{"id":39651,"date":"2025-03-12T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=39651"},"modified":"2025-03-12T22:30:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T03:30:57","slug":"scaffolding-collapse-injures-workers-at-chevron-texas-refinery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=39651","title":{"rendered":"Scaffolding collapse injures workers at Chevron Texas refinery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">HOUSTON, March 12 (Reuters) &#8211; A scaffolding collapse on Wednesday at Chevron&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/companies\/CVX.N\"><u>(CVX.N), opens new tab<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;Pasadena, Texas, refinery injured three workers, a Chevron spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">One of the three contract workers was flown by helicopter to a Houston-area hospital due to the severity of injuries received, according to the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The other two workers were taken to a hospital by ambulance, Chevron&#8217;s spokesperson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The three were demolishing the scaffolding when it collapsed, the company said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Refineries erect scaffolding around production units that are undergoing planned overhauls or unplanned repairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/scaffolding-collapse-injures-workers-chevron-texas-refinery-sources-2025-03-12\/\">reuters<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON, March 12 (Reuters) &#8211; A scaffolding collapse on Wednesday at Chevron&#8217;s&nbsp;(CVX.N), opens new tab&nbsp;Pasadena, Texas, refinery injured three workers, a Chevron spokesperson said in a statement. One of the three contract workers was flown by helicopter to a Houston-area hospital due to the severity of injuries received, according to the company. The other two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":39652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5784],"tags":[32664,2735,32665,1298],"class_list":["post-39651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-chevron","tag-refinery","tag-scaffolding","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39653,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39651\/revisions\/39653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}