BP paid $6.5 million in civil penalties for illegally dumping hazardous waste at an oil field. Two workers are killed and another is seriously injured at the Texas City refinery after they are burned by superheated water.The Occupational Safety and Health Administration slaps the company with a $109,500 fine for multiple safety violations Refinery Explosion in Texas City kills 15, injures 170 ; that refinery had reported three fatal accidents in the past decade. BP set aside $1.6 billion for private lawsuits stemming from the accident. Thunder Horse, where hundreds of pieces of equipment are created, had a near disaster when a faulty control system opened valves and allowed water to flood into the hull of a drilling platform there. OSHA added BP to internal watch list of companies for being “indifferent to its legal obligations to protect employee safety.” An explosion and fire at the Texas City refinery forces BP to shut down all three of its hydrotreating trains.Local residents are told to remain indoors as a precaution.An investigation finds that the explosion was due to lack of maintenance. BP Suffered the most work-related fatalities in the U.S. Refining Industry A fire at BP's Chocolate Bayou petrochemical plant forces an emergency shutdown.The fire burns for two days. Fortunately, no one was injured. A leak at the Texas City refinery resulted in a "shelter in place” order for nearby residents. BP’s Alaska operations cited 8 times in 7 years by EPA for lapses in their environmental practices 267,000 gallon spill in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska due to corroded, uncleaned pipelines. Company officials acknowledged they had not internally cleaned the pipelines in question for well over a decade before the spill. BP fined $50 Million for not following Clean Air Act Safety Guidelines during 2005 Texas City refinery explosion. A BP refinery in Toledo, Ohio, was fined $3 Million earlier this year for ‘willful’ safety violations, including the use of valves similar to those that contributed to the Texas City blast.