Silent Killer: Hydrogen Sulfide Release in Odessa, Texas
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
- A CSB safety video on the October 26, 2019, hydrogen sulfide release at the Aghorn Operating waterflood station in Odessa, Texas. The release fatally injured an Aghorn employee who was working at the facility that evening, as well as his spouse who attempted to locate him at the facility after he did not return home.
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Imagine if all government agencies were as competent as the USCSB video production team
Ikr
USCSB > Any local government website
We'd be living in a utopia
Imagine if we let the market regulate itself
@@zach99998 Imagine actually wanting to live in victorian era england.
"Some of the sensors were set to "test" mode, and couldn't send an alarm to the panel..."
Anyone willing to bet me cash that this was done BECAUSE THEY KEPT GOING OFF???
No way. That's a sucker's bet.
Exactly what I was going to say. "Stupid alarms keep going off and phoning me!" Sad, but very likely.
@@khx73 First thing that came to mind.
Happens all the time.
they probably would mention that
on the other hand there probably was a lack of evidence
As a sour gas plant worker in Canada, this is something I'd expect to happen in the 1980s, not in 2019. No LOTO, H2S awareness, and having non-employees showing up on sour sites is beyond messed up.
It shouldn't happen but pipeliners and oil patch people are cheap and stupid.
I guess in Canada you don't know what it feels like to live with freedom. If you hire someone here who doesn't like your H2S, you can replace him with someone who does!
@@jasontiscione1741 what does this have to do with freedom
@@jasontiscione1741 Actually, what happened was a workplace safety violation that was so egregious (the Westray Mine disaster) that everyone was incensed at the fact that workplace safety laws had no criminal penalties. Such was the clamor for criminal penalties that employers became criminally responsible for unsafe situations and practices at their facilities.
Many of the incidents described in the CSB's videos would, if they had happened in Canada, send corporate officers of the employers to trial for negligent homicide. Employers are no less competent at cost cutting in Canada, as they are in the US, but they will spend some extra money to keep their asses from rotting inside a prison cell.
Pretty sure Jason is being facetious.
Also I wish the CSB actually had some teeth. They should be able to penalize these companies and mandate changes, not make "recommendations" which will be ignored.
I bet if we went to this facility today it'd look much the same as it did at the time of the incident.
This is heartbreaking. Stay vigilant guys. It's easy to get comfortable with day to day problems on the job. Let's get back home to our families alive.
Going into the pump house without his personal detection device it is almost incomprehensible to me regardless of how complacent one can become at this job he had to know the danger.
@Big Leagues look a real Russian troll!!
Fuken eh, totally agree with your comment. I always go to work expecting a problem just to be on my toes.
yeah, and if you don't have a family at home, let's get back home alive, guys
@@badmonkey2222 I have no history working eith dangerous chemicals but even I was like "why would you leave your personal alarm in your car? I mean it's not like it's big and heavy and a pain to carry"
That guy got himself AND his wife killed making his poor kids orphans all because he couldn't be assed to take his alarm with him. Crazy...
I love how weirdly hyped everyone is about the CSB’s legendary comeback
Wish they had a merch store
@@ferahgotheassasin Yeah, I looked for one awhile back too. 😆
Yeah honestly good educational vids so there helpful I watched the one about ppl/divers getting sucked into pool holes but also I bet yt ad revenue isn't bad
The CSB found that the number of videos posted on RUclips was insufficient, and failed to meet minimum standards
@@jasontiscione1741 yooo 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I never seen a better yt comment
Those poor kids who sat in the car outside the facility and had to be told, both mom and dad aren't coming home. I just feel so bad for them.
Ikr can you imagine
Breaks my heart thinking about that
Must be hard for them to understand, watching their mum walk into a building then being told she suddenly died. And being just outside the whole time. I hope they have all the support they need.
The vaccine won’t save you
@@jmlasiter vaccine for what? H2S?
What an unbelievably sad incident. Husband goes to check on the emergency call and is killed by the toxic gasses. His wife, worried about him when he never returns home (and probably never answered his phone as she tried calling him countless times), packs the kids in the car and drives to his work site to make sure he is alright. She is also overcome and killed by the toxic gasses. Thank God the kids survived, but...man this one is so sad. Those kids lost their mom AND their dad on the same day.
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@@DrunkDogloltru
This tragedy was so dang preventable. It’s weighed heavily on me since it happened. Aghorn goes to trial on Oct 2, 2023.
RIP to Jacob and Natalee Dean. I hope oil & gas workers everywhere learn from this incident and pay closer attention to their safety equipment and guidelines, no matter how tedious it can become.
Always stop and remember your training, this was %100 preventable. Never get comfortable...
Those children need to be taken care of for life, both parents were lost, the company did not have enough safeguards in place, everything is about the money. get the pumps up and running as quick as possible, who cares if the warning light doesn't work, get that pumps up pronto!!
> Jacob and Natalee Dean
Thank you for mentioning their names. May they rest in peace.
@@BILLY-px3hw They won't, it's Texas, punitive damages are capped, they'll get whatever the maximum payout from Aghorn's insurance is.
This is a regular occurrence in West Texas especially Odessa, there is no culture of safety in the oil fields. I've worked with ex oil field guys in other jobs and every last one of them would cut corners on safety as a matter of course.
USCSB is back, my day is made.
Same here! I always enjoy seeing there videos
Agreed.
instaclick
With a animation upgrade too 👌
@@jakezepeda1267 the animations on USCSB videos have improved DRAMATICALLY
This video is bittersweet. It is a shame that people died in this accident, but boy am I glad to see the CSB again.
Facts
Oof, yeah, i though the same thing. First i was like OOOH YEAH, THIS IS GONNA BE INTERESTING AS FUCK!
And then 'oh fuck, something bad happened'...
LOL! Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.
I LOVE these videos and would like to see more, but that would be bad because that means someone probably died.
Same thoughts. It's good to see another very interesting vid from USCBS, but before watching it you know it's wasn't good day for some people
I mean in this case the lack of a safety mindset partly killed him
7:17 animation is so detailed that it shows the reverse lights briefly illuminate as the truck is shifted into park.
