Items Tagged with 'Kleen Energy explosion'

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ICC prohibits “gas blow” pipe cleaning practice

Unsafe method killed six workers at Kleen Energy plant in Conn.
February 7, 2014

The chairperson of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) yesterday commended the International Code Council (ICC) and its members for revising the International Fire Code (IFC) and International Fuel Gas Code (IFGC) to prohibit the unsafe practice that killed six workers in a tragic explosion at the Kleen Energy power generation facility in Middletown, Connecticut.


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NFPA’s new gas process safety standard goes above & beyond, says CSB

Dangerous “gas blow” procedure prohibited
November 5, 2013

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) is commending the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) for exceeding the Board’s recommended actions in developing a new gas process safety standard. The CSB issued an urgent recommendation in June, 2010 following the February 7, 2010, deadly natural gas explosion at the Kleen Energy electric plant – then under construction in Middletown, Connecticut.


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