Engen Oil Refinery Explosion Durban South Africa
Durban South Africa time is 06:55 am, and everything is going well. Five minutes later, an explosion was heard and thick smoke was seen rising from the middle of the oil Refinery lactated in the city, which caused fear among residents of many areas such as Hammour garden wood and Bin town baby by the force of the explosion.
The oil field represents a great danger to the lives of the plant's workforce and citizens living near these plants, s and as lives are lost as a result of accidents.
According to the statement of the police official spokesperson of Durban city, the explosion was heard at 07:00 am, and its power was very loud. As soon as the explosion occurred, the fire alarm sirens started, and this known in the response plan in case of discovering a fire in the plants, according to its safety management system.
As an initial report made by the spokesperson of emergency services Mr.Robert Mackenzie, the evacuation process took place quickly, and the plant workforce responded well. This is due to the evacuation training drill that was conducted in the plant from time to time.
For its part, the plant fire intervention unit rushed to intervene to extinguish the fire that broke out of the vertical column, and it took a process to extinguish the fire about an hour and forty 1 h 40 minutes, in order to control the fire completely.
And as a first human result, of this accident, eight 8 persons who are present at the scene of the explosion were injured, six of them were injured by inhaling the toxic gases that were emitted from the leak, and they received immediate first aid from the intervention and rescue team. The two 2 others were somewhat seriously injured due to falling somewhere height due to the explosion force, they were taken directly to the hospital which is in the city center.
The Engen oil refinery is considered the second national in terms of production capacity, which amounts to about 130 thousand barrels per day, after the Sapref refinery (a joint venture of royal dutch and bp) with a production of 180.000 thousand barrels per day.
The direct causes that caused this disaster have not yet been known, and according to reports from the plant's spokesperson, a team from the health and safety department began the investigation process to find the direct and root causes of this accident.
As shown in the video, another fire broke out in the residential complex adjacent to the plant, but till now, it was not motioned that it was caused by fireworks from the first explosion.
...........To be continued.......accident investigation result
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