Legendary spot!
Wow that's an amazing detail, great spotting, I can't believe the animator did that!
Surreal! Good eye. 😉
First thing that caught my eye was the wife's SUV. They upped their 3D modeling AGAIN.
God, this is legitimately *beautiful* modelling and animation. The level of attention to detail is insane. Kudos to the CSB graphics team for their hard work in providing a chillingly real animation, and I truly hope it helps to drive home this vital message to more industry management folk.
Seriously, if comments like these are viewed by anyone at CSB, please pass this on, even if you by policy do not reply. Your team is doing excellent work and undoubtedly have saved lives.
They outsource the animation dude look at the credits lol
yeah i was abouta say lol, all this animation is by an animation company that likely has very easy to use rendering engine and prefab models to pull from and retexture
Abbott Animation is the animation company. They are doing an impressive job.
@@qashimalik imho the graphics are on-par with half life engine, and marginally below source filmmaker. and im pretty sure those tools came out before 2000
@@sp34277 Uh no, not by a long shot: these animations are _far_ beyond what's capable in _either_ of those things (SFM was also released in 2012).
The CSB makes the best animations hands down. Its just a shame that tragedy is the cause of their creation
For real, looks Hollywood quality
Looks like they're utilising ray tracing in this one.
The animations are done by Abbott Animation.
Quality narrator too
@@someperson7 his name is Sheldon Smith
The security is the saddest part to me, the mom could be alive if only she wasn't able to walk right into this hazardous building
If only he had taken his personal alarm with him. Then, she would have never had a REASON to go there in the first place because HE would been able to go "OH SHIT" and RUN when his alarm activated. That personal alarm won't do you ANY good if you don't have it with you!
And it is so sad that those two kids are now without their parents. Don't be safe just for you, be safe for your families!
At least the two children survived. Workers killed on the job is a horrible thing but a non employee being killed becuase of total company negligence is horrific.
Ive worked out in odessa a lot over the years. Anyone can go anywhere through the fields out there. Theres so much area out there its impossible to really have any serious security...shit the hotel i was at for my first night had a pump jack practically in the parking lot. The entire city is like that. So much land put there to really do anything.
No, The alarms are the saddest. ALL would be alive if those were working and used
This woman delivers summaries of deadly accidents with the warmth and love of bedtime stories.
This channel should be mandatory viewing for people who think deregulation is a good idea
7:16 they even animated the reverse light briefly coming on when he shifts into park. breathtaking attention to detail.
4:28 you can see every single error light on the dash is on. I wonder if this is an accurate detail as well.
They do not trifle with the truth these folks.
@@DVeck89 Company issued car? Would be fitting to the state of the rest of their equipment.
@@DVeck89 Yes...it is. Glad that you asked.
Oh my god!! I never noticed that; outstanding catch, I appreciate these details so much.
“Safety equipment was not functional.”
It never is.
His personal detector was working perfectly in his truck.
The light on top of the building
@@stargazer7644
Sad bad true
@@stargazer7644 Sadly, hearing the rest of the factual information from the investigation, I'd be surprised if he knew he even had to wear it or that H2S was even a danger.
@@YT-MasterAdmin He had it.... he was trained...
I work in a plant with very similar risks. All the findings mentioned in this we already have covered and more. We have man down monitors for when you're alone also which is rare. This story really hit me hard in regards to the wife having access to the site. Instant Orphans, so incredibly tragic, I hope companies and employees learn from this and sort their stuff out. No product or job is worth your life!
Remember that we all can do stuff to keep this channel alive! Write to your congressman, just tell them how much you've learned from the CSB's public outreach!
Ha ha, he still thinks our senators and representatives care what we want or anything other than their own finances.
@@Olivia-W You are right but it can feel hopeless sometimes seeing all the shit they do to exclude regular Americans from the political process.
Sure write to trump he care for all of us! (Sarcasm)
It's a Shame that the term: "Safty rules are written in blood." continues to be a recurring thing.
Every warning in a NATOP's manual is written in blood.
So are safety rules...
You don’t know what to look for until it happens
@NerdWorldNinja FoldingSpaceTime thats not H2S that was released in Bhopal. It was MIC.
Complacency is the killer.
You can have all the rules and procedures you want, but they're useless if not followed.
There is also the condition of too many and over zealous rules and procedures, resulting in the tendency to ignore them.
That had to be terrifying for the kids in the car, no mom or dad coming back from the building, instead they see first responders and other personnel. I hope everything works out for them I’m sure they are still healing from their loss it’s only been a couple of years or less
Its lucky that they both did not wander in the building too, looking for their parents, and then being overcome by the gas
@@ilvtofo I wonder if they are the ones who called the fire department
Their lucky their not dead aswell.. the H2S detector in the dads truck was alarming for deadly amounts of gas..
I was trained in Midland and my instructor knew these guys. The kids have mild exposure and the wife's dad called the cops-he was on the phone with his daughter as she entered the enclosed space and when she went silent on the line he'd worked enough years in oil and gas to know what that meant
The way I heard the story, it was after hours; dinner was almost ready when the pumper got the call and he headed out to quickly handle the alarm. When he didn't return after several hours the wife went out after him. Wear your H2S detectors-while everybody thinks they know the smell and sensation of h2s, if it's in high enough concentration you will not get that warning (due to it paralyzing your nervous system at sufficient concentration)
I often load at various asphalt plants as a tanker truck driver. this video has definitely influenced my perceived threat at these facilities. I will definitely be using my H2S monitor every single time from now on out. this is such a tragic story for those children, it didn't have to happen. I think about my three children now. I am glad for the CSB videos, but when it's a video about something your job includes, you have to take a second look at your own safety measures, regardless if the plant you're loading at is lackadaisical or not.
Good man. H2S is no joke. at high enough concentrations one or two breaths is all it takes and you could be done for. I once heard of a story of a volcanology professor taking his students out to study a volcano in Japan. He bent down to tie his shoe and immediately collapsed... he didn't make it.
