Scenario

01. Organizational Problems
02. Poor Management
03. Slackness of Management
04. Poor Value Perception
05. Poor Safety Awareness
06. Inadequate Risk Recognition
07. Insufficient Analysis or Research
08. Insufficient Prior Research
09. Structure of Equipment and Danger based on It
10. Planning and Design
11. Poor Planning
12. Poor Design
13. Usage
14. Maintenance/Repair
15. Insufficient Cleaning
16. Bad