Scenario

01. Ignorance
02. Insufficient Knowledge
03. Insufficient Study of Heat Stability
04. Poor Value Perception
05. Poor Safety Awareness
06. Inadequate Risk Recognition
07. Malicious Act
08. Rule Violation
09. Heating without Temperature Measurment
10. Planning and Design
11. Poor Planning
12. Only One Thermometer for Important Temperature Control
13. Bad Event
14. Chemical Phenomenon
15. Abnormal Reaction
16. Secondary Damage
17. External Damage
18. Explosion

Explosion of DMTP caused due to improper temperature control at a manufacturing plant of pesticide intermediates
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
An explosion occurred due to heating without any thermometer

Field Chemicals and Plants
Author YOSHINAGA, Jun (Graduate School of New Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo)
TAMURA, Masamitsu (Center for Risk Management and Safety Sciences, Yokohama National University)