Crude haulers experience this every day, imagine picking up oil 10 miles in the ranch and no cell signal H2S monitor going off you just go upwind to load. Some of the worst experiences I've had have been south of odessa near crane.
Bad stuff back their
Dry the Delaware Basin.
Man if i were you i'd buy a gasmask off amazon to keep in my truck, even if i had to hide it from my boss. They're only 200$, and should at least give you a chance at survival if the wind shifts unexpectedly.
Crane has the highest concentration of hydrogen sulfide in the world
This is super sad, I work in the Permian. I heard about this after it happened. Apparently his wife used the "find my iphone" app to figure out where he was. To anyone coming to work out here I tell you please don't even leave your truck without your monitor, it's nothing short of a miracle the kids didn't die since since his monitor was going off IN HIS TRUCK. Set your monitor to 10ppm, its the standard in the refineries. Trust the guys who work around this all day. Also remember RUN UP WIND AND ACROSS IF YOU SMELL H2S (basically rotten eggs/sulfur smell). Your family deserves it.
But IDLH for H2S is 2 ppm, isn't it?
@@tunatuna6723 no it's 100ppm
I figured it had to be through some sort of phone app. Hell, I've had to use satellite image and draw a map just to get out of one of those damn Chevron fields. I can't imagine trying to explain to my wife how to get on location, even to bring me lunch.
@@cjgibbons5850 So are there homes near these types of facilities then? Or was there just some artistic licence taken by the animation team, putting houses in the background behind their impressively realistic pump house?
@@medea27 Usually they are way out in the desert, but I know of a few tank batteries that are right next to neighborhoods. If the tanks leaked or exploded like the one in OK in another CSB vid (where the kids were killed) it would def be a huge problem. But honestly the Delek refinery is right up the street from a bunch of houses too sooooo.....
I hope those kids are doing okay, what a terrible tragedy
Mum and dad in one night? Jesus. Those poor kids. The thought of them just waiting in the car and growing more terrified as the night goes on is heartwrenching.
I hope they have all the support and professional available at their fingertips to support them into adulthood. So very tragic.
I'm quite sure after this report came out, both sets of grandparents filed lawsuits and probably settled out of court for several million $$$. Based on other similar tragedies.
@@easttexan2933 I’m sure that won’t help those kids feel much better though. Poor kids
@@easttexan2933 thats cool and all but damn
@@Zildawolf you know, depending on how old the kids were at that time, you may not even remember that night much. Yes, it was a terrible tragedy that did not have to happen. Loving grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc. will give those children a wonderful life I'm sure.
The steel in that building is compromised too. What H2S does to steel on a molecular lever is pretty fascinating. In a nutshell, the sulfur enters the steel and hop scotch like a checker board player across the steel molecules till they reach any kind of nonconformity or flaw and the sulfur molecules will collect there causing the steel to become very brittle.
I'd say that's probably not an issue in this case, although embrittlement of steel from sulphur compounds is a very real and serious problem, (especially in pipe lines) like other forms of steel embrittlement from chemical attack its a process that takes a fair amount of time (months to years), not an isolated single short duration event.
@@deezelfairy I suspect that it may have caused the piston to shatter as was mentioned in the video. It is possible that the pump started automatically and the piston shattered because of the pressure caused by the closed outlet valve. Finally the employee was unable to either disable the equipment or flow of the gas until he was already incapacitated.
Would it help if they coat the steel with silver? I used to love to artificially tone silver bars with H2S gas!
@@ThePeterDislikeShow speciality steel alloys help. I don’t think silver would be useful.
Hey i did not know that.
Love to learn new things.
Thank you.
I remember when this happened. Earlier this year or last year. I’ve since quit the patch and left the Thunderdome (West TX) and I pray I never, ever have to leave my family again to go make a living. Sad stuff. Over 15 years, 6 people I personally knew died.
What did you go do for work?
YES! Best use of taxpayer funds. This team deserves a streaming series. I’m learning so much about chemical safety, and I don’t even work in this field. I hope these videos influence policy at the local, state, and federal level.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission twitter account is a close second best use of taxes
Hope always does so much!
Yep and they don’t just influence local, state, and federal policy - I’ve seen people from around the world comment on these videos thanking us for them and saying they shared them with their workers and found them useful. 🙌🏼 I don’t work in the field either but I learn a ton about safety and the cause and effects that lead to tragedies - and how to avoid them.
@@readmorebooksidiots yes. It is clear the free market can/will not handle it alone. Most notable looking at the Dupont Belle site tragedy. In written PMs they state that if we implement these engineering safeguards it would be a precedemce for other Dupont sites and it would have to be done there aswell. I.e. it was not implemented and tragedy ensued.
Certainly a much better use of it than gender studies programs in Pakistan. Just sayin (that was in the original covid relief bill that as it turns out, had little to do with "relieving" people of the burden of mass unemployment caused by lockdowns if you actually read whats in it)
The kids are lucky to be alive.. Being that the dads H2S detector was alarming in his truck for deadly amounts of H2S while outside the building
The alarms go off long before they sense “deadly” levels.
@@nicolasthecaged4940 Yup, it'll go off when the levels are still relatively harmless.
Same for flammable gas detectors, they go off at 10-25% of the lower explosive limit for whatever gas their calibrated for.
Gas detection would be pointless if it let you know after you were in danger.
@@deezelfairy yep. Most H2S body monitors don’t tell you what level the gas is at, they just go off when it’s gets to a certain parts per million. H2S is one of the most dangerous natural occurring gases in the world. You can’t even save people after they have been exposed. One breath with the parts per million too high and you’re dead as a door knob and that’s just that.
@@nicolasthecaged4940 Yeah most the flammable gas detectors I've delt with (explosion proofed zone 2 forklifts) don't tell you the level either. It'll start beeping at 10% LEL and when it's hits 25% LEL it beeps louder and after 15 seconds it shuts the machine down.
My biggest user of them is a UK LPG supplier, get a lot of breakdown calls because of 'false alarms' when in reality their not, the operators don't realise the detectors can sniff that gas long before your nostrils can detect the trace of mercaptan in the butane/propane.
