The U.S. Chemical Safety Board found that TPC Group LLC failed to identify areas where dangerous chemicals might cause explosions and didn't implement a safety recommendation that could've prevented the blast.
at the TPC Group LLC plant that the company failed to identify problem areas where dangerous "popcorn polymer" might build up and never implemented a safety recommendation to regularly flush pipes connected to out-of-service equipment.
In a statement, Sara Cronin, TPC Group's vice president of communications and public affairs, said the company has invested millions of dollars in improving equipment and safety programs since the explosion, and implemented a program to review systems for mitigating butadiene hazards. The massive explosion at about 1 a.m. Nov. 27, 2019, damaged nearby homes and buildings, and was followed by two more explosions - one a little more than an hour later, and another that afternoon around 2 p.m., which sent one of the chemical plant's towers flying into the air.
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