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Several openings for volunteer
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(See EMERGENCIES, page 2)
Additional Volunteers Will Be Needed As Firemen This Year
Here's Summary Of Emergencies In 1974
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ups in the lines going to the
manifold until about 5 p.m. Sun-
day, February 10.
Volunteer firemen were called
out a total of 26 limes last year.
Most of the callouts involved
fires, but some were “standbys”
for potentially hazardous situa-
tions.
Of the 26 callouts, 16 were in
the Refinery, nine in the Chem-
ical Plant, and one at ER&E.
Boyd’s records of the callouts
reveal that 14 of the emergencies
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ceived their bond by February 8
should call Carl Marlin at United
Jewelers, phone 427-6641.
Pictured above is safety bond Refinery employees will receive. On back
of bond will be employee’s name, plus safety bond rules.
BAYTOWN BRIEFS
Published for employees of Exxon Company, U.S.A.’s Baytown Refinery, Exxon' Research and Engineering Company’s
Exxon Research Center, and Exxon Chemical Company U.S.A.’s Baytown Chemical Plant
Dale Henson, machinist, seated; Tom Stephens, operating supervisor on
the PAU start up team, center; and Joe Clayton, night superintendent,
are shown at award-presentation ceremonies.
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SAFETY CREED
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Let No Unsafe Art Go Unchallenged.
Let No Unsafe Condition Go
Uncorrected or Unreported,
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Chemical Plant Wins
President's Award
For the third year in a row
Baytown Chemical Plant em-
ployees in 1974 won the Pres-
ident’s Award for safety. On
January 24, President J. C.
Morley and Executive Vice
President M. E. Gillis, Exxon
Chemical USA, presented the
award to Chemical Plant em-
ployees and congratulated them
on a tour of the plant. Photos
showing Morley and Gillis visit-
ing with Chemical Plant em-
ployees will be included in the
February Briefs.
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safely performance contributed.
Employees who have not re- Ld
to 12 shift.
By months, volunteer firemen
answered the greatest number of
calls in October, when they re-
sponded to six emergencies.
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producing paraxylene at a brand
new unit in their area.
After pulling the new Paraxy-
lene Absorption Unit on stream
late in December, the PAU start
up team had debugged the new
equipment and produced the first
on-test paraxylene on January 1.
The start up team was pre-
sented an award for this good
achievement by Vice President
Dan Sanders, Exxon Chemical
USA-Chemical Raw Materials,
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December, and one each in
March, July, and August. There
were no fires in January, April,
or November.
As for days of the week, Tues-
days and Fridays were the worst
in 1975, with six fires on each of
those days. There were four each
on Wednesdays and Thursdays,
three on Saturdays, two on Mon-
days, and only one Sunday fire
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. Safety Bonds Effective February 1
Refinery employees’ safety becoming more valuable. The A disabling injury sustained
awards program for 1975 fea- first goal April 1 is worth $8, the at work by a Refinery employee i
tures a safety bond going into second July 1 is worth $12, the invalidates the next goal, and I
effect February 1. If Refinery third October 1 is worth $16, and each successive disabling injury I
employees have no disabling in- the final goal December 24 is will invalidate each successive |
juries at work during the last worth $20. goal. I
11 months of the year, the bond The goal awards on the bond For example, if the April 1 I
will be worth $56 in merchandise may be redeemed at completion goal is achieved, then Refinery I
at a local slore at the end of the of a particular slep, or the employees sustain two disabling ’
year. awards may be accumulated and injuries at work during the see” n
The safety bond has four steps, the bond redeemed for its full ond quarter both the July 1 and Process Technicians Charlie Becka, left, and Aubrey Stuart, right,
or goals, one at the end of each value at completion of the final OcX invali PAU start UP award from Vice President Dan Sanders,
quarter, with each successive goal goal. dated.
Should a third disabling injury
occur prior to reaching the De-
cember goal, that goal would also
be invalidated.
The bonds, along with an ex-
planatory letter, were being
mailed to all Refinery employees
late in January. Each employee
is responsible for the safekeeping
of the 1975 bond, as il is not
replaceable.
Eligibility is limited lo cm-
Blimp At The Butyl Plant?
During recent weeks, motorists blimp behind the hedgerow sepa- big air bag behind the Chemical
on Bayway Drive have been see- rating the road and the Butyl Plant hedge, see story and addi-
ing what appears to be a big Plant. To find out more about the tional pictures on page 8.
“Except for the CLEU I fire
last February, fire experiences in
the plants during 1974 were
about the same as they have been
for the past several years,” ac-
cording to Fire Chief Jim Boyd.
The CLEU fire, which resulted
in shutdown of both the Refinery
and Chemical Plant for several
days, was the first fire that the
plants’ volunteer firemen battled
in 1974, and by far the worst.
“In fact, this was the worst fire
in the plants since the volunteer
fire force was organized early
in 1962,” Boyd says. The fire
started in a pipe manifold about
8:15 a.m. Friday, February 8,
and firemen fought the initial
blaze for several hours, then
stood by to extinguish fire flare-
John Costolnick at the presenta-
tion. The award commemorating
the start up is displayed in the
Northwest Chemicals area con-
trol center.
Participating in the start up of
the new unit were employees of
the Chemical Plant’s operating,
technical, mechanical, engineer-
ing, and laboratory groups.
“Employees involved in the
start up did an outstanding job
getting this new equipment on
stream and producing on-specifi-
cation product in just a short
lime” says Project Manager Don
Williams, Chemicals Engineering
Division.
The PAU essentially doubles
the Chemical Plant’s capacity for
producing paraxylene, and com-
pletes Baytown’s current para-
xylene expansion program.
The new unit has about the
same capacity as the older Para-
xylene Extraction Unit, built in
1953, but is designed to extract
a higher percentage of para-
xylene from the feed stock. It
utilizes a process which is com-
pletely different from the process
used at the older paraxylene-
producing facility.
The PAU charges a feed
stream composed primarily of
xylenes and isomers from the
Naphtha Rerun Unit. The para-
xylene produced at the unit is
marketed along with that pro-
duced at the PXU.
Paraxylene raw material pro-
duced at the Chemical Plant is
used in production of polyester
fibers. These fibers are used in
manufacture of clothes, tires, and
various other consumer products.
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Operating New Facility
Employees in the Northwest and were commended by Sanders
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Lee, O. B. Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 01, Ed. 1, January 1975, newspaper, January 1975; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1433600/m1/1/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.