Their use is a farce though, the reset keys are supposed to be kept with management to prompt an investigation when the detectors go off but every time I work on one the reset keys are hanging on the forklifts ignition key.
Then people wonder why accidents like this happen 😡.
@@deezelfairy If the employee thinks the alarm is false alarming, eventually they are going to over ride or disable the alarm. If they have done that a bunch of times with no negative consequence, that will become an institutionalized practice.
I worked as a pumper for several years. My h2s monitor would go off on several locations. I was still expected to do my duties whether my alarm was going off or not. Our oil contained a lot of iron sulfide. To make the oil sellable we'd have to treat each tank with a mixture of liquid soap and muriatic acid. This would cause the iron sulfide to fall out of the oil and collect on the bottom of the tank. It also produced large quantities of h2s gas. The tank bottoms would be collected by a water truck and taken to our disposal well where they'd be pumped down the well and often times blown back out of the well and into the containment around the pump. Then a brave water hauler would have to go in and vacuum it back up and do it again. Sometimes we would store it in frac tanks until it ate a hole through the tank and disposed of itself the natural way right on the ground. Often we'd dispose of produced water by spreading it on the roads as a form of "dust control".
This happened near my hometown. You can bet the community feels for those kids. They’re in my prayers, and this case reminded a lot of other workers to stick like glue to their safety training. Sometimes that’s all it takes to prevent a tragedy bigger than you even realize. I bet that guy never thought his actions could also endanger his family. They did a great job of portraying the landscape.
Such a tragic story:
"Jacob Dean and Natalee Dean, with their 9 and 6-year-old children, were found by emergency crews at a pump house near Odessa, when Jacob’s supervisor had not heard back from him."
Oh noo she brought the kids along that makes it so much worse
Thank goodness they didn't go in as well. Maybe the mom made if very clear or the emergency responders came quick but I think many children might have tried to check on their mom, especially if the bay doors were opened.
@@lendluke At that age, I can’t believe at least one of the children didn’t go inside to check in mom and dad but I’m so glad they did not. Poor kids.
How is them being found tragic, that's great news
@@sophierobinson2738 excellent point. I hadn’t thought of that.
What a tragedy. Those poor kids.
Great CGI and animation work on the video, though.
Oil companies love creating orphans.
I'm not certain, but it's possible that, since H2S has a very potent rotten egg smell, it was thought that sense of smell would be a level of protection. The problem is that H2S also quickly destroys your sense of smell, so if you're around it for a bit, you completely stop smelling anything.
at high levels above 100ppm you won't even smell it at all.
You're correct. I was exposed to a small amount H2S in 1981 while building a H2S plant in Wyoming. It's over 40 years later and I still can't smell well.
bingo!!!
Ever since a UPS battery ruptured at local television station and caused a power outage due to the UPS going down and taken the breaker along with it (we are at the absolute edges of maximum breaker capacity and were later issued a full rework of the electrical circuits after failing fire department tests of the electrical system) I know that those things can be lethal, the whole classroom (local television is housed in an old high school building) was filled with the stuff, massive rotten egg smell...
Just for the record, a jury returned an indictment on Aghorn and the VP of operations last month on a bunch of charges. Hopefully this kids family will get some justice for their lost love ones.
Always wear your PPE. It’s your last line of defense after engineering controls fail.
And engineer systems are 100% a cost/risk thing. If it's cost's more to fix or make correct than it costs to pay out a family, it's put on hold. PPE is your only defense against the bean counters
@@Pickleriiiiiick sad but true. I wish it wasn't so
What's a ppe?
@@moeron9172 Personal Protective Equipment
@@PickleriiiiiickNowadays oil/gas companies have pretty strict safety standards, and an industry wide rating. Have just minor incidents will effect this rating. Having a fatality will really put them in bad standing. These safety ratings are regarded by other companies when deciding to work with others. There's no one out there deciding if a system is cost effective vs leaving someone open to being killed. This type of stuff happens from complacency, poor maintenance, and not enough routine training. It's not because the engineering cost out weighs the benefits of saving lives.
It’s sad that the children lost both their parents. It’s a damn miracle they stayed in the car and didn’t go looking for mommy after awhile. I was born and raised in the Odessa/ Midland area. Still work in the fields, complacency kills people. I’m guilty of myself. Bless their children
On the subject of complacency:
How right you are.
95% of the time, I'm on location by myself. I have no choice but to depend on ME.
It hasn't happened very often, but it has happened- I've entered a location & exited the vehicle... and there goes the monitor.
For a split second, I'm thinking about what it may be that is causing the monitor to go off & what I could do to find out. But then reality kicks me in the ass & I get upwind or off the pad in short order.
I only have an escape pack. Whether I need to use it or not, I'm gonna GTFO & let the customer know. They don't want to have to scoop me up from their location.
Bless em with a lawsuit against aghorn in their favor
@@louisbecker5941 - I would think an SCBA system would be in order. If it happened a bunch, hell, I'd buy my own, if I wanted to stay in the industry.
@@PayNoTaxes0GetNoVote High concentrations of H2S, which you won't smell anymore, will quickly overcome a gasmask filter.
It'll heat up.
@@Wannes_ - That's good to know but I didn't say filter. I said SCBA rig. Like firefighters/divers. Supplied air from SCBA rig. Self Contained Breathing Apparatus
Man, the animator has grown over the decade of making these CGI videos for us! Thank you, ma'am!
I really enjoy these very informative videos by the USCSB, it's always sad to see that prioritising profit comes before the safety of workers in many of the incidents showcased by these videos especially in the case of the large corporations, but then also accidents like this where the deaths of two people could've been so easily avoided especially if the on call worker had taken his personal alarm with him into the pump house. Thanks from a viewer in the UK.
Me: "Hooray, the CSB is back!"
The CSB: "Casey, there are people dying"
XD
It's a real struggle.
Well on the plus side they already died...? I mean it's not like them making videos about an incident is contributing to future deaths. Quite the opposite I would think
@@vejet Very true, I’m quite glad they’re educating people on hazards. I just thought the gap between my (and many other people’s) excitement about their return and the rather grisly and morbid subject matter their videos usually cover was striking and a bit funny.
