BP Texas City Refinery Blast Victim: BP Keeps 'Killing People'

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Lawyers, Victims in 2005 Refinery Blast Want Investigation Reopened, Hope BP Execs See Jail Time
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/bp-2005-texas-city-refinery-blast-victim-bp/story?id=11095640


A 2005 accident at a BP refinery confined David Leining to a wheelchair for six months. It killed Ralph Dean's father-in-law and left his wife badly scarred and too sick to work.

Both men say someone should go to jail over what happened.

BP officials "didn't get in any trouble for killing people," said Dean, 49, a former engineering firm worker who, along with his wife and father-in-law, once contracted with BP. "They're still doing it... You're consumable if you're a blue-collar worker for BP. If you get hurt, they throw a little money at it and go on."

Five years before April's Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion killed 11 workers, energy giant BP was grappling with another fatal explosion, this time at its refinery in Texas City, Texas. That explosion, in March, 2005, killed 15 people and injured many more, including Leining, 58, a retired BP construction adviser, and Dean's wife.

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1. The right-wing response is always

"You knew the job was dangerous, too bad."

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2. I've been boycotting BP since that 2005 event.

That case was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. I never had a good impression of BP for years before that, and thought of them as Enronesque scoundrels, but that case made clear they put workers at greater risk to save money by cutting corners.