Scenario

01. Poor Value Perception
02. Poor Safety Awareness
03. Ignorance of Secure Detrioration of Cooling Ability
04. Insufficient Analysis or Research
05. Insufficient Prior Research
06. Insufficient Study of Reaction Danger
07. Planning and Design
08. Poor Planning
09. No Emwegency Blowdown
10. Usage
11. Maintenance/Repair
12. Oversight of Corrosion
13. Non-Regular Action
14. Inaction
15. No Action against Temperature Rising
16. Malfunction
17. Poor Hardware
18. Decline of Heat Transfer Capacity
19. Bad Event
20. Chemical Phenomenon
21. Abnormal Reaction
22. Failure
23. Large-Scale Damage
24. Rapture
25. Bodily Harm
26. Injury

Rupture of a reactor caused by an abnormal reaction due to lowered cooling ability of the reactor on manufacturing a pharmaceutical intermediate
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
By not finding the corrosion, temperature rising resulted an abnormal reaction.

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)