From the Vice Presidentâ€™s Desk Our Campaign Will

I want to thank everyone who attendedthe National Oil Bargaining (NOB) con-ference in September. It was good to seeyou all!

During the conference the delegateselected the 2010-2013 National OilBargaining Policy Committee and alter-nates. Your new policy committee is DaveDanko (Local 7-1), Jim Savage (Local 10-1), Mike Maloney (Local 11-574), DonHoutchens (Local 12-590) and LarryBurchfield (Local 13-1).

Your policy committee has as alternatesSteward Armstrong (Local 912), KenGomeringer (Local 4-898), MikeMcFadden (Local 558), Steve Swader(Local 534) and Darrell Kyle (Local 13-243).

I encourage all of you to support thesecommittee members. I also want to thankthe former policy committee for all theirhard work. Being a committee member isa demanding job and it will be especiallyso for this next round of negotiations.

On our oil bargaining website you’llfind an article about the conference and aslideshow of photos taken by brother PatPatterson. Check it out by going towww.oilbargaining.org. The article is enti-tled, “Refinery Safety Major Focus of OilBargaining Conference.”

Shell Prepares for NOB StrikeShell Oil, has hired a manager for work-

force contingency planning in preparationfor the 2012 NOB talks. The anticipatedassignment duration is two years, and theperson had to start in this full-time posi-tion by Oct. 1, 2010.

According to the job notice, this manag-er will be working with the manufacturingvice presidents and manufacturing sitegeneral managers to develop and imple-ment comprehensive strike contingency

plans for all represented Shell and MotivaU.S. refineries. He or she will engage inresource identification and planning; deter-mine training needs and coordination; pro-vide guidance on overall plan execution;and establish and maintain internal net-works to implement site contingencyplans.

Other job duties are to implement acomprehensive plan that enables Shell andMotiva to continue operations during astrike, engage in strategy and planning ses-sions prior to NOB and to be up-to-datewith competitor practices and regulatoryrequirements.

If Shell has hired someone to preparefor a strike you can bet that the other oilcompanies have done so as well.

This should be a wake-up call to all thelocals. Don’t be surprised if you start see-ing want ads for your jobs. Your supervi-sors, if they haven’t already started, willbe pumping you for information about theunion’s strategy. When they ask about this,tell them to give you the company’s strate-gy first.

Supervisors will ask if you or yourunion is going to go on strike. Let themknow it’s an internal union matter, anddon’t let on how you feel about the issuebecause your message will get to the top, Iguarantee it and what you say influencesour bargaining power.

Start Getting ReadyI’ve always said that the best way to

avoid a strike is to prepare for one. Startsetting aside money each month to supple-ment strike benefits and avoid makingmajor purchases until after contract talksare settled. That’s what our predecessorsdid when they wanted to make the con-tract gains we take for granted now.

As I told the media, I’m not marching

toward 2012 with the intention of having astrike. However, we need to get a compre-hensive agreement that has enforceablehealth and safety language so we haverecourse if something is not safe. Theindustry agrees to the language but theydon’t want to make it subject to the griev-ance procedure or arbitration. If there is noenforcement, the language becomes mean-ingless and managers and supervisors canignore it.

Ask yourself: Isn’t your life and jobworth fighting for?

Get Information OutThe best source of information about

our health and safety campaign to protectourselves, our communities and secure ourjobs is The Oil Worker. That’s why it’simportant we get it into the hands of everymember. Some locals are distributing itusing their Communications and ActionTeam (CAT), Rapid Response network orsteward network. Others are collecting thehome email addresses of every memberand emailing the newsletter to them.

While it’s okay to post the newsletter onunion bulletin boards in the plant and onlocal union websites, please don’t makethat your only distribution method. Wemust get this newsletter into the hands ofevery member.

Our oil website, www.oilbargaining.org,also has the back issues of The Oil Workerand features the video “Out of Control”which illustrates why we’re doing thishealth and safety campaign. Refer mem-bers to the website if they need moreinformation.

The new video we’re producing, “StillOut of Control” will be completed this falland can be screened at your monthlymembership meetings.

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From the Vice President’s Desk

www.oilbargaining.org Issue 15 November 22, 2010

Our Campaign Will Continue Until Health & Safety Issues are Resolved

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Where the Oil Products Imports Issue Stands TodayBy Keith Romig, USW staff

The import of finished oil productsinto the United States is a significantproblem right now and soon will getworse. USW was alerted to this issueover a year ago by activist members onthe East and Gulf Coast as we began toexperience refinery cutbacks and shut-downs that USW believes are caused inpart by products imports from overseas.

USW has been analyzing statisticsfrom the Energy InformationAdministration (EIA) for the last 12months. In addition, members haveshared a lot of anecdotal informationincluding news reports that back up thesestatistics.

During a recent meeting with theNational Petrochemical and RefinersAssn. (NPRA) the union found NPRAstaff shared our concern about imports,no doubt based on concerns expressed bythose of the association’s members thatare independent refiners. NPRA corrobo-rated just about everything USW learnedboth from our members and from the sta-tistical analysis.

Proof NeededI mentioned at the 2010 oil bargaining

conference that the imports issue was ahigh hill to climb and that there was nobetter group of people to climb it withthan USW oil workers. Let me illustratewith a little bit of autobiography.

When I moved to Colorado in 1980 tofurther my education I found a lot ofhigh mountains to climb. Wide-eyed andnaïve my friends and I began to climbthem. We quickly found out that thetrails up the mountains not only werehigh, they were long, with a lot of bendsin the road. There were very long walksin the wood before we could even get farenough to see anything, let alone make itto the top.

That’s basically where we are with theproducts imports issue. We have a longcomplex road to walk. Right now wehave evidence, but we need proof.

USW has discussed this issue with topstaff at the Wessell Group, the union’sprimary outside trade experts. These peo-ple are passionately dedicated to helpingUSW and its impacted industries get the

trade relief we need to keep our indus-tries alive and our members in their jobs.

Right now in the United States theestablishment bias is very much in favorof free trade. That means if we or anyoneelse wants to convince the InternationalTrade Commission, the Department ofCommerce, or the White House that tar-iffs or other relief should be given, theburden of proof is extraordinarily high.

