Scenario

01. Organizational Problems
02. Inflexible Management Structure
03. Insufficient Information Transfer
04. Misjudgment
05. Misunderstanding
06. Insufficient Consideration on Instrument Design
07. Non-Regular Operation
08. Emergency Operation
09. Mis-design of Failure Position
10. Planning and Design
11. Poor Planning
12. Problem in Operation Indication
13. Bad Event
14. Chemical Phenomenon
15. Abnormal Reaction
16. Secondary Damage
17. External Damage
18. Explosion
19. Loss to Organization
20. Economic Loss

Explosion during preparation for manufacturing pesticide caused due to stopping of cooling water from a failure position setting error at a control valve
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
Because the temperature control was not made at an emergency case, it was overheated!

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)