I had exactly the same thought. The boys are back!
Rule # 1 in oil fields and HC plants:
When you see someone laying on the floor, do NOT try to help him, evacuate and call someone trained to do it.
Also if your employer gives you a piece of safety equipment, USE IT!
It is sad how many people die trying to save and already dead person from a low oxygen environment.
Here is a vintage safety film about that: ruclips.net/video/jNsKGx94_KE/видео.html&pp=sAQA
@@1978garfield Narrated by Casey Kasem no less.
Yeah, tell that to a spouse .....
She was his wife, not a worker. She wouldn't have known that.
I worked as a hydroblaster from 2016 to 2018. We’d travel from plant to plant, in many different states but we were based out of southeast Texas. The last job I was on, an incident happened in the plant and a few people on our crew got hurt. When we got back to the main offices, management tried to get us to write a report on what happened and it was totally inaccurate. They all wanted us to have the “same story”. When I asked questions why, they subtly threatened our employment there. I packed my stuff the next day and quit on the spot. That branch ended up shutting down soon after.
Next time get make a complaint in writing and get their request in writing (If you can). Then if they fire you, you can sue for illegal termination. A company cannot fire you for their own lack of safety, and if they claim they fired you for some legitimate reason, you have the evidence to prove they fired you after you refused to be unsafe.
Happy to see the CSB videos back. They bring transparency to the nature of workplace injuries and fatalities.
Those graphics are top notch, the worker model is almost life-like.
The graphics are about as good as 2001 rendering quality. Final Fantasy: The Spirits within came out that year. It looks better than that.
They are missing the butt scratch coming out of the car
Abbott Animation is amazing. It's a small crew of fewer than a dozen professionals. Amazing work.
Thank you very much! I'll pass your words on to our small crew - animations like this are definitely a full team effort, ha.
@@Abbottanimation3D thank you for commenting, helped me find your channel. Thank you for the fantastic work your team does 👍👍👍.
@@bendito999 Excellent! Thank you and glad our response helped. :D And thank you for the sub!
@@Abbottanimation3D Nice work, but why did you disable comments on your channel?
@@Anton008 We had some bad actors on our channel some time ago - only there to cause trouble, not actually engage in conversation. It was deemed appropriate to go without comments for a time. We have been considering turning them back on recently though and I'll pass your comment onto the decision maker, thanks!
So glad to see the CSB still producing content. You guys are awesome, and the videos you produce are legitimately informative and make me aware of safety concerns I would never have thought of. Keep up the good work!
Devastating and totally preventable incident. Even just by wearing a personal alarm. When I worked in a sour gas field in Canada (only 8 years ago), I was shocked to see how cavalier some operators were with them! Worn incorrectly, not tested daily, a few times even forgot to turn on...
Also crazy to see that with the doors 60% open, it was not enough ventilation.
I'm glad the narrator for these videos is still doing well. I've loved his voice for years.
Anyone know the name of the narrator? I feel i've heard him in several different (non csb) docs
@@xuntdmc Sheldon Smith
@@judepeppers1206 thanks so much and be safe out there!
*..guitar riff plays......
Yeah I just watched some 10-12 years old and he narrated those too
@@Syclone0044 Yeah Republicans are into that kinda shit
Am I the only one who screamed in despair and frustration at hearing he left his detector in the truck?
Probably because he kept getting H2S hits and management got on him about it instead of fixing the problem.
@@MrBrian465 this. It’s always about money being in conflict with safety.
Honestly my first thought was well, there's ur first mistake
Absolutely. I don't work in the oil industry but I've been on a few sites for contract jobs and I always left my H2S monitor clipped to my hard hat.
not a loud as I screamed to learn the leak detection and warning systems for the pumphouse were defective!!!! No Warning light!!
I used to work with H2S in a lab and the smell is extremely hard not to notice even at concentrations less than 1 ppm. Supposedly the odor goes away above 100 ppm. But your nose gets numb to it. So the guy might not have smelled it at all, but his wife must have immediately known the place was full of poison gas as soon as she got there and tried to drag him out.
We have had some great concerns with hydrogen sulphide from a local landfill, for six months thousands of residents were affected, what was significant was the way it entered properties becoming trapped in loft spaces, cavities and even under furniture, although under 2 ppm and much lower readings people were unaware of the issue becoming nose blind only to realise how bad it was when returning home. The authorities are making some headway in correcting the LFG collection but the experience and future are uncertain as we still have H2S present considerably during the Winter months.
I’m morbidly excited whenever a new USCSB video releases…cheers all, stay safe out there 🙏
Your not the only one
USCSB is my favorite minor government agency. Also hats off to Abbott Animation, this one's looking *clean*
Thanks!
The quality of case study animations just keeps getting better and better. Thank you from Canada.
I have been watching your videos for a long time and am just blown away at how the quality keeps getting better and better. I think it makes the message more effective because it isn't some cheesy video with terrible acting that we've all had to watch that was recorded 30 years ago.
God forbid this company use leak detectors that actually work like they’re supposed to?! 😡
Or have an actual logout/tagout procedure. Or have scba gear or proper ventilation if you have to work in an area where you can come into contact with a toxic gas.
We had H2S detectors all over my unit.
They might even have got away with this one if someone had told the worker "Hey these pumps can spit hydrogen sulfide at you, don't go anywhere without your monitor."
Yeah, it's not exactly downplayed in the video, but I'm surprised that it wasn't emphasized even more.
he left his personal detection monitor in his truck. who would do that?
Luckily the kids were patient and didn’t follow mom.
-That would have been too cruel.
It would have been less cruel really, then you wouldn't have 2 orphaned children.
@@skrimper are you saying that dead children is a better outcome? Really?
@@JayPersing there is a ratonail for it, anecdotally I’d rather pass with my parents than lose them both at a early age and be stranded in this world without the people who where sposed to guide me through it
@@sleepy9615
Maybe during the Moment a child thinks that way.
