Excerpt from Upcoming CSB Safety Video “Filling Blind”

The CSB’s upcoming safety video “Filling Blind” presents findings and recommendations into the CSB’s investigation of the October 23, 2009, accident at the Caribbean Petroleum, or CAPECO, terminal facility near San Juan, Puerto Rico. A massive explosion occurred when gasoline overflowed and sprayed out from a large aboveground storage tank, forming a 107-acre vapor cloud that ignited.