WOODS CROSS — An explosion rocked south Davis County Wednesday morning, an explosion that some said could be felt as far away as Roy in Weber County.

For the second time this year, the Silver Eagle refinery, 2355 S. 1100 West exploded, shaking buildings, cracking walls and even knocking some buildings near the refinery off their foundations.

Surprisingly, no one was hurt and there were no evacuations.

“How long will it take until the refinery gets it right?” angry Woods Cross resident, Peter Escobar said shortly after the blast. “Someone’s gonna get killed or injured.”

The explosion occurred at 9:13 a.m., when for some reason a petroleum product leaked out of a pipe and into the furnace, according to South Davis Metro Fire Agency deputy chief Jeff Bassett. When the product hit the ignition source it caused the explosion.

Late Wednesday morning Bassett said the refinery’s personnel were working on fixing the pipe.

Silver Eagle’s own fire brigade and SDMFA crews were able to knock the small blaze down in five to 10 minutes, Bassett said.

But because of thick black smoke, many area residents thought there were also fires at other nearby refineries. Bassett said that wasn’t the case. Instead, the explosion caused a power bump, which momentarily took power down throughout the area. That affected systems at the other refineries which had to flare off product already in their systems before they could restart their operations.

By early afternoon, fire crews and Woods Cross employees were surveying damage to homes near the refinery. Three homes to the east of the refinery had severe damage, which Bassett said may even include a home knocked off its foundation and others which suffered structural cracks and broken windows.

Escobar said his house, near the refinery, has cracks in the walls, and his family has been evacuated seven or eight times in the past five to six years. Escobar’s concerns stem from several incidents at the refinery, the latest on Jan. 12, 2009, when a gasoline tank exploded.

That explosion caused the evacuation of homes within a half-mile radius of the refinery and sparked outrage among residents and the city council prompting several meetings with refinery officials and an update to the city’s communication plan in the event of emergencies.

While Monday’s fire caused no evacuations, many residents thought their world was turning upside down.

“We thought something dropped on our house,” said Athena Dayley, who lives about a mile and a half west of the refinery.

Many people throughout South Davis thought the same thing, the noise was so great. “It sounded like a bomb hit us,”said Woods Cross resident Pat Blackley. “It shook the whole house.”