Scenario

01. Poor Value Perception
02. Poor Safety Awareness
03. Insufficient Safety Measure
04. Ignorance
05. Insufficient Knowledge
06. Insufficient Study/Experience
07. Planning and Design
08. Poor Planning
09. Poor Design
10. Regular Operation
11. Erroneous Operation
12. Temperature abnormal high
13. Bad Event
14. Chemical Phenomenon
15. Abnormal Reaction
16. Secondary Damage
17. External Damage
18. Explosion
19. Bodily Harm
20. Death
21. 8 person died
22. Bodily Harm
23. Injury
24. 117 person injured
25. Loss to Organization
26. Economic Loss
27. Tank Completely Raptured

Explosion due to hypergolic hazards in the intermediate tank of a propylene oxide manufacturing plant
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
Never install a common tank without thinking of reaction danger by the substances coming into the tank. Blowdown materials could not be predicted perfectly.

Field Chemicals and Plants
Author ARAI, Mitsuru (Environmental Science Center, The University of Tokyo)
TAMURA, Masamitsu (Center for Risk Management and Safety Sciences, Yokohama National University)