One Texas worker is dead and another two are injured after an accident at Valero’s Texas City refinery.
The victim, 40-year-old Tommy Manis, died of blunt force trauma caused by a boiler failure that occurred on Friday night. The boiler is used to generate steam that heats petroleum products during the refining process.
Manis was killed instantly by the blast
The two injured workers are said to be “doing well,” according to Valero spokesman Bill Day. Day also says that the workplace accident has not yet been classified as an explosion and that the investigation is ongoing.
Operations at the plant, which employs around 480 people and processes about 245,000 barrels a day, have returned to normal.
The boom from the blast shook houses located several miles from the refinery, but, says Day, there was no environmental impact from the workplace accident.
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