Scenario

01. Misjudgment
02. Misperception
03. Misread
04. Organizational Problems
05. Poor Management
06. Insufficient Preparation
07. Usage
08. Maintenance/Repair
09. Regular Operation
10. Erroneous Operation
11. Mistake of Operation Object
12. Bad Event
13. Mechanical Event
14. Rapture Disk Operated
15. Secondary Damage
16. External Damage
17. Fire

Fire from a vent stack of an extruder during a shutdown at a polyethylene manufacturing plant
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
Insufficient preparation for the turnaround shutdown may result a fire.

Field Chemicals and Plants
Author WAKAKURA, Masahide (Kanagawa Industrial Technology Research Institute)
TAMURA, Masamitsu (Center for Risk Management and Safety Sciences, Yokohama National University)