Refinery & Plant Explosions.

An industrial explosion does its damage in a fraction of a second, but the decisions that caused it were made long before.

A refinery or chemical plant runs on pressure, heat, and volatile material held safely apart by systems that must work every time. When they fail, through a corroded line, an overpressured vessel, a botched shutdown, or an ignored alarm, the result is blast injury, severe burns, and inhalation damage, often to workers who did nothing wrong. These are among the most catastrophic injuries there are, and they demand a case built to match.

The causes are almost always documented somewhere: maintenance and inspection records, process safety data, alarm and control logs, and the post-incident investigation. Getting to that evidence, and identifying every company whose choices contributed, is the heart of the work. On a plant site that can mean the operator, a maintenance contractor, and an equipment maker all sharing responsibility.