Types of Trade CasesThere are three forms of trade cases I

will discuss here. One is anti-dumping.Dumping is where a company overseassells products here both below the cost ofproduction and below the prices it ischarging in its home markets. If the com-pany is just underselling because it hasto undersell to sell at all, it’s not dump-ing. If the company sells below the priceit charges in its home market but can stillmake a profit on the prices it chargeshere, that’s not dumping either.

Countervailing duty is where a foreigngovernment is giving illegal subsidies toits producers to undersell producers overhere. If the Department of Commerceand the International Trade Commissionfind proof of these subsidies, they canassess tariffs. The same is true with anti-dumping.

With a Section 201 case, the injuredparties petition the White House directlyfor relief. When USW forced the BushAdministration to grant relief to the steelindustry in the first half of the currentdecade, close to 30% of the industry hadclosed its doors. There has to be atremendous amount of injury before thisremedy can be used.

USW has won numerous trade cases inthe rubber, steel, paper, aluminum, glass,nuclear, cement, and other industrial sec-tors over the years. In every one of thesecases the union had the support of com-panies in the industry and access to theneeded confidential business informationto make its case. Without this supportand this information it is impossible toprove that the refinery closings and jobloss are related to the import problem.

Unwilling to Break RankIt is clear NPRA staff is concerned.

And they are concerned because theyhave heard a lot from independentrefiners that are very concerned. But sofar neither NPRA nor any of the inde-pendent refiners has been willing tobreak rank with Big Oil—companieslike BP, Shell, ExxonMobil,ConocoPhillips, Chevron, andMarathon that are to one degree oranother part of the products importproblem.

There also is a public perception thatany company involved in oil from thecorner gas station to truck stop chainsto small independent refiners, to littlewildcat drillers, right on up to the bigboys is all Big Oil. We are going tohave to use all our public relationsskills to overcome this public percep-tion.

The main thing we have to do as aunion is break one or more independentrefiners away from the pack. USW isgoing to keep talking to NPRA and tothe independent refiners on a companylevel.

First Step to TakeIn addition, it is absolutely vital that

local union leaders who work for these(continued on page 3)

How to getThe Oil Worker

If you are an oil worker and arenot receiving The Oil Workernewsletter and would like to get it,please send your home e-mailaddress to International VicePresident Gary Beever’s administra-tive assistant, Julie Lidstone, at [email protected]. Besides your homee-mail address, please state the nameof the company you work for andyour job title.

The Oil Worker comes out at leastonce per month and features infor-mation about oil bargaining, the oilindustry, health and safety, oilunions from around the world andhealth care.


(continued from page 1)Remember, there is a Community

Outreach Toolkit on the flash drives wehanded out at the emergency oil health andsafety meeting in June and at the oil bar-gaining conference. Start with one activityand then move on to the others. Theseactivities can help our campaign to secureour jobs.

More injuredAt the end of September two of our

members at BP’s Texas City refinery wereburned by steam while working on apipestill.

One worker had minor burns and theother had 2nd and 3rd degree burns andhad to undergo skin grafts. Our best wishesgo out to those members in their recovery.

The next day non-essential personnelgathered for safety review meetings calledsafety stand downs. This process happenswhen there are serious injuries and wasimplemented when BP overhauled its safe-ty procedures in response to the horrific2005 explosion and fire. This is a step inthe right direction.

A contract worker died October 6 whilerepairing a pipe leaking hydrogen sulfidegas at ExxonMobil’s Chalmette, La., refin-

Our Campaign Will Continue Until Health & Safety Issues are Resolvedery. According to press reports, it is not clearwhether the man died from exposure to theleak or had a previous medical condition.

A fire forced shut the fluid catalyticcracker (FCC) at Citgo’s refinery inLemont, Ill., Nov. 2. The FCC receivedminor repairs after the brief fire. Chicagogas rose as a result.

A 45-year-old maintenance mechanicfrom Local 10-901 was severely burnedNov. 12 around 2 a.m. at the Sunoco refin-ery in Philadelphia. At the time of thiswriting, he was in critical but stable condi-tion at the Temple University Hospitalintensive care unit. He is in an inducedcoma and received second- and third-degree burns over 25 percent of his bodyon his head, face, neck, shoulder, handsand lower arms.

The USW Emergency Response Teamhas been called to the scene and OSHA isin the plant doing its investigation.

TesoroIt looks like Tesoro is cutting benefits

for its employees and retirees to pay for itsexplosion and fire last April. The companywants to change healthcare options, elimi-nate retiree medical care and change thedefined benefit pension to a cash balance

system. Our position is that you don’t pay for

the deaths of seven employees by cuttingyour workers’ and retirees’ benefits.

Tesoro could have prevented the Aprildisaster, according to the Washington StateDepartment of Labor & Industries. We’llhave a story in the next Oil Worker abouttheir findings and our investigation.

Oil Product ImportsKeith Romig gave a presentation at the

oil conference on oil product imports. Inthis newsletter you can read his article onwhere the oil products imports issuestands today. I’ll keep you updated in TheOil Worker on future developments.

We need your help on this issue. If yourlocal has not already done so, please sub-mit a USW data demand on oil productimports to your employer. You can get acopy of the data demand on the flash drivewe gave everyone or you can call myoffice (409-838-1972) and I’ll have myassistant, Julie Lidstone, send one to you.

Gary BeeversInternational Vice PresidentChair, National Oil Bargaining [email protected]

Where the OilProducts ImportsIssue Stands Today(continued from page 2)independent refiners talk to their localmanagements to see how hard those man-agers who understand what is going onare willing to push inside the company toget it to work with USW to tackle thisproblem.

This first step is absolutely vital in anysort of trade action. It’s the first big part ofthe hill we have to climb together. Wemust get one or more independent refinersthat are being injured by the imports prob-lem or stand to be injured when it getsworse to break rank with Big Oil and sup-port USW, both to save our members’ jobsand to save their own ability to operate.

The work members have done has beenabsolutely crucial. Leo Gerard, TomConway, Gary Beevers and USW staff arecommitted to working alongside you toget the support we need to bring and winsuch a case.

