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Meineke. we have the coolest customers. all right, day 61 of the gulf oil disaster and bp is still trying to contain and clean up all of that oil. meanwhile, a texas refinery explosion back in 2005 is the focus of a cnn exclusive investigation. and we're finding a paper trail that speaks to what some claim is the real culture at bp. putting profit above all else, including safety. abbie boudreau has this special investigation.

All but one of his cases reached a settlement with bp. kuehne uncovered more than 7 million internal bp documents during his investigation. sometimes people find one smoking gun document. but we've seen a lot of these documents. there's one after another after another. >> you look for that one smoking gun where somebody internally says if we don't fix this we're going to have a problem. and in this case what was shocking was that we didn't just find that smoking gun. we found an entire arsenal. >> reporter: bp would never have wanted these documents out? >> oh, no. i don't think anybody that h...

All right. well before the current crisis in the gulf, some bp employees were charging the oil giant fostered a culture of profit over safety. well, a culture that left many bp field workers in fear for their lives, they say. the situation came into sharp focus during bp's handling of another deadly disaster five years ago. a refinery explosion in texas that killed 15 people and injured 180 more. here's part two of abbie boudreau's exclusive investigation. >> reporter: brent coon represented many of the victims from the 2005 texas city refinery explosion. he says bp has a history of covering u...

>> reporter: brent represented many of the victims from the 2005 texas city refinery explosion. he says bp has a history of covering up its problems. he showed cnn employee surveys from the texas city site from 2004 and 2005. complaints to management about corners being cut. and dangerous conditions being ignored. what stood out to you? >> the rank and file of the people that worked there had been begging for safety at so many different levels for so long and all on deaf ears. >> reporter: in one survey a worker said, quit waiting for a known possible unit disaster to happen before correct the...

>> one, two, or three flames and they are still being fueled by whatever is running through those lines. >> reporter: these are images from a different bp explosion. from five years ago. at a bp refinery in texas city, texas. 15 workers were killed. 180 injured. >> this is something you're never going to get over. >> never. as long as i'm alive, as long as i have this back pain, as long as i have my neck pain, every time that i try to get out of bed or every time that i try to bend over, thank you, bp, this is what you done to me. >> reporter: miguel survived the texas city explosion in 2005. ...