December 17, 2013
The fire at Chevron Corp.’s refinery in Richmond, California, last year that sickened thousands was caused by the company ignoring a decade’s worth of calls for inspections and upgrades of piping that eventually corroded and failed, a federal safety report …
November 19, 2013
A Chevron Corp worker was killed in a fire that broke out early Friday morning at a cracking unit at the U.S. oil company’s 330,000-barrel-per-day refinery in Pascagoula, Miss. Tonya Graddy, an “operator” with 5 years of service, was killed …
August 29, 2013
The federal government is fighting with itself over a massive fire at a Chevron refinery in California that sent 15,000 people to hospitals with respiratory ailments. In one corner is the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, which conducted …