Books You Should ReadDuring Keith Romig’s presentation on thestate of the oil industry at the National OilBargaining conference, he mentioned fourbooks everyone should read to better under-stand the sector. These books are:

Ida Tarbell, The History of the Standard OilCompany. This was published in 1904, butstill is available in several editions atpowells.com and amazon.com.

Anthony Sampson, The Seven Sisters.

Daniel Yergin, The Prize.

Antonia Juhasz, The Tyranny of Oil.

Romig says Yergin’s book is a bit pro-compa-ny, but is crammed full of useful and other-wise hard-to-find information. The other threebooks also have great information and all arewritten as exposes of the companies’ bad prac-tices. All these books can be found at pow-ells.com or amazon.com. Powells’s workersare unionized.

World Energy Conference Issues Resolution on Safety in Oil,Gas Sector

(Editor’s note: USW Vice PresidentGary Beevers attended the ICEMWorld Energy Conference and spokeon health and safety problems withinthe oil industry.)

The International Federation ofChemical, Energy, Mine and GeneralWorkers’ Unions (ICEM) World EnergyConference, meeting in Stavanger,Norway on September 6-7, 2010, isdeeply disturbed by the extraordinarilyhigh number of workplace deaths andinjuries in recent months, in bothupstream and downstream oil and gasindustries. It must be remembered thatthese are workers who died producingprofits for corporations that failed to pro-vide safe working conditions.

Specifically, the ICEM notes a rash ofexplosions and fires in US oil refineries,including the tragic refinery explosion ofthe Tesoro company at the Anacortes,Washington, refinery that killed sevendedicated union members in April 2010.The ICEM grieves the death of aPetrobras worker at an onshore oils fieldin the state of Bahia in May. Much hasrightly been made of the environmentaldestruction along the United States Gulfcoast brought about by the BP-operatedoil rig explosion and blow-out in theGulf of Mexico earlier this year. Afterthe initial news, however, the fact that 11offshore workers died and 15 others wereseverely injured has been largelyignored. These are examples only. ICEMalso recognizes that there have beenmany further workplace deaths in the oiland gas and other sectors.

This deterioration in safety and healthconditions is attributable, the Conferencebelieves, to the rush by corporations tomaximize profits in the wake of thefinancial crisis, and a general disregardfor best practices in safety and health.Indeed, many oil and gas companies,rather than create or re-create decent jobsas the economy recovers, have insteadmade a hazardous industry more haz-ardous by expanding the utilization ofcontract workers, combining existingjobs, and decreasing direct employment.This situation is made worse by the non-regulation, deregulation and non-enforce-ment of safety and environmental regula-tions by many governments.

The ICEM calls on the industry toengage the legitimate workers' represen-tatives in implementing proper proce-dures and best practices such as ProcessSafety Management and Joint Union-Management Health and SafetyCommittees to remedy the inherent risksin these industries.

ICEM insists that tradeunions be fully involved inall design, safety method-ology and implementationof safety equipment, aswell as fully involved ininvestigative work follow-ing accidents or malfunc-tions.

The ICEM pledges to alert affiliateswhenever it becomes aware of massdeaths inside any work facility caused bynegligence or faulty safety systems. It isthe expectation that trade union affiliateswill bring attention to these horrific actsto their own governments and insidetheir own enterprises in order that a new

safety consciousness is raised and a newculture of health and safety is built.

The ICEM also calls for ratification andstrict adherence to all of the importantInternational Labor Organization (ILO)instruments on occupational health andsafety, including: ILO Convention 155,the Occupational Safety and HealthConvention; Convention 174, thePrevention of Major Industrial AccidentsConvention; Convention 162, theAsbestos Convention; Convention 148,the Working Environment (Air Pollution,Noise, Ventilation); Convention 136, theBenzene Convention; Convention 170, theChemicals Convention; Convention 115,the Radiation Protection Convention;Convention 139, the Occupational CancerConvention; Convention 183, theMaternity Protection Convention; andConvention 176, on Safety and Health inMines, as well as attention to the ILOGuidelines on Health and SafetyManagement Systems.

Finally, the ICEM calls on otherGlobal Union Federations to join itscampaign for better safety and healthconditions throughout all industries.

Remembering Glen Teddie “Ted” AllenBrother Ted Allen was a doer and

was active in health and safety affairsfor Local 13-555 up until his deathSept. 22 at his home in Dry Creek, La.

He worked for 33 years at theConocoPhillips refinery in LakeCharles, La., and was the head operatoron the fluid catalytic cracker unit.

Allen was a charter member of thejoint health and safety committee andrefinery rescue team at ConocoPhillips.The rescue team started in 1983 and hewas an active member up until hisdeath. He was the first facilitator for thebehavior-based safety process, whichstarted in 1995 at the refinery, and wasinvolved with CAPS (ChangingAwareness Produces Safety).

Besides being Local 13-555’s secre-tary-treasurer from 1984 until 2006,Allen was on the local’s negotiatingcommittee in 1982 and 1984 and was anoperations committeeman.

“In a workplace where so few volun-

teers do so much, he will be irreplace-able,” said Leon Royer, chair of thenegotiating committee.

A member of Dry Creek Baptist Church,Allen was a deacon and sang in the choir.He loved to fish and hunt. His girls,Veronica and Marcie, and granddaughter,Felicity, were the apples of his eye.

“Ted was a man of character andintegrity,” said USW Vice PresidentGary Beevers. “He will be sorelymissed. Our condolences go out to hisfamily.”

Allen is survived by his wife of 37years, Mary Yeates Allen; daughters,Veronica Allen and Marcie Allen Dobbsand husband, Chris (whom he consid-ered a son); mother, Margie Mae Allen;twin brother, Floyd Eddie Allen; sistersJerrie Rae Young and husband, Oris,and Barbara Barton; and one grand-daughter, Felicity Grace Breaux. Inaddition, he is survived by 28 niecesand nephews.


Health & Safety Problems Discussed at Oil Bargaining ConferenceAfter showing the original “Out of

Control” video that discussed processsafety problems 21 years ago, USW VicePresident Gary Beevers told the dele-gates to the National Oil Bargaining(NOB) conference that our current healthand safety campaign resumes where weleft off in 1989.

“Not a lot has changed since thatvideo was made,” Beevers remarked.

