Introduction Background
Incident Description
Lessons Learned
Management of Process Safety
Safety Equipment

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• Before restarting the Coker, Equilon installed a new $575,000 remote-control system at the Coker unit that allows workers to unhead the steel Coker drums from a safe distance.
   
• The company also installed a $30,000 natural-gas backup system for purging the unit.