Scenario

01. Organizational Problems
02. Poor Management
03. Poor Operation Management
04. Poor Value Perception
05. Poor Safety Awareness
06. Inadequate Risk Recognition
07. Ignorance
08. Insufficient Knowledge
09. Insuficient Study and Experience
10. Malicious Act
11. Rule Violation
12. Safety Rule Violation
13. Bad Event
14. Chemical Phenomenon
15. Coking
16. Failure
17. Large-Scale Damage
18. Leakage
19. Secondary Damage
20. External Damage
21. Explosion
22. Loss to Organization
23. Economic Loss
24. Direct Monetary Damage 190 million yen

Leakage and fire caused due to a rupture of a heating furnace tube from unbalanced heating at a heating furnace of a fuel oil direct desulfurization unit
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
Firing only inlet side burner of the furnace resulted the coking ! Nobody did such a obvious design.

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