Our “Safe Refineries, Secure Jobs,Healthy Communities” campaign wasthe main focus at the September NOBconference, which drew several hundredparticipants. Other topics addressedincluded the state of the industry, theUSW emergency response team, the sin-gle payer healthcare campaign, and oilproducts imports.

Delegates participated in workshopsessions, attended their respective com-pany council meetings and elected a newNOB Policy Committee.

Being at the NOB conference was anew experience for Local 13-12 memberHughes Jenkins, who is an operator atExxonMobil’s chemical plant in BatonRouge. He said in his unit old equipmentneeds to be replaced and employees needto be updated on hazards.

“One of my officers told me the video“Out of Control” is Mandan in 2010,”said Local 10 member Javier Montoya,who works at the Tesoro refinery inMandan, North Dakota. “They bringcontractors with no experience to doturnarounds. They use people off thestreet. One day they’re pipe fitters, thenext day they’re laborers and the follow-ing day they’re carpenters.

“A lot of contractors get a 20-minutevideo on safety policies and proceduresin our facility. We’ve let managementknow that these guys are not totallytrained, but management says they aretrained correctly,” Montoya said.

Legal RequirementEmployers are required by law to pro-

vide employees with a safe workplaceeven if it costs more or takes a littlelonger to do the job.

“Now that doesn’t mean it will getdone,” said Mr. Kim Nibarger of theUSW Health, Safety and Environmentdepartment to the delegates. “It is muchcheaper for companies to play the odds.

The odds are in their favor that they willnever get busted on a compliance issuebecause they probably will never beinspected.”

He said when OSHA began itsNational Emphasis Program and sent let-ters to refiners telling them what wasgoing to be looked at, refiners did not tryto fix those areas before the inspectorscame into the plants.

It is cheaper for companies to contestOSHA citations rather than fix the prob-lems because it is likely many of thesafety issues will be vacated and finesreduced, he said.

Hydrogen Fluoride UsePart of our “Safe Refineries, Secure

Jobs, Healthy Communities” campaign isto persuade refiners to discontinue theuse of hydrogen fluoride (HF) acid in thealkylation process and replace it with asafer solid acid catalyst.

HF is a corrosive poison. Inhalation ofit can damage the nose, throat, lungs,heart, liver and kidneys. It readily pene-trates the skin and destroys soft tissuesand decalcifies bone. Exposure to highconcentrations of it can cause death.

“The companies have produced a falseand misleading report, through theNational Petroleum Refiners Association,comparing the safety of HF to sulfuricacid and ignoring solid acid catalysts asan unproven technology,” Nibarger said.

He said that even during thisdepressed economic time for refiners, thecost is not prohibitive.

“They plain just don’t want to changeand see no reason to switch, safer ornot,” he said.

Nibarger said one reason for the resist-ance may be that the oil companies have

not perfected the catalyst; however, onecompany is working at it diligently. Hesuspected the companies might have adifferent attitude if they don’t have torely on an outside vendor and supply thesolid acid catalyst themselves.

“One failure with an HF alkylationunit on the scale of failure of theDeepwater Horizon drilling rig and allrefiners will be struggling to keep operat-ing,” he said.

One-Sided Effort“Our experience with the American

Petroleum Institute (API) and working todevelop two standards were met with thesame one-sided effort as most of our actionsare with this industry,” Nibarger said.

The fatigue standard group refused toincorporate our union’s request for areduction in open shifts over a five-yearperiod from a base year number. Thecompanies decided each site shoulddetermine what works best for them.

“In other words, keep doing what youare doing,” Nibarger said.

This would be like each airline havingits own fatigue standard. Fortunately, forthe public’s safety, that is not the case.

The API came up with its own fatiguestandard and some companies are push-ing this at several sites as the answer tothe fatigue problem. Nibarger remindedthe delegates that this is an NOB issueand that they should contact VP GaryBeevers immediately if presented with afatigue proposal.

As for the other standard, the safetymetrics standard group did not want toincorporate public reporting of events“other than what they could not hidefrom the public,” Nibarger said.

He said when the union suggestedreporting of a process relief valve orsafety system activation, the companiesresponded that such systems are doingwhat they are supposed to do and every-thing is fine.

“We could not convincethem that a safety systemactivation was a signal ofa failure in the manage-ment system up the line,”Nibarger said.



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Health & Safety Problems Discussed at Oil Bargaining Conference(continued from page 5)

A Growing Crisis“We see a growing crisis of safety in

the oil sector,” said Rafael Moure-Eraso,chair of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board,who spoke at the NOB conference. Hecited the Gulf rig disaster as well asrecent explosions and fires at onshoreproduction, processing, and refiningfacilities.

Moure-Eraso said operators have toldhim that turnarounds that normally occurevery two to three years are happeningnow every four to five years. They havesaid that broken equipment is not imme-diately addressed and workers are told to“work around the problem.”

Companies need to strengthen theirmechanical integrity programs so thatproblems are detected before releasesoccur, the chairman said.

Moure-Eraso said that CSB investiga-tions of the 2005 Texas City explosionand other refinery disasters highlight

additional safety concerns, including jobconsolidation, decreased staff, operatorfatigue, inadequate training, and lack ofeffective, transparent process safety indi-cators.

Run to FailureBeevers told reporters attending the

conference that the oil industry runs itsequipment until it breaks down.

“It’s all about money,” he said. “Therefiners run the units longer to sell asmuch product as possible.”

He said the industry needs to bringback shorter periods between turn-arounds so equipment can be bettermaintained.

The API told the media that refinerslook at the hazards of delaying mainte-nance or turnarounds before taking anyaction. “You are dealing with hazardousmaterials, and accidents unfortunatelyhappen,” an API spokesperson said.

“We can’t accept the attitude thatupsets are bound to happen because of

the hazardous nature of the refiningprocess,” Beevers said. “Just imagine ifthe nuclear industry had this attitude.Where would we be today?

“If refiners paid greater attention tosafety instead of production and reinvest-ed more of their profits into their infra-structure instead of buying back theirstock, there would be fewer, preventableaccidents,” he added.

