Scenario

01. Poor Value Perception
02. Poor Safety Awareness
03. Inadequate Risk Recognition
04. Organizational Problems
05. Inflexible Management Structure
06. Insufficient Education/Training
07. Misjudgment
08. Misperception
09. Mis-Convincement
10. Planning and Design
11. Poor Planning
12. Poor Start-up Planning
13. Regular Operation
14. Erroneous Operation
15. Selfish Judgment
16. Secondary Damage
17. External Damage
18. Explosion
19. Bodily Harm
20. Injury
21. 3 person injured
22. Loss to Organization
23. Economic Loss
24. Direct Manetary Loss 210 million yen

Explosion and fire of a boiler for power generation on restarting operation
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
Reckless Operation ! They separated the fuel gas in pipings from atmosphere only by one valve at many pipings, moreover the valves opened slightly.

Field Chemicals and Plants
Author WAKAKURA, Masahide (Kanagawa Industrial Technology Research Institute)
YOSHINAGA, Jun (Graduate School of New Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo)
TAMURA, Masamitsu (Center for Risk Management and Safety Sciences, Yokohama National University)