Then they live with their aunt, uncle or grandparents.
Grow up, have children and live a fulfilling life.
Sure, this is a big tragedy, but this chance would have been lost.
@@antman7673 Hey I’m in agreeance I’m glad that they didn’t pass as well, and I hope they can still have a fulfilling life but the depressive Rational that losing both your parents can’t be ignored, after all people have lost themselves over less, and I truly hope these kids turn out to be ok, but as someone who’s lived through significant loss myself and who’s seen others who are close to me go through tragedy’s I understand why the other guy in the comments has that line of thought
This is such a heart breaking incident. Thank you for the video.
I really love what you guys do and how you produce these videos. Thank you for caring
These animations just keep getting better.
they could probably make them in vr on RUclips soon
I’m a bit envious TBH. Being a 3D animator for the US government probably provides decent pay and great benefits. I have no background in animation, but I’m happy for them to have such a cool job.
@@Norweeg The animations are done by a commercial animation firm called Abbott Animation, based in Tuscon Arizona. I have a completely unfounded hunch that you get much less stress working in this sorta animation than in other fields of animation. Like the difference between working at some silicon valley startup vs working at some enterprise tech company.
Unreal, even
No kidding.
I kept forgetting it wasn't actual footage.
Usually they cut between real video and animation.
I think this was all animated.
I miss the days when the CSB would send you a free DVD of their safety videos if you requested one.
I understand why they quit, hope they put that money towards making more videos.
An agency that deserves every penny of funding it gets and then some. Keep up the good work CSB.
Such a sad loss. Thanks to the CSB for their tireless work to improve process safety.
I'm 70 years old.
Born in West Texas.
My father worked in the oilfields. I learned about the HS gas at age 5.
well ,being a part of oil and gas Industry as a HSE Supervisor, I have noticed at many occasions that Safety trainings are either not arranged or they are not adequtae. despite spending huge amounts of money on HSE Department, companies fail to establish a sound and safe working Enviornment. The only reason is Poor Management. Sometimes its the weakness of safety department itself and sometimes higher managements is not willing to pay attension.. Infact a lot of managers take HSE as just a legal requirenment and without that you cannot get projects or do business
I believe the issue is standardization and boilerplate style of safety. Every site orientation I've been to is exactly the same, with little thought to the actual risks you may encounter on site.
If a company had training that was not the same, and instead had a guy with greasy hands on a camera pointing at a pump, saying "hey, this thing? If it fucks up, and you don't have a monitor on, you're dead you'll smell h2s for 0.05 seconds then hit the ground the ppm is so high . "
Then walks over to the muster point and says, " this is where you go if shits hitting the fan"
Going over OHS regulations by definition does nothing for a site specific orientation.
@@Pickleriiiiiick absolutely right. Every single site has its own risks. Though the set of activities may be identincle, but implementation techniques, weather, culture .. all these things differ from srea to area. HSE Department should b innovating the OHS definations and make nesseccary changes to make it feasible for their site
7th safety issue: dude driving around with literally every warning light illuminated on the dashboard.
Lights on a dashboard? Do you know how many women and millennials drive around with as many lights they can get lit on a dashboard? Low fuel, engine light, ABS, low oil. It’s like a game to them.
@@AppalachianPatriot the only light I ever have lit on my dash are "BRAKE" and the fuel light. And whenever the fuel light comes on, my next trip is to the gas station.
@@AppalachianPatriot OK boomer
@@adrianhenle Not a boomer.
@@AppalachianPatriot OK boomer
I absolutely LOVE THESE safety videos!! They are not only made extremely well with the use of animations but they also go into great detail regarding potential or immediate hazards in the workplace. Of course these are made for Blue Collar workers in particular but I think they can apply to many professions as well. If only my jobs would have shown me such videos I would have actually wanted to pay attention... I get bored easily see😅
Your Back!!! You guys make the best safety videos! I binge watched them all while in quarantine last year. This is especially tragic though, some extremely valuable lessons to be learned.
Same
I was surprised to hear that the worker's spouse could just walk into the pump house with operations ongoing. Is that typical in the oil and gas industry?
Yes I work here in Odessa most of these fields like this one may only have 1-2 employees on site at a time…
It shouldn't be...
Yes
Did you watch the video, they said one of the safety breaches was him not closing and locking the gate behind him. If he had, his wife would more than likely be alive
8 years refinery engineer here. Not typical at all. But, this operation seemed very cowboy - which isn't unheard of in southern US for remote 1-5 man operations (think drilling rigs). Hate to say this - but while Aghorn had fault, the lions share of the blame was with employee and wife. You always take your PPE, you always walk with caution, you ALWAYS go with a buddy. Every fatality I know of in my city has been due to lack of buddy-system. The fact that the wife showed up with kids to an operating plant is just abhorrent - as a refinery engineer, this to me is akin to child abuse. O&G facilities are inherently dangerous and at my job even take-your-kids-to-work-day wasn't a thing.
The moment when he left his H2S alarm in his truck just kills me. Hopefully a renewed focus on safety from videos like these will prevent future incidents. So much of society is reliant on a very dangerous industry. I work at a gas filling station and I always hope and pray I won't be around if there is a large spill or accident.
I think we need more funding going to the CSB. They need to be covering many more incidents than they do. You can't have too many reminders of all the hazards in this line of work.
I was just on a jobsite that had many note-worthy close calls/incidents. There have been many explosions/releases near my home that are not covered as well.
The worst part is that's the moment his wife died as well...
They drilled into us how important keeping this monitors on and recently bumped was. They also drilled into us that if someone is incapacitated by the gas NEVER stop to help them unless you have an oxygen source or there will be two dead people instead of one
Think i found your next customer:
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What i would do to them:
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if you look at 7:20 of the video, the company was at fault. i hope that family sued them to the ground.
I'm sure someone has mentioned this before but the quality of the animations for these videos is absolutely top notch! Sad they're used for such tragic events, but at least we're learning hopefully.
Where I work too many of my coworkers and bosses wonder “WHY??” we have protocols, procedures, practices, edicts and RULES….
