Scenario

01. Organizational Problems
02. Inflexible Management Structure
03. Insufficient Education
04. Poor Value Perception
05. Poor Safety Awareness
06. Inadequate Risk Recognition
07. Ignorance
08. Insufficient Knowledge
09. Insufficient Study of Danger of Treating Material
10. Planning and Design
11. Poor Planning
12. Poor Quantity Control
13. Regular Movement
14. Careless Movement
15. Contamination under Unconsciousness
16. Bad Event
17. Chemical Phenomenon
18. Spontaneous Ignition
19. Secondary Damage
20. External Damage
21. Explosion/Fire

Ignition caused due to contamination of impurities during storage of methyl ethyl ketone peroxide
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
Because of receiving an excess quantiry of the dangerous material, the remainings which was contaminated with impurities, was returned to the storage place. An explosion occrred.

Field Chemicals and Plants
Author OGAWA, Terushige (Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University)
TAMURA, Masamitsu (Center for Risk Management and Safety Sciences, Yokohama National University)