Scenario

01. Poor Value Perception
02. Poor Safety Awareness
03. Inadequate Risk Recognition
04. Insufficient Analysis or Research
05. Insufficient Practice
06. Lack of Imagination
07. Ignorance
08. Insufficient Knowledge
09. Insufficient Study
10. Planning and Design
11. Poor Planning
12. Poor Tankage Planning
13. Bad Event
14. Chemical Phenomenon
15. Abnormal Reaction
16. Secondary Damage
17. External Damage
18. Explosion
19. Loss to Organization
20. Economic Loss
21. Waste WaterTank Burn-up

Explosion and fire caused due to a combustible gas-air mixture generated in a toluene drain tank sealed with nitrogen at a hydroquinone manufacturing plant
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
Waste water from the plant includes many kind of organics. It is a king of contamination danger.

Field Chemicals and Plants
Author DOBASHI, Ritsu (School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo)
TAMURA, Masamitsu (Center for Risk Management and Safety Sciences, Yokohama National University)