Want to Reduce WC Costs? Effect Cultural Change

It was just after 9 a.m. on an April morning when a French freighter with ammonium nitrate onboard caught fire while docked in the Port of Texas City. The subsequent explosions and additional fires shattered windows in Houston, some 40 miles from the site. The tragedy claimed nearly 600 lives, including those of the chief and 26 members of the town's fire department, as well as 145 employees from one particular company. The year was 1947 and at the time it was described as the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history. But the tragedy was not entirely in vain. The president of the com...