Refineries are not toys
Here are some pictures from a Lithuanian Refinery that didn't take care of their process lines and sprung a leak. This is similar to where I work except that we don't let our process lines get big holes in them. There is also a video of the tower (vaccum distilation tower, for those interested) collapsing. Sorry about the music, I didn't pick it. No one was injured, but the was almost $50 million in damage, as well as the fact that the refinery will be down for a while.
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Interesting. I'll have to dig for some more info/news on this. I work Quality Assurance in the Pharmaceutical industry, and am always on the look out for ramafications for not doing the right thing. In the past, I've used the 2004 north-east blackout, but this is another more recent incident.\r
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