Fuel Workers Are Dying Inhaling Gases – Despite US Warnings To Big Oil [1]
"After multiple worker fatalities, the US government warned manual gauging was dangerous. The oil industry seems to have not taken note, activists say".
"Jeff Springman climbed the metal stairs on an oil storage tank at a production site in west Texas and opened the small hatch at the top.
He was going to test the fluid in the tank before pumping it into his truck, a practice known as manual gauging. Instead he was engulfed by invisible chemicals that had built up inside.
Springman passed out.
A man he was training on the job that day in October 2019, Greg Fausto, caught him from falling several feet to the ground below, according to both men. When Springman came to, he saw that his gas monitor was beeping with a reading showing that the concentration of gas in the air had reached a flammable level."