February 8, 2018 marked the one-year anniversary of the explosion at PCA in DeRidder that killed 3 employees. According to OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration,  three contract workers were climbing down from an elevated pipe rack when what's called a foul condensate tank exploded. The blast hit the employees and tossed their bodies 200 yards, killing all three.
  The U.S. Chemical Safety Board, based in Washington D.C., sent a team to DeRidder to do an independent probe of the blast. A full report from the investigation is forthcoming but we know that the CSB is working on a video on the incident and its findings. Board Chair Vanessa Allen Sutherland in California said that "Our team has done a great job so far, finding out that the explosion itself involved a large tank, and when that exploded it flew 370 feet over a six-story building before landing on process equipment and we have uncovered that of course that was caused by hot work that was probably being done under and near the tank before the fire occurred," said Sutherland.
  Sutherland says deaths and injuries from hot work happen often and they're trying to address it and improve hot work safety: "Due to the frequency of events we really wanted to uncover why do they happen and what might we learn from this additional incident. Hot work is actually one of our critical safety issues at the Chemical Safety Board.  We are focusing our attention and resources on bringing this issue to light, because a targeted effort, we hope, will reduce the continued, recurring events we see literally on an almost on a weekly basis," she said. 
   Copy and paste the following link into your browser to view a segment that a Local News Station in Louisiana (KPLCtv) aired on the anniversary of the tragic event: http://www.kplctv.com/story/37464987/packaging-corporation-of-america-one-year-since-catastrophic-explosion-in-deridder-killing-three