1989: Gas leak kills 23 in Pasadena, TX (Houston area)

Thirty years ago, the miraculous Texas economy demonstrated its awfulness a generation ago through shoddy safety, terrible zoning and being enabled by the Republicans at the Federal level. Obviously, little has changed.

The short version…

There was a plastics factory run by Phillips Petroleum which subcontracted its safety work to a contractor with a reputation on par with Orange Foolius’ credit score. The person doing the work wasn’t properly trained nor did the place have the proper detection systems to warn anyone that some moron forgot to isolate a line which flooded the area with 85,000 pounds of highly flammable ethylene-isobutane gas. When this ignited, the explosion was equal to 2.5 tons of TNT being detonated.

OSHA investigated afterwards but under the Reagan-Bush Reign of Error, nobody was punished, aka, nobody went to prison which is what happens in the other Western States.

It’s another demonstration of how Kapitalism has killed billions while The Economist defends it while pointing out the mere millions ‘Communism’ killed.

For more details on the event, see here.

Originally slated for : October 23, 2019 – 18:09 CDT

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