Path ForwardDelegates agreed to keep track of

refinery events and send them on a regu-lar basis to Nibarger. A sequel to “Out ofControl” is being developed and a copyof the video will be sent to each local fora membership viewing. Delegates wereencouraged to use the CommunityOutreach Toolkit on the flash drives thatwere handed out at the emergency oilhealth and safety meeting and at the con-ference. In 2011 there will be manyactivities for locals to participate in lead-ing up to the 2012 NOB talks.

As promised in USW Vice PresidentGary Beavers’ column from the last edi-tion, several issues of The Oil Workerwill feature the stories of oil workerswho spoke about health and safety haz-ards in the refining sector at the emer-gency oil health and safety meeting.What follows is a transcript of the mes-sage John Warner gave the delegates.Warner is president of Local 13-647 atthe Citgo refinery in Corpus Christi,Texas, and has worked at the facility for28 years. What could not be decipheredwas left out.

John WarnerLook across at your neighbor. Imagine

him not being here at our next meetingin Dallas or if they are there, they’remissing an arm, a leg or they’re burnedto the point you can’t recognize them.That’s why I’m here today.

On July 19, 2009 I got a call from myvice president that we had an incident atthe refinery, a hydrogen fluoride (HF)incident. There was a fire and an explo-sion. The first question I asked was ‘Isanybody hurt?’ He told me yes.

Charles is here to tell his side of thestory. He lived it. What I’m going to tellyou is that in our investigation we founda callous disregard for life. We found ourpeople had become complacent to livewith the safety hazards.

They had a clamp on a line that goesup to the iso-stripper that looked like amini Volkswagon. It had a clamp on topof a clamp. They kept building clampson this.

We had clamps throughout the wholeunit.

On July 19 a hydrocarbon vapor cloudignited at the Citgo Corpus Christi refin-ery, injuring Gabe Alverado. He was anMSW technician. He was doing mainte-nance work and he was learning opera-tions. He had less than two years experi-ence in his current job position. Thetechnicians who responded to the firehad less than five years of experiencebetween the two of them. The operatorhad 15 years of experience.

Our investigation noted that there wasa comment from an inspector’s reportthat the nipples on some screwed pipingwere not back-welded. This was found

two years prior to the incidentand nothing was done.

The company turned aroundand blamed the contractor fornot getting the work orderissued. The contractor gavethose reports to supervisionwho initiated the workrequest. They extended theturnaround schedule. Theytook this turnaround andextended it by another yearbecause it was running sogood. Yet we had all thesepatches.

What Happened July 19They called the unit opera-

tor up and told him we lostrecycle flow. Recycle flowpulled the unit and heads intothe reactors. That’s where westart getting our alkalizationreaction and start breaking itinto hydrocarbons and the gaslane. It’s where the gases andthe acid mix, where ever


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Oil Worker Talks about Refinery Health, Safety(continued from page 6)thing comes together. We lost the coolantto that section of the refinery of the unit.

When we lost that coolant there start-ed a violent chain reaction that startedthe pipe movement. It was bouncing notonly in that section but it affected othersections. The strainer section of the reac-tors has those threaded nipples that need-ed to be back-welded. They cracked.There was a small release that led acrossthe ground.

Then the nipples broke off completely,releasing not only isobutene but hydro-gen fluoride alkalization acid. As itcomes through the unit the next thingyou see is a massive explosion.

The company blamed the people say-ing, ‘Hey, you didn’t tell us you had arelease. Why didn’t you tell us?’

Well, at that point in time they werehauling ass out of the unit trying to savetheir lives.

The night before, our terminal depart-ment had to isolate a water leak andcalled supervision in, asking ‘Come helpus isolate this so we don’t kill the power

water system to the alkylation unit.’Three times they called; three times theywere denied. The line was isolated.

Gabe had gone to a line to open up thepower wash to knock the vapor down.When he opened the valve up there wasnothing there and they (the company)asked why he went to that valve. He wason the Emergency Response Team. Hewas a firefighter prior to coming to workfor Citgo. For him it was second nature.

He tried to knock it (HF vapor) down.There was nothing there and he started torun. He was engulfed. The next thingthat happened he wandered down theunit. His suit melted to him; his hatblown off; his glasses gone; his hairburned off; his eyelashes gone. He fellinto the arms of my vice president, Mr.Charles Wharton.

Taking ActionI called on OSHA. I called on the

Chemical Safety Board. They showed upwith flags flying—oh we’re ready to dosomething—but when they get into aconference with the company they want

to reduce their penalties. Hell no, I don’twant to reduce the penalty. It needs to bemore.

I’ve fought this company since dayone I became president. Three weeksinto my presidency I had a man who waselectrocuted to the point that he lost hisfingers. He’s alive today because weforced the company to give us CPRtraining in order to revive somebodywhen they’re down. They weren’t goingto give it to us. We forced them. We saidwe will not do your electrical work onthe 138th line unless you give us thetraining.

We’ve got to stand up brothers and sis-ters. We can’t just lie down and take it. Iam not going to take it anymore. Weneed to stop talking, stop accepting andget behind the eight ball and do some-thing. We need to write our congress-man, our senators and you young peopleneed to get involved. I’m an oldster. I’mheaded out of this thing. I’ve made it, butmy friends are dying. You’re my friends.I see a lot of old ones out there and I seea lot of new ones that I’ll make friendswith.

But the time has come for us to standup against this monster we call the oilindustry and tell them, by God, we aregoing to work in a safe place.HEALTH & SAFETY

Locals Must Complete Hydrofluoric, Sulfuric Acid Refinery Survey

USW is launching a new nationwidesurvey, the HF and Sulfuric Acid USWRefinery Survey, to document and betterunderstand health, safety, and environ-mental issues related to alkylation unitsand the catalytic chemicals they use—hydrofluoric acid and sulfuric acid.

Hydrofluoric (HF) and sulfuric acidrefinery incidents, in the US, havealready led to workers killed andinjured, thousands of com¬munity resi-dents evacuated and requiring medicalattention, and water-ways polluted.

In March of this year, there were twomajor HF incidents in Pennsylvania. OnMarch 11, 10 workers were injured atthe Sunoco refinery in SouthPhiladelphia due to a release. Then 11days later a truck carrying 33,000pounds of HF on its way to a refinery

overturned, resulting in the evacuationof 5,000 residents north ofPhiladelphia.

