The blast on board the 1,900-dwt Guard Tide (built 1983) happened during breaking work off Port of Spain, Newsday reported.
One of the workers suffered 75% burns.
Another injured man, Josiah Glasgow, said if it wasn’t for his five-week-old daughter, he would have suffered more seriously.
“It is my daughter who saved my life,” he said. "When I was in the tanker, I decided to take a break on the second level of the ship to call my child’s mother, that was when it happened.
