You are here
No injuries as NP boiler explodes
Published:
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Workers at T&T National Petroleum Marketing Company Ltd’s (NP) Sea Lots plant escaped serious injury, and even death, when a boiler exploded early yesterday. The incident took place at 8 am at the Lubricants Plant (LOBP) at the NP plant on 1 National Drive, Sea Lots, Port-of-Spain.A release from NP’s communication’s unit said the problem occurred with the internal ignition on one of the boilers which caused its exhaust stack cover to be blown off.
The release also confirmed that none of its workers were injured in the blast and the boiler was immediately shut down and isolated. According to officials at NP, a full investigation has been ordered into the incident. NP also assured the public that “key fuel operations” remained intact and that activity at the lubricants facility was expected to return to normal by today. In a telephone interview yesterday, Chief Fire Officer Carl Williams said the incident was not reported to the Fire Services.
Disclaimer
User comments posted on this website are the sole views and opinions of the comment writer and are not representative of Guardian Media Limited or its staff. Guardian Media Limited accepts no liability and will not be held accountable for user comments.
Please help us keep out site clean from inappropriate comments by using the flag option.
Guardian Media Limited reserves the right to remove, to edit or to censor any comments. Any content which is considered unsuitable, unlawful or offensive, includes personal details, advertises or promotes products, services or websites or repeats previous comments will be removed.
Before posting, please refer to the Community Standards, Terms and conditions and Privacy Policy