Scenario

01. Organizational Problems
02. Poor Management
03. Slackness of Management
04. Poor Value Perception
05. Poor Safety Awareness
06. Inadequate Risk Recognition
07. Ignorance
08. Insufficient Knowledge
09. Insufficient Study
10. Planning and Design
11. Poor Planning
12. Poor Storage Plan
13. Usage
14. Transport/Storage
15. Wrong Storge Measure
16. Bad Event
17. Chemical Phenomenon
18. Abnormal Reaction
19. Secondary Damage
20. External Damage
21. Fire/Rapture
22. Bodily Harm
23. Injury
24. 2 person injured
25. Loss to Organization
26. Economic Loss
27. Tank Breakage

Fire due to spontaneous polymerization of vinyl acetate during long-term storage
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
For storage of self-reactive substances, you must keep strictly the storage condition such as addition of polymerization inhibitor and so on.

Field Chemicals and Plants
Author ITAGAKI, Haruhiko (Japan National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health)
TAMURA, Masamitsu (Center for Risk Management and Safety Sciences, Yokohama National University)