© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A Marathon Petroleum banner covers an Andeavor signal exterior the El Paso refinery following a closed $23 billion deal after the Ohio-based Marathon purchased the Texas-based firm, forming one of many largest world refiners in El Paso, Texas, U.
By Erwin Seba
(Reuters) – Marathon Petroleum Corp (NYSE:) and the U.S. Occupational Security and Well being Administration (OSHA) have begun investigating the dying on Tuesday of a contract employee at Marathon’s Galveston Bay Refinery in Texas Metropolis, Texas, spokespeople for the corporate and company mentioned on Wednesday.
“On Tuesday, at roughly 4:45 p.m. (CST 2245 GMT), a contract employee, sustained accidents from an electrical shock,” mentioned Marathon spokesperson Jamal Kheiry. “We remorse to report that he subsequently handed away after being transported to a medical facility.”
Individuals conversant in the matter who spoke on situation of anonymity mentioned the 25-year-old scaffold builder employed by Excel Modular Scaffold made contact with {an electrical} conduit and was electrocuted.
A spokesperson for privately held Excel Modular Scaffold in Deer Park, Texas, was not instantly accessible for remark.
The person was engaged on scaffolding on the resid hydrotreater on the refinery, which is certainly one of a number of models at the moment being overhauled, mentioned the sources who weren’t licensed to talk publicly.
Refiners contract with exterior corporations to carry out deliberate upkeep work and unplanned repairs on refinery models.
The hydrotreater was shut with different models in late January initially of deliberate overhauls on the refinery.
