Scenario

01. Poor Value Perception
02. Poor Safety Awareness
03. Insufficient Safety Measure
04. Organizational Problems
05. Inflexible Management Structure
06. Insufficient Education/Training
07. Ignorance
08. Insufficient Knowledge
09. Insufficient Study
10. Planning and Design
11. Poor Planning
12. Poor Design
13. Bad Event
14. Thermo-Fluid Event
15. Stagnation
16. Secondary Damage
17. External Damage
18. Explosion
19. Bodily Harm
20. Death

Explosion of a machine for melting and volume reduction of polystyrene foam
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
The result of the work that was done without understanding of genuine danger from design through operation !

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