Scenario

01. Poor Value Perception
02. Poor Safety Awareness
03. Inadequate Risk Recognition
04. Ignorance
05. Insufficient Knowledge
06. Insufficient Experience and Study
07. Planning and Design
08. Poor Planning
09. Poor Depressure Planning at Purge
10. Malicious Act
11. Rule Violation
12. Indication Violation
13. Bad Event
14. Thermo-Fluid Event
15. Heating by Local Compression Process
16. Secondary Damage
17. External Damage
18. Explosion
19. Bodily Harm
20. Injury
21. 2 person injured
22. Loss to Organization
23. Economic Loss
24. Manetary Damage 40 million yen

Explosion caused due to a high temperature from adiabatic compression during transferring high-pressure air at a polyethylene manufacturing plant
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
Why did the adiabatic compression occur during depressurizing? If the gas was oxygen, it was very dangerous oxidizer !

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