Investigators find BP played down concerns ahead of 2022 explosion, WSJ says

Federal investigators found BP supervisors played down several workers’ concerns about an Ohio refinery, missing multiple opportunities to prevent an explosion that occurred in September 2022 that killed two brothers, Jenny Strasburg of The Wall Street Journal reports. The findings from a nearly two-year probe by the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board says the accident resulted from a lack of training, lax safety processes, and breakdowns in communication between daytime and evening shift workers. The report says BP failed to shut down refinery production despite repeated warning signs and failed to fix known equipment problems that could have prevented the accident.