Scenario

01. Poor Value Perception
02. Poor Safety Awareness
03. Inadequate Risk Recognition
04. Insufficient Analysis or Research
05. Insufficient Prior Research
06. Insufficient Gathering of External Information
07. Planning and Design
08. Poor Planning
09. Poor Design
10. Bad Event
11. Chemical Phenomenon
12. Oxidation/Heat Accumulation
13. Failure
14. Large-Scale Damage
15. Rapture
16. Secondary Damage
17. External Damage
18. Fire/Leakage
19. Loss to Organization
20. Economic Loss
21. Direct Monetary Damage 15 million yen

Fire due to heat accumulation from oxidation of stuck materials on the wall of a blown asphalt tank of a refinery
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
They overlooked the behavior of the light hydrocabons in the blown asphaltl, and an explosion occurred.

Field Chemicals and Plants
Author WADA, Yuji (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)
TAMURA, Masamitsu (Center for Risk Management and Safety Sciences, Yokohama National University)