No Place to Hang Out: The Danger of Oil Sites

No Place to Hang Out, a new CSB safety video, tells the tragic story of Devon Byrd and Wade White, two Mississippi teenagers who were killed October 31, 2009, in an oil tank explosion. Narrated and filmed with the help of Devon and Wade's parents and friends, the goal of the video is to help educate young people and others about the danger from explosions at unsecured oil and gas production sites.

Category:

Education

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• oil
• gas
• well
• production
• tank
• explosion
• fire
• fence
• fencing
• gate
• barrier
• warning
• sign
• danger
• security
• regulations
• Mississippi
• Devon
• Byrd
• Wade
• White
• Forrest
• County
• ignition
• vapor
• distillate
• hydrocarbon
• Chemical
• Safety
• Board
• CSB

[kenzielou516]

this touches me because my teacher in 6 th grade was devons aunt and she showed this to me i remeber trying not to cry

[rawtorque]

@RainJetSprinklers

Yes, it's up to the states. The production tanks I've seen here in Calif. are fenced off.

[aggie562012]

@lisbethmobile

I am very sorry to hear of you losing your son. I know the pains and long nights you have been through. This danger was NOT one that I was aware of or anyone in the community. My concern that day was to know he was off of the road. I mistakenly thought he was safe at that point. He hunted all of the time and apparently his friend, Wade that was also killed, hunted at this spot all of the time. Please inform everyone you know of this danger. Thank you for your positive comments.

[julesman]

I am absolutely staggered that there appears to be no legal requirement to secure dangerous facilities such as these in the US? What a waste of young lives...

[ingramjri]

By the time this video was made this site should have been secured! Why wasn't that immediately required of the company owning the site?

[esarlls3]

We watched this video yesterday at an offshore safety meeting. Very well done. Prayers for the families impacted by this avoidable accident. Hopefully the increased awareness brought about by this video will result in better protection of existing hazards until they are cleaned up and prevent further suffering by other families.

[KernalFerrett11]

What moves through us is a silence, a quiet sadness, a longing for one more day, one more word, one more touch, we may not understand why you left this earth so soon, or why you left before we were ready to say good-bye, but little by little, we begin to remember not just that you died, but that you lived. And that your life gave us memories too beautiful to forget. I will always love you guys.

[RainJetSprinklers]

Mississippi is a country-mile behind California when it comes to securing tank farms and other well sites. Here I know for certain there must be a fence 6 feet high surrounding any well site and I'm almost certain that also applies to tank farms.

[gnajenkins]

I'm so proud of the Byrd and White families for trying to turn this tragedy into an educational tool for others. Love you guys so much.

[aggie562012]

This video was made solely to prevent this from ever happening again to another person. Anyone that has children should watch this and discuss the dangers with them.