MOSCOW (MRC) -- Three workers suffered minor injuries when a crane collapsed at ExxonMobil’s Torrance refinery in California, as per Hydrocarbonprocessing.
ExxonMobil’s refinery in Torrance, California suffered a setback on 20 June, when a 300-ton crane collapsed while moving debris at 9:30 A.M. PT.
Three workers suffered minor injuries during the accident. No reports have been issued of damage to the refinery itself.
The refinery’s flare system was activated to ensure the safety of refinery workers when operations were halted, and the Torrance Fire Department was onsite to prevent the possibility of a fire or vapor leak.
The cause of the crane collapse has not been determined yet, nor is it known whether the plant will be closed while the incident is being investigated.
As MRC informed previously, a 37-year-old contract worker from Brownsville, Texas, died early morning, on 13 May 2016, near a unit under maintenance at ExxonMobil's Beaumont refinery. The worker was struck in the head and neck area by piping that was being removed from a heat exchanger, a local sheriff's office spokesperson said. ExxonMobil's Beaumont refinery processes 365,000 bpd of crude, according to its website. The company also operates chemicals, polyethylene (PE) and lube plants in Beaumont, employing 2,000 workers and more than 1,000 contractors.
ExxonMobil is the largest non-government owned company in the energy industry and produces about 3% of the world's oil and about 2% of the world's energy.
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