We don’t work with many chemicals, but with medications, client foodstuffs and vulnerable developmentally disabled adults with varied secondary diagnoses.
Protocols save lives, limbs and illness/injury……
Believe it!!
Thanks for your episode!
Man, this was a terribly tragic story...
hahahaha ,it's fine , it's just "texas" you know.
@@shivas3003 turn off your bias... people get complacent. Can happen anywhere.
@@volvo09 Turn off my bias against white supremacy? LOL no thanks.
I worked in the oil & gas industry for decades and this incident does not surprise me. I routinely encountered widespread ignorance of (sometimes outright resistance to following) OSHA’s requirements and industry “best practice” for ensuring adequate process safety management, workplace safety design, and worker safety management at every level of engineering and operations.
@@networkedperson How tf do you twist this into talk about white supremacy? Yeah, I agree with you, racism is bad. Two people died and children were left orphans
On one of my first jobs for production logging in the Rumaila field, near Basra, I detected an H2S leak at the wellhead where we were supposed to rigup. Informed the oil company, and they lost 4 workers as they went without PPI to fix the wellhead, contrary to our recommendations. H2S training is key, especially that this gas is heavier than air.
What oil company was that, if I may ask?
@@00bean00 It was the national oil co, INOC. At the time we only worked for INOC and "Braspetro", the overseas division of Petrobras had a concession not far from Basra in the Majnoon field.
USCSB is that friend that is so cautious that they remind you even when they're not their in person, real respect, this channel teaches you
The failed H2S detection & alerting system hit #1 on my personal running list of issues CSB would find wrong with this incident. If you're going to go to the expense of installing the system after all, it's REALLY self-defeating not to maintain the damned thing once it's in place. I was a bit shocked initially, to see that issue wind up as #5 on CSB's list.
Agreed. Several of the issues were designed to protect trained people, they serve as backups in a layered defense. That light was there to protect UNtrained people, and serves as the ONLY layer of defense for some, making it more critical to be maintained.
Gets paid at work to watch safety video: *falls asleep
USCSB uploads: *Instantly clicks on video.
It's a damn shame "Staplerfahrer Klaus", "Shake Hands with Danger", and their ilk are discouraged by the corporate safety departments I've dealt with. "Oh no, we can't show a boxcutter falling from height to embed itself in a worker's skull. That's too bloody! We'll just make it company policy open blades are banned except for food prep and personal grooming."
The animations in these videos keep getting better. The amount of detail is phenomenal, especially when compared to earlier videos.
I'm a trucker and recently moved a trailer for a company from one refinery to another in the western US. I had to watch a 20 minute video about H2S just to get on the property. They take it very seriously. It's a tragedy what happened here.
Unrelated: wow the animations have been improved so much. Great job guys.
Your videos are like educational xmas gifts to places I'd never want to work at, but am fascinated to learn about!
God the animations are great. When the camera was panning across the tank yard and the desert in the beginning, I actually thought it was video footage for a minute. Fantastic work!
Ive been to this location when I worked in the oil field, lived a few cities away and worked in Odessa often. Didnt know this happened there until this video. I used to work on oil tanks installing tank gauges. And the only time I ever didn't wear my H2S monitor was when I was wearing the required Supplied Air Respirator up on a tank. H2S is no joke, and I've had several close calls with it. Anyone who works oil field in the permian basin and elsewhere, never leave your monitor anywhere but on your person. It could very well save your life, like it saved mine a few times.
Having worked in several facilities in Texas I think it's pretty disturbing how often people think safety "is for p words."
I'd rather go home at the end of the day thanks. Most rules and regs are written in blood.
I had an experience with H2S at lab. It's pretty fast, no joke. Thankfully there was a colleague who helped me that day
@@yararaq isn't the obnoxious smell a really obvious warning that you need to GTFO?
@@virt1one At super high concentrations it drops you in a second. There's no out you can get before you're dead. At lower concentrations it causes olfactory fatigue, so you may believe it's gone/ you've gotten away from it despite that it's actually getting worse. A detector would tell you otherwise.
This video forgets to mention that the kids were also partially exposed to the gas and they had to be hospitalized for treatment. This could have also been fatal for the kids too, thank God it wasn't! 🙏🏽 ♥
The CGI is so incredibly detailed, the exterior shots look more like aerial drone shots than actual CGI
Imagine the horror.
"Alright kids pack in the car we're gonna go pick up daddy."
Mom leaves, she'll be back soon. 2 firemen come back instead and tell them mommy and daddy are both gone forever.
I love CSB's thoroughness in their investigation as they care about the truth and don't take sides, they tell it like is. My only lamentation is that the things they investigate, someone usually has to die before we can learn from the mistake.
That's why it's said "Safety rules are written in blood".
Definitely sad. Hopefully these videos can get people to look at some aspect of their work a little differently.
I highly doubt the fireman would tell them that. Instead relatives claiming custody would get the choice of telling them, and when.
@@sup2069 firemen already have enough baggage to deal with, they don't need to be the ones to notify the kids. Leave that one to the councelors
I understand some of the reasoning behind the compartmentalization, but the fact that the USCSB can only “urge” and “suggest” changes is infuriating.
And I can scarcely imagine what it must be like to be an investigator who walks into a site like this, knowing everything that was done so wrong, and not being able to directly fix it.
Trump suggested combined them with OSHA who can pass laws and issue fines. That got reported as "Trump is going to defund the CSB and kill workers OMG!!!!!" Even the CSB changed their background (it had been red for years) to blue I assume as a subtle form of protest.
I can see the desire to combine them, it would save money obviously that is why Trump wanted to do it and why the CSB wants no part of it. However OSHA is one of those things that sounds nice but is actually a goat rodeo of epic proportions that does more to enrich itself and lawyers than help workers. The CSB at least make a video every year or so. I suspect that would become a once a decade event under OSHA.
BTW is anyone else old enough to remember when the CSB would issue MULTIPLE videos in a year. New videos, not just video from meetings, clip shows and that stuff. Multiple safety videos. Admittedly the graphics are much better now. I really hope the Lubrizol plant fire rates a video. I want to see 100,000s of thousands of gallons of burning oil in full HD glory.
