Scenario

01. Poor Value Perception
02. Poor Safety Awareness
03. Insufficient Safety Measure
04. Insufficient Analysis or Research
05. Insufficient Practice
06. Lack of Imagination
07. Planning and Design
08. Poor Planning
09. Poor Piping Design
10. Usage
11. Maintenance/Repair
12. Wrong Gasket Monuting
13. Malfunction
14. Poor Hardware
15. Gasket Leak
16. Secondary Damage
17. External Damage
18. Fire
19. Loss to Organization
20. Economic Loss
21. Manetary Damage 25 million yen

Fire of gas oil caused due to leakage from a bonnet flange of a valve usually not used at an atmospheric distillation unit
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
A flange was mounted just above the hot temperature pump ! The fire did not occur if the position had been slightly different.

Field Chemicals and Plants
Author WAKAKURA, Masahide (Kanagawa Industrial Technology Research Institute)
TAMURA, Masamitsu (Center for Risk Management and Safety Sciences, Yokohama National University)