Scenario

01. Ignorance
02. Insufficient Knowledge
03. Insufficient Study/Experience
04. Organizational Problems
05. Inflexible Management Structure
06. Inadequate information Communication
07. Usage
08. Maintenance/Repair
09. Repair
10. Bad Event
11. Mechanical Event
12. Heat Generation by Over-Tightenning
13. Bad Event
14. Chemical Phenomenon
15. Abnormal Reaction
16. Secondary Damage
17. External Damage
18. Explosion
19. Bodily Harm
20. Injury
21. 8 person injured
22. Loss to Organization
23. Economic Loss
24. Reactor severe damaged

Explosion of azobisisobutyronitrile (AIBN) caused due to overheat from excessive tightening of the gland packing of a drier
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
The materials in a vessel invade into a gasket and a glandpacking. The over tightening of shaft seal generates heat and rersults a trouble.

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)