United National Insurance v. Hydro Tank, Inc.

EDITH H. JONES, Chief Judge:

This insurance coverage dispute requires the interpretation of an insurance policy’s Pollution Exclusion clause and a Contractors Limitation Endorsement Clause. Finding no error in the district *447court’s conclusion that coverage was barred by the first clause and not resurrected by the latter one, we AFFIRM.

I. BACKGROUND

Three Hydro Tank workers were injured in July 2002 while removing petroleum-byproduct sludge from a mixing tank owned and operated by Appellant Motiva Enterprises at its Port Arthur, Texas, refinery. Shortly after entering the tank, two of the workers…