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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.
Following a series of gas leaks that killed and injured workers, the world’s second largest maker of DRAM computer chips says it will beef up safety at its facilities.
The most destructive blasts have killed at least 135 people, injured 600 and caused $2 billion in damages since 2004, according to USA TODAY. The death toll includes:
Gas leak detection Designed with Artificial Neural Network (ANN) intelligence and real-time broadband acoustic sound processing technology, the Gassonic Observer-i Ultrasonic Gas Leak Detector provides reliable ultrasonic gas leak detection with suppression of false alarms.
About every other day during the past decade, a gas leak in the United States has destroyed property, hurt someone or killed someone, a USA TODAY Network investigation finds. The most destructive blasts have killed at least 135 people, injured 600 and caused $2 billion in damages since 2004.
About 30 old propane storage tanks sitting out on a property fronting State Highway 274 in Seven Points, TX, were tampered with October 13 in an apparent attempt to empty them and remove their regulators for scrap, according to The Monitor Online news agency.
