Worker Falls 120 Feet At Corpus Christi Refinery

A worker has died from injuries sustained in a fall on Monday night at Citgo Petroleum Corp’s [PDVSAC.UL] Corpus Christi, Texas, refinery, said sources familiar with operations there. The man was working on the gasoline-producing 69,000-barrel-per-day Fluidic Catalytic Cracking Unit No. 2 at the 163,000 bpd refinery when he fell. The worker sustained multiple injuries and was taken to an area hospital, where he later died, the sources said. A Citgo spokesman was not immediately available to discuss the incident. The man was working on a portion of the unit about 120 feet above the ground, the sources said.