Scenario

01. Poor Value Perception
02. Poor Safety Awareness
03. Insufficient Safety Countermeasure
04. Organizational Problems
05. Poor Management
06. Inadequate Operation Management
07. Insufficient Analysis or Research
08. Insufficient Prior Research
09. No Study on Reaction Danger
10. Polymerization Reaction
11. Regular Operation
12. Erroneous Operation
13. Delay of Work
14. Bad Event
15. Chemical Phenomenon
16. Abnormal Reaction
17. Secondary Damage
18. External Damage
19. Explosion
20. Bodily Harm
21. Death
22. Bodily Harm
23. Injury
24. Loss to Organization
25. Economic Loss

Explosion of the co-existing system of epichlorohydrin and dimethylsulfoxide in epoxy resin manufacturing at the waste treating plant
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
A distillation is a concentration operation at high temperature with many dangers.

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