Scenario

01. Insufficient Analysis or Research
02. Insufficient Practice
03. Lack of Imagination
04. Poor Value Perception
05. Poor Safety Awareness
06. Insufficient Safety Measure
07. Misjudgment
08. Misperception
09. Mis-Convincement
10. Neutralization Reaction
11. Planning and Design
12. Poor Planning
13. Poor Design
14. Regular Operation
15. Nonobservance of Procedure
16. Procedure Ignorance
17. Bad Event
18. Chemical Phenomenon
19. Abnormal Reaction
20. Secondary Damage
21. External Damage
22. Explosion
23. Bodily Harm
24. Death
25. Bodily Harm
26. Injury
27. Loss to Organization
28. Economic Loss
29. Direct Monetary Damage 48 million yen

Explosion of hydrogen peroxide due to the change of a feeding line to a vessel at a surfactant manufacturing plant
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
It is irreponsible not to remodel the plant as it was, if the plant was unsuitable for operation.

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)