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1 dead, 4 injured in Ardmore Valero refinery fire; injured worker plans lawsuit over safety concerns
A fire at the Valero refinery in Ardmore killed one worker, injured four, prompting a planned lawsuit over possible safety violations.
ARDMORE, Okla. — An Oklahoma man who suffered serious burns in a refinery fire has died. The family of Jesse Biscamp says he died after the incident at the Valero Ardmore facility last Monday. It was reported Biscamp suffered third-degree burns over his entire body.
At least four of the lawsuits, including three filed in state District Court in San Antonio, are each seeking at least $1 million in damages.
A lot has happened in the nine days since a tragic fire at the Valero refinery in Ardmore. Here's what we know so far.
A fire at the charging pumps of the SEVIA unit forced Ecuador's state firm Petroecuador to preemptively and temporarily suspend operations at the 110,000 barrel-per-day Esmeraldas refinery, the third such incident in nine months.
A fire at Petroecuador's Esmeraldas oil refinery, the country's largest, temporarily halted operations after a fire broke out in the charge pumps of one of its units, the state oil company said on Sunday,
A contractor injured in Monday’s fire at the Valero refinery is filing a lawsuit against the company, alleging it failed to provide a safe place to work.
Flames engulfed one of the tanks at the Albashneft oil refinery in Novominskaya and burned an adjacent area of about 150 square meters, the Krasnodar Krai Operational Headquarters said.
An oil refinery caught fire in the large rural locality of Novominskaya, Kanevsky District, Krasnodar Krai, russia, as a result of a drone