@@1978garfield I can kind of see both sides with this. The CSB is an independent agency while OSHA falls directly under the Department of Labor. The CSB isn't there to issue fines and take actions, it's there to analyze scenarios that happen in industrial and commercial settings. It was specifically designed to be independent from both the NTSB and OSHA. This is distinct from OSHA which is very much in the position of taking direct, punitive action against firms that do not comply with regulatory frameworks and laws.
I am pro european solely because they get this right. The European CSB equivalent has a lot of respect. safety regulations, quality assurance is so tight.
No matter what the industry, European legislation is so precise and knowledgeable, it's honestly incredible
@@phuturephunk The CSB used to be really good about getting in there, finding out what happened and getting the info out there to keep it from happening again. By not getting tangled up in fines and criminal fault it saved time. Workers were more likely to talk seeing as how the CSB couldn't send them to jail. Sadly they have gotten away from that. Many times their investigations now take 5 years or longer. They lost a lot of good investigators (there was some major mismanagement a few years back) and it seems like the crew they have now has little to no experience outside of government.
Watch some of the older videos and compare them to anything that came out after 2010 or so. You start seeing much more appeals to OSHA and much more complicated suggested solutions. Also notice the videos started come out less often.
I hope they can get back on the right track. The videos look great now, I just wish they could get back to making more of them.
@@dennisklomp2361 There is no European CSB equivalent. Every nation has their own investigative body. Also I can tell you for a fact no one respects any health and safety body in Europe specifically because for every 1 useful safety legislation (that would generally be in place anyway) there's at least 1 useless waste of time, often more.
Man I love the info you give and the animation is superb.
I can't believe how phenomenal these graphics are.
The greatest and only heroes in the federal government are back.
the NTSB and NASA are pretty cool too
@@warrentb1 Yes
Been waiting a year for a new video!
@@warrentb1 The NWS and NOAA also do a lot.
@@SpenserRoger Same!
They're back! Glad to see another video out again. What a tradegy for that family and their orphaned children in this preventable accident. I hope the company was held accountable for all their safety violations.
It's Texas; the land of deregulation. They probably didn't have anything happen to them.
I don’t ever go into the field without my H2S monitor. My company requires that it be on my person and regularly function-tested, but even if it didn’t, watching videos like these helps remind me not to ever get complacent about safety procedures. May the young man and his wife rest in peace, and may God watch over their poor children.
Thank you CSB for these videos.
Gets my vote as the saddest CSB report 😢 I wonder how many Aghorn employees will watch this video or if they'll just get "annoying new job requirements" from their bosses that will promptly be ignored?
The BP Texas City Refinery explosion & Fire left 15 dead & 180 injured.
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The bosses are currently awaiting trial later this year.
USCSB dropped a new video
Us: 😃😃😃😃😃😃
The workers: 💀
I'm thrilled to see USCSB posting new videos discussing new videos. I'm sad that the employee and their spouse died as a result of this accident.
This story really hit me..., I've worked in the chemical industry for 25 yrs, often handling
hazardous substances, never thinking of more than the individuals involved; this shows
the human costs of these accidents to families..., having a hard time thinking about the
children sitting just a few feet away from where their parents perished. I have encountered
the "it can't happen to me" mindframe in sometimes educated, well-trained personnel
& managers many times. They also have routinely put themselves or their employees
in harm's way. Its only just a matter of time..., even one second for tragedy to occur...,
hydrogen sulfide is also present in sewage and drainage systems, be aware
Yep. Don't go crawling into random sketchy drainage pipes
It usually smells intolerably strong at below-lethal levels
@@chriswalford4161 Yes, but one of the effects is that after a short period of time one loses the ability to smell it. Then one thinks the hazard is gone because they can't smell it. There are many hazardous gases which cause this effect.
@@BryanTorok yep. Also, like two full breaths of the shit and you're done, so don't take any chances
I worked in West Texas oil fields and I can say that my company trained everyone at every level on H2S safety. It’s very serious and everyone knows how serious it is.
A funeral director told me that H2S industrial accidents were especially devastating because H2S would kill multiple people in one accident compared to other accidents that killed or injured one. I can also truly say that my CEO said that safety is/was his number one concern. I really respected his wisdom in keeping safety a distant first in front of all other concerns.
6 men killed from H2S in Abilene TX in 1974. I also saw that 6 workers died at a Tannery fro H2S, from the wrong chemicals being mixed
This is why, whenever you see someone on a work site that is on the ground, the first thing you do is NOT to run toward them but instead to run the other way and get additional assistance or find out whats wrong. Chances are they are dead already and trying to "save" them only puts you in danger.
@@buzzardx91 Hey that's a cool and challenging job. Do you mostly work on lines with no topological variation, full bore valves, etc. or do you have to deal with the annoying stuff? Also may I ask about what a Journeyman may earn?
@@pinkyfull Can't tell you how many rescue workers have entered an enclosed space where someone has died from an inhalation hazard and immediately died themselves. A lung full of typical solvent vapors will not leave you a chance to get treatment. And H2S is worse, kills via the same mechanism as Carbon Monoxide, with the Sulfide ion binding to iron in the cytochrome in your cell's mitochondria so you cannot receive oxygen in your cells no matter how much you breathe. You will experience extreme panic and then black out.
rare to see safety over money
good ceo
The animation here is really top-notch compared to older videos.
Thanks for making these videos! They're interesting to watch and also give the public an excellent, in-depth idea of the dangers of industrial environments. Hopefully it will not only impress upon people the importance of reasonable safety regulations but also prevent an accident. Now whenever I'm going to do anything remotely dangerous, I imagine Sheldon Smith saying, "The homeowner, who WAS NOT trained in plumbing, decided to disconnect iron pipe under pressure using two pipe wrenches, causing the nut to fly off and hit him in the..." OK OK NEVER MIND I'M CALLING A PLUMBER!!!
Plot twist: you then hear "The homeowner decided to call a plumber..." narrated