59: Bayer CropScience
From Causality by The Engineered Network
April 30, 2025 · 50 min · Season 1 · Episode 59
About this episode
The episode discusses a tragic incident at Bayer CropScience's facility in West Virginia, highlighting the safety failures that led to the loss of two lives.
After an extended outage of the Methomyl Unit at the Bayer facility in Institute, West Virginia, the decision was made to commence a restart of the Unit even though the DCS upgrade was still incomplete and the newly replaced Residue Treater hadn't been fully recommissioned. An incident whose root cause was years in the making would ultimately cost two people their lives.
Topics covered
- industrial safety
- chemical manufacturing
- workplace incidents
- Bayer CropScience
- West Virginia
- DCS upgrade
- Methomyl Unit
Keywords
- Bayer CropScience
- Methomyl Unit
- safety incident
- West Virginia
- chemical plant
- DCS upgrade
- industrial accident
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Bayer CropScience
Places: Institute, West Virginia
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