Incidents regarding sulfuric acidinclude: A large tank of spent sulfuricacid ignited during nearby hot work atMotiva’s Delaware City refinery; oneworker was killed and eight wereinjured. More than 1 million gallons ofspent acid spilled, with some reachingthe Delaware River and resulting in atoxic plume (7/2001).

Based on these and other tragedies,USW has launched a survey to assessthe extent of potential hazards relatedto alkylation operations and the haz-ardous materials used.

We want to ensure that hazards relat-ed to alkylation processes are mini-mized, controlled, and, where possible,eliminated. The information from the

survey will help us push for neededimprovements, including programs tosupport USW local union leaders, rankand file mem¬bers, and the communi-ties in which we work.

Please complete surveys byNovember 29, 2010. One Refinery, One Survey

Survey materials were mailed tolocal union presidents and staff repre-sentatives the second week inNovember. There will be a single sur-vey completed by each refinery local orunit. Amalgamated locals were mailedsurvey materials for each refining unitthey represent.

Most sites will only be filling outpart of the survey. The survey isdivided into two sections: 1) a sectionon HF, and 2) another on sulfuric acid.



All information is taken from theDepartment of Energy (DOE) website. Forthe complete list of refinery events go towww.oilbargaining.org.

Tesoro Shuts FCC at 166,000 b/d Martinez,California Refinery September 30 Tesoro shut a gasoline-making fluid catalyticcracking unit (FCC) at its 166,000 b/dMartinez, California refinery on September30, trade and industry sources said. The unitwas expected to remain down for approxi-mately one week, according to the sources. http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFWEN06282010100Posted to DOE website 10-1-10.

ConocoPhillips Shuts Unit at 239,400 b/dWestlake Refinery in Louisiana October 2The company reported that an emergency ofan unidentified unit occurred on Saturdayand that a small grass fire resulting from theflaring caused by the shutdown was immedi-ately extinguished. Reuters, 00:06 October 4, 2010. Posted toDOE website 10-4-10.

ConocoPhillips Reports Equipment Upsetat its 260,000 b/d Sweeny Refinery inTexas October 2 In a filing to state regulators, the companyreported a shutdown to repair a leak on thehydrogen quench line leading to reactor #4. http://www11.tceq.state.tx.us/oce/eer/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.getDetails&tar-get=145603 Posted to DOE website 10-4-10.

Update: Citgo Restarts Units, ResumesNormal Operations at 156,000 b/d CorpusChristi, Texas Refinery by October 4 Citgo restarted a crude unit and a fluid cat-alytic cracking unit (FCC) last week at its156,000 b/d Corpus Christi, Texas refinery,and the company returned the units – andthe facility – to planned rates by October 4,a company official said. The FCC shut dueto a compressor fault on September 19, andthe crude unit shut after a brief fire onSeptember 16, according to previoussources. http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20101005-708047.html http://www11.tceq.state.tx.us/oce/eer/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.getDetails&tar-get=145019http://www11.tceq.state.tx.us/oce/eer/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.getDetails&tar-get=144917Reuters, 12:26 September 20, 2010

Reuters, 19:51 September 16, 2010. Postedto DOE website 10-5-10.

Line Rupture Forces Offline MultipleUnits at Flint Hills’ 288,468 b/d CorpusChristi, Texas Refinery October 1A steam line rupture led to the shutdown of acrude distillation unit (CDU) and other,unspecified units on October 1 at Flint HillsResources’ 288,468 b/d Corpus Christi, Texasrefinery, the company said. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSWEN067120101003 Posted to DOE website 10-5-10.

Chevron Restarts SRU after Trip at45,000 b/d Salt Lake City, Utah Refineryby October 5A sulfur recovery unit (SRU) shutdown trig-gered flaring at Chevron’s 45,000 b/d SaltLake City, Utah refinery by October 5, thecompany said in a filing with the NationalResponse Center. Operators restarted theunit, according to the filing. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-05/chevron-says-sulfur-unit-restarted-at-utah-oil-refinery.htmlPosted to DOE website 10-5-10.

Flare System Repairs Trigger Flaring atShell’s 156,400 b/d Martinez, CaliforniaRefinery October 4http://www.oes.ca.gov/Operational/MALHaz.nsf/f1841a103c102734882563e200760c4a/5f62c52bbe8d1df8882577b200664da9?OpenDocument Posted to DOE website 10-5-10.

Fire Forces Shut Hydrotreater atExxonMobil’s 238,600 b/d Joliet, IllinoisRefinery October 5-6An October 5 fire forced offline a dieselhydrotreater at ExxonMobil’s 238,600 b/dJoliet, Illinois refinery, a companyspokesman said on October 6. He did not saywhen the unit might return to service, orwhether the incident had affected production. Reuters, 11:26 October 6, 2010. Posted toDOE website 10-6-10.

Process Upset Leads to Flaring atConocoPhillips’ 146,000 b/d Borger, TexasRefinery October 5http://www11.tceq.state.tx.us/oce/eer/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.getDetails&tar-get=145703 Posted to DOE website 10-6-10.

ConocoPhillips Reports Flaring at120,000 b/d Rodeo, California RefineryOctober 5http://www.oes.ca.gov/Operational/MALHaz.nsf/f1841a103c102734882563e200760c4a/8a02f6ec41d600ec882577b3007bfb01?OpenDocument Posted to DOE website 10-6-10.

Tesoro Reports 20-30 Barrel

Naphtha/Water Spill from Pipeline at97,000 b/d Wilmington, California RefineryOctober 5 – Spill Contained On-Sitehttp://www.oes.ca.gov/Operational/MALHaz.nsf/f1841a103c102734882563e200760c4a/ecd9ef50e9a9444c882577b3005f6048?OpenDocument Posted to DOE website 10-6-10.

ExxonMobil Reports Gas, HydrogenSulfide Leak at 200,700 b/d Chalmette,Louisiana Refinery October 4 ExxonMobil was "in the process of contain-ing a leak of compressed flammable gaswhich contains small amounts of hydrogensulfide," a company spokesman said. Theleak originated from a clamp that had beeninstalled to plug a previous leak, a policeofficial said. A worker died at the Chalmettefacility yesterday, but it was not clear if thedeath was connected to the leak. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-07/exxon-reports-gas-leak-at-chalmette-refinery-update1-.htmlPosted to DOE website 10-7-10.

