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The refinery agreed to be the incident site and the scenario acted out
was that of a chemical explosion, with a medical team from the hospital
and seven ambulance crews called out with no warning. The ‘victims’
were 25 off-duty refinery staff and contractors, made up with realistic
wounds by the Red Cross. More volunteers became anxious relatives,
who descended on the hospital clamouring for information about their
loved ones. The police were also involved in Operation Coma, testing
their procedure for matching victims with relatives in an emergency.

Volunteers honed their acting skills; one victim was unconscious after
a piece of metal punctured his abdomen, while another suffered a
dislocated hip and compound leg fracture – complete with a piece of
fake bone jutting out of her skin. It was attached with plasticine and
covered with artificial blood, and she had to wince and scream every
time someone came near. The operation was an opportunity to test the
refinery’s new medical centre too, and was deemed a success, treating
25 patients within less than two hours.

In a conventional refinery, coke is a by-product of crude oil processing,
but the Humber refinery is a coke plant which also makes petroleum
products. A unique feature of the Humber Refinery is its three rotary
calciners each 230ft long which converts raw, or green coke, produced Above: No.2 Calciner.
from crude oil into the marketable regular and premium coke. Two were
part of the refinery’s original construction and a third added in 1974
when a surge in worldwide demand for aluminium had translated into
extra annual demand of 190-200 thousand tons – the equivalent of
one new calciner.