Shell’s Button of Doom: Worker Burned, Vapour Cloud Spreads, Oil Giant Fined £450k.
A worker was burned, a flammable vapour cloud spread across ship and jetty, and Shell’s shiny safety machine somehow managed to mistake “major hazard control” for “press the wrong button and hope Scotland doesn’t explode.”
PART ONE: THE FACT-BASED TABLOID DEEP DIVE
There are corporate safety failures.
Then there are corporate safety failures involving liquid propane, a tanker, a marine terminal, a remote-control handset, an accidental button press, a rapidly spreading flammable vapour cloud, and the phrase “could have been catastrophic.”
07 Jan 2022
07 Jan 2022
