Scenario

01. Organizational Problems
02. Inflexible Management Structure
03. Insufficient Education/Training
04. Insufficient Analysis or Research
05. Insufficient Practice
06. Lack of Imagination
07. Planning and Design
08. Poor Planning
09. Bad Event
10. Chemical Phenomenon
11. Abnormal Reaction
12. Secondary Damage
13. External Damage
14. Explosion
15. Failure
16. Large-Scale Damage
17. Leakage
18. Secondary Damage
19. External Damage
20. Fire
21. Bodily Harm
22. Death
23. Bodily Harm
24. Injury
25. 3 person injured
26. Loss to Organization
27. Economic Loss
28. Manetary Damage 1500 million yen
29. Damage to Society
30. Social Systems Failure
31. Big Blow to Semiconductor Manufacture

Explosion of a DMSO recovery drum caused due to foreign material contamination at an epoxy resin manufacturing plant
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
If a contamination hazards was not foreseen at the basic design stage, it is very difficult to revise at the folliwing stage.

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