Scenario

01. Poor Value Perception
02. Poor Safety Awareness
03. Inadequate Risk Recognition
04. Ignorance
05. Insufficient Knowledge
06. Insuficient Experience
07. Usage
08. Disposal
09. Separation of Gas from Waste Water
10. Planning and Design
11. Poor Planning
12. Poor Planningof Tank Opening to Atmosphere
13. Bad Event
14. Chemical Phenomenon
15. Burning
16. Secondary Damage
17. External Damage
18. Fire
19. Bodily Harm
20. Injury
21. 6 peson injured

Fire caused due to flammable iron sulfide generated in a drainage tank of an oil refinery
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
A waste water includes many kinds of substances. Sometimes operators work near a tank without knowing the substances in the vapor layer of the tank. It is very dangerous.

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