Scenario

01. Poor Value Perception
02. Poor Safety Awareness
03. Inadequate Risk Recognition
04. Ignorance
05. Insufficient Knowledge
06. Convincement
07. Usage
08. Maintenance/Repair
09. No repair for 30 years
10. Failure
11. Fracture/Damage
12. Fatugue
13. Bad Event
14. Mechanical Event
15. Friction
16. Secondary Damage
17. External Damage
18. Fire
19. Loss to Organization
20. Economic Loss
21. Direct Monetary Damage 50 million yen

Fire due to accumulated material in an exhaust gas duct at a finishing section of a synthetic rubber plant
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
Having not overhauled for 30 years, the impeller of the fan broke.

Field Chemicals and Plants
Author KOSEKI, Hirosi (National Research Institute of Fire and Disaster)
TAMURA, Masamitsu (Center for Risk Management and Safety Sciences, Yokohama National University)