Hydrogen Plant Shutdown Leads toFlaring at ConocoPhillips’ 120,000 b/dRodeo, California Refinery October 6The shutdown of a “third party hydrogenplant” led to flaring at ConocoPhillips’120,000 b/d Rodeo, California refinery onOctober 6, the company said in a filing withstate regulators. It was not clear if the inci-dent had any impact on production. http://www.oes.ca.gov/Operational/MALHaz.nsf/f1841a103c102734882563e200760c4a/8259fc6fc3d2e1ad882577b5000eb682?OpenDocument Posted to DOE website 10-7-10.

BP Reports FCC-Related Malfunction at467,720 b/d Texas City, Texas Refinery October 10 “The loss of circulation in North Riser” led tothe shutdown of “the Electrostatic Precipitatorin the Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit” (FCC) atBP’s 467,720 b/d Texas City, Texas refinery onOctober 10, the company said in a filing withstate regulators. Operators restarted the affectedElectrostatic Precipitator within minutes,according to the filing. It was not clear if therewas any impact on production.http://www11.tceq.state.tx.us/oce/eer/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.getDetails&target=145872Posted to DOE website 10-12-10.

Valero Sees No Impact on Productionafter SRU Snag at 100,000 b/d ThreeRivers, Texas Refinery October 11-12Valero saw no impact on production after a“process unit upset” related to a sulfur recov-ery unit at its 100,000 b/d Three Rivers, Texas

Process Safety Incidents—Oct. 1—Oct. 28, 2010


refinery on October 11-12, according to acompany spokesman and a filing with stateregulators. http://www11.tceq.state.tx.us/oce/eer/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.getDetails&tar-get=145925http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1217780020101012 Posted to DOE website 10-12-10.

Tesoro Extinguishes Fire at 166,000 b/dRefinery near Martinez, California October 10A fire broke out in a holding tank at Tesoro’s166,000 b/d Golden Eagle refinery nearMartinez, California on October 10, but thecompany extinguished the fire within aboutthree hours. It was not clear if the incidenthad any impact to production. http://www.martinezgazette.com/news/story/i1531/2010/10/12/tesoro-fire-erupts-level-two-warning-activated Posted to DOE web-site 10-13-10.

ExxonMobil Sees No Impact onProduction after Brief Oil Spill at 567,000b/d Baytown, Texas Refinery October 11A "leak at the tank mixer seal" spilled anunspecified quantity of crude oil atExxonMobil's 567,000 b/d Baytown, Texasrefinery on October 11, the company said ina filing with state regulators. The "mixer sealwas isolated," according to the filing. Theincident lasted just 15 minutes and did notaffect production. http://www11.tceq.state.tx.us/oce/eer/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.getDetails&tar-get=145971 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-12/exxon-reports-oil-leak-from-tank-at-bay-town-refinery-update1-.html Posted to DOEwebsite 10-13-10.

Compressor Failure Triggers Flaring atConocoPhillips’ 238,000 b/d Bayway, NewJersey Refinery by October 15 A compressor failure led to flaring atConocoPhillips’ 238,000 b/d Bayway refin-ery in Linden, New Jersey by October 15,according to a regulatory filing. The compa-ny “curtailed the refinery” by an unspecifiedamount, according to Reuters. Reuters, 00:36 October 15, 2010. Posted toDOE website 10-15-10.

Coffeyville Resources Reports EquipmentMalfunction, Hydrogen Sulfide Release at115,700 b/d Coffeyville, Kansas RefineryIt was not clear if the incident had anyimpact on production. Reuters, 01:23 October 15, 2010. Posted toDOE website 10-15-10.


Delek Reports FCC Snag at 58,000 b/dTyler, Texas Refinery October 14“An equipment malfunction” at a gasoline-making fluid catalytic cracking unit (FCC)led to flaring at Delek’s 58,000 b/d Tyler,Texas refinery on October 14, the companysaid in a filing with state regulators.“Operators made adjustments… to stabilizethe unit as quickly as possible,” and the inci-dent lasted only twenty minutes, accordingto the filing. It was not clear if there was anyimpact on production. http://www11.tceq.state.tx.us/oce/eer/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.getDetails&tar-get=146117http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFWEN122220101014 Posted to DOEwebsite 10-15-10.

ExxonMobil Reports Compressor Trip,Flaring at 567,000 b/d Baytown, TexasRefinery October 18ExxonMobil reduced two pipe still units tominimum rates after a “compressor trip” ledto flaring at its 567,000 b/d Baytown, Texasrefinery on October 18, the company said ina filing with state regulators. The incidentdid not impact production. Separately atBaytown, the company began restarting agofiner on October 15, according to anotherregulatory filing. http://www11.tceq.state.tx.us/oce/eer/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.getDetails&tar-get=146247http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFN1719717420101017 Posted to DOEwebsite 10-19-10.

Valero Fixes Leak at 142,000 b/d CorpusChristi, Texas Refinery October 19-20Valero fixed a leak in a butamer unit at its142,000 b/d Corpus Christi, Texas refinery,but the incident did not affect production,according to a regulatory filing and a com-pany spokesman. Reuters, 11:16 October 20, 2010. Posted toDOE website 10-20-10.

Compressor Snag Leads to Flaring atValero’s 135,000 b/d Wilmington,California Refinery October 19The incident did not impact production andoperators restarted the compressor, aspokesman said. The flaring lasted less than45 minutes, according to a regulatory filing. DJN, 13:07 October 20, 2010. Posted toDOE website 10-20-10.

Coffeyville Resources to Shut Unit at115,700 b/d Coffeyville, Kansas Refinery

Coffeyville Resources planned to shut anunidentified unit for repairs at its 115,700b/d Coffeyville, Kansas refinery on October19, the company said in a regulatory filing.The company said a malfunction had led toflaring, but it was unclear if the incident hadany impact on production. Reuters, 00:28 October 20, 2010. Posted toDOE website 10-20-10.

