TORRANCE, Calif. (AP) — An independent federal agency charged with investigating industrial chemical accidents will deliver a report on its probe into a blast at a Southern California refinery that injured four contractors a year ago and rained a white ash on the surrounding community.
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board will also discuss its findings with residents at a meeting later Wednesday that’s expected to be attended by state lawmakers and activists who are concerned about the safety of the refinery, which sits in a densely populated part of the city of Torrance.
State officials have already fined the former ExxonMobil refinery $566,000 for health and safety violations in the Feb. 18, 2015 blast.
California regulators found the explosion was caused by vapor leakage from a fluid catalytic cracker unit into an electrostatic precipitator.
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