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. Insuficient Study and Experience
10. Planning and Design
11. Poor Planning
12. Regular Operation
13. Erroneous Operation
14. Closing Valves by Mistake
15. Bad Event
16. Chemical Phenomenon
17. Pressure Rise
18. Failure
19. Large-Scale Damage
20. Rapture
21. Secondary Damage
22. External Damage
23. Explosion
24. Bodily Harm
25. Injury
26. 2 person injured
27. Loss to Organization
28. Economic Loss
29. Manetary Damage 14 million yen

Rupture, explosion and fire caused due to pressure rise during cleaning operation for a distillation kettle
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
Inner pressure rose and the vessel ruptured by all the valve closing in errouneous operation and by too hot heating medium.

Field Chemicals and Plants
Author KOSEKI, Hirosi (National Research Institute of Fire and Disaster)
TAMURA, Masamitsu (Center for Risk Management and Safety Sciences, Yokohama National University)