Scenario

01. Poor Value Perception
02. Poor Safety Awareness
03. Inadequate Risk Recognition
04. Carelessness
05. Insufficient Understanding
06. Insufficient Recognition of Risk
07. Usage
08. Maintenance/Repair
09. Insufficient Inspection
10. Planning and Design
11. Poor Planning
12. Poor Design
13. Bad Event
14. Thermo-Fluid Event
15. Erosion by Turbulant Flow
16. Failure
17. Abrasion
18. Corrosion
19. Secondary Damage
20. External Damage
21. Explosion/Fire
22. Loss to Organization
23. Economic Loss
24. Direct Monetary Damage 14 million yen

Fire caused due to a thunderbolt that struck piping at a vinyl chloride monomer manufacturing plant
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
An erosion may occur easily at the turbulent flow.

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