Anthony “RG” Gonzales is a superintendent with Ref-Chem, an oil and gas support company. He and his crew were about to weld a piece of metal inside the Navitas Plant in West Texas when they smelled gas.
Test monitor alarms from Navitas and the Ref-Chem team confirmed there was a leak 3 to 4 feet away from where they were going to weld. The Navitas staff put a wet blanket on top of the leak and deemed it safe, but RG refused to let his six-member crew work under those conditions. He said, “No, it’s not good enough for me and I refuse to work until it is 100 percent safe!”