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Accident: 201925021 - One Employee Is Killed In Boiler Explosion, Another Is Injur

**Accident: 201925021 -- Report ID: 0626700 -- Event Date: 12/04/2009**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
312920226	12/04/2009	2911	Valero Refinery

At approximately 8:45 p.m. on December 4, 2009, Employee #1, #2, and other coworkers were restarting the B28 boiler in the Steam Unit, when the boiler catastrophically failed. The boiler explosion threw Employee #1 under the structure of the B27 boiler, causing him to sustain fatal blunt force trauma. A coworker and Employee #2 suffered unspecified injuries. Employee #2 was transported to a medical center, where he received treatment and was hospitalized.

Keywords: boiler, explosion

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation
1	312920226			Fatality	Fracture	Machine operators, not specified
2	312920226			Hospitalized injury	Cut/Laceration	Machine operators, not specified

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