Scenario

01. Poor Value Perception
02. Poor Safety Awareness
03. Inadequate Risk Recognition
04. Carelessness
05. Insufficient Precaution
06. Inadequate Handling
07. Ignorance
08. Insufficient Knowledge
09. Poor Experience
10. Planning and Design
11. Poor Planning
12. Poor Purge Planning
13. Regular Operation
14. Nonobservance of Procedure
15. Malfunction
16. Poor Hardware
17. Cavitation
18. Secondary Damage
19. External Damage
20. Explosion
21. Bodily Harm
22. Injury
23. Loss to Organization
24. Economic Loss
25. Direct Monetary Damage 5 million yen

Explosion caused due to generation of a combustible gas-air mixture at a naphthalene oxidation reaction plant
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
Steam invaded into a process piping during turnaround shutdown maintenance and a trouble occurred at start-up. Never directly connect process piping with utility piping.

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)