{"id":7352,"date":"2005-03-24T09:35:44","date_gmt":"2005-03-24T16:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/03\/24\/my-company-unfortunately-in-the-news.html"},"modified":"2005-03-24T09:35:44","modified_gmt":"2005-03-24T16:35:44","slug":"my_company_unfo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/24\/my_company_unfo.html","title":{"rendered":"My company, unfortunately, in the news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite having misspelled the name of the subsidiary involved, my company is indeed the one mentioned in this story about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/US\/03\/24\/plant.blast\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">BP Refinery explosion in Texas City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Word is that things are pretty tumultuous in the Houston office right now.<\/p>\n<p>My company prides itself (and rightly so) on its safety record, attentiveness, and procedures, so any injuries, and expecialy any deaths, are extremely unusual, even in as relatively dangerous a field as engineering and construction.  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