have been, you know, upgrades to a lot of these facilities.
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