Compressor Trip Leads to Flaring atExxonMobil’s 567,000 b/d Baytown,Texas Refinery October 20 ExxonMobil reduced two pipe still units tominimum rates after a “compressor trip” led toflaring at its 567,000 b/d Baytown, Texas refin-ery on October 20, the company said in a filingwith state regulators. The incident did notimpact production. The company reported asimilar event at the facility on October 20; itwas not clear if the disruptions were related. http://www11.tceq.state.tx.us/oce/eer/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.getDetails&target=146393http://www11.tceq.state.tx.us/oce/eer/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.getDetails&target=146247Posted to DOE website 10-21-10.

Equipment Snag Leads to Flaring atExxonMobil's 238,600 b/d Joliet, IllinoisRefinery October 21The company repaired the equipment, it saidin a filing with state regulators. It was notclear if the incident had any impact on produc-tion. http://tier2.iema.state.il.us/FOIAHazmatSearch/HazmatDetails.aspx?RptNum=H-2010-1148Posted to DOE website 10-22-10.

Multiple Units Malfunction atConocoPhillips’280,000 b/d Bayway Refineryin Linden, New Jersey October 21-25 A gasoline-making unit was operating atreduced rates October 22 after an unplannedcompressor shutdown October 21, but theunit was expected to return to normal ratesby October 23. In an unrelated event, atransformer malfunctioned on October 25,leading to a power outage and flaring. Partof the refinery is currently shut for plannedmaintenance. It is not clear if either eventhad an effect on the refinery’s output. DJN, 11:04 October 25, 2010 http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/local_news/new_jersey/refinery-controlled-burn-in-linden-20101025-KChttp://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2525811520101025http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20101022-708737.html Posted to DOEwebsite 10-25-10.



FCCU Snag at Citgo’s 167,000 b/dLemont, Illinois Refinery Leads toFlaringThe company reported to state regulatorsthat the flaring was caused by “instrumenta-tion issues” at the gasoline-making fluid cat-alytic cracking unit (FCCU). Reuters, 00:08 October 25, 2010. Posted toDOE website 10-25-10.

Malfunction Cuts Steam and HydrogenSupplies at ConocoPhillips’ 120,200 b/dRodeo, California Refinery October 22The company reported October 24 that it isworking to restore the critical systems. It isnot clear if the outages affected production. Reuters, 17:05 October 24, 2010. Posted toDOE website 10-25-10.

Equipment Failure Leads to Flaring atCoffeyville Resource’s 115,700 b/dCoffeyville, Kansas Refinery October 24 It was not clear what caused the unspecifiedunits to malfunction. Reuters, 02:08 October 25, 2010. Posted toDOE website 10-25-10.

Equipment Failure Leads ConocoPhillips’120,000 b/d Rodeo, California Refinery toRelease Unburned Gases October 22 afterFlares Fail to Keep Up – LocalGovernments Issue Emergency Alerts,Though No Illnesses Reported http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/10/22/state/n1644

58D89.DTL&type=newsbayareahttp://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_16409189 Posted to DOE website10-25-10.

Upset Triggers Flaring at ConocoPhillips’239,400 b/d Westlake, Louisiana RefineryOctober 25 A “unit upset” resulted in flaring atConocoPhillips’ 239,400 b/d Westlake,Louisiana refinery on October 25, the com-pany said in a filing with the NationalResponse Center. It was not clear if the inci-dent had any impact on production. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-26/conocophillips-has-unit-upset-at-west-lake-oil-refinery.htmlPosted to DOE website 10-26-10.

Update: Unit Damage Forces Tesoro toPostpone Restart of Explosion-Downed120,000 b/d Anacortes, WashingtonRefinery Tesoro postponed the restart of its 120,000b/d Anacortes, Washington refinery after anexplosion damaged a boiler unit on October24, sources familiar with the facility’s opera-tions said. There were no injuries. A fatalexplosion led Tesoro to shut the refinery inearly April. The company, however, hadexpected to restart it by the end of thismonth. It was not clear how long the inci-dent might delaythose plans. Reuters, 16:06 October 26, 2010. Posted toDOE website 10-27-10.

Valero Reports Leak, Expects Flaring at310,000 b/d Port Arthur, Texas RefineryOctober 26 – November 2A leak in a catalytic reforming unit (CRU)led to flaring at Valero’s 310,000 b/d PortArthur, Texas refinery on October 26, andthe company expected to perform repairsthrough November 2, it said in a filing withstate regulators. The incident did not impactproduction, a spokesman said separately. http://www11.tceq.state.tx.us/oce/eer/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.getDetails&tar-get=146621http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFN2613431020101026 Posted to DOEwebsite 10-27-10.

ConocoPhillips Reports Sulfur DioxideRelease at 120,200 b/d Rodeo, CaliforniaRefinery October 27http://www.oes.ca.gov/Operational/MALHaz.nsf/f1841a103c102734882563e200760c4a/e89f8c61d1a78dee882577c9005b5406?OpenDocument Posted to DOE website 10-28-10.

Underground Line Leaks about 250Barrels at ConocoPhillips’ 100,000 b/dFerndale, Washington Refinery byOctober 27 – Spill Limited to Site ofFacilityhttp://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-28/conoco-has-diesel-spill-at-ferndale-bellingham-herald-says.html Posted to DOEwebsite 10-28-10.

Locals Must Complete Hydrofluoric,Sulfuric Acid Refinery (continued from page 7)Sites using only HF or only sulfuricacid for alkylation will only fill out theappropriate section. Those sites thatuse both HF and sulfuric acid for alky-lation will complete both sections. Theinstructions on the survey will lead youto the right questions to fill out.

Survey Teams at EachRefinery

Because the survey requires differentkinds of knowledge from a number ofmembers to get the whole health andsafety picture, Vice President GaryBeevers is asking each refinery to puttogether a team of the right people tocomplete and return this survey.

Teams should include a survey teamleader, local union leadership and/orexecutive board members, health andsafety committee members, health andsafety and/or TOP Rep(s), health andsafety worker-trainers, and memberswith knowledge of alkylation and relat-ed areas including operations, mainte-nance, PHAs, transport, storage, siting,etc.

If you have questions or need moreinformation, contact Kim Nibarger ofthe Health, Safety and EnvironmentDepartment (412-562-2587 or 412-418-6240) [email protected]; or TomMcQuiston of the Tony MazzocchiCenter (919-929-5878 or 919-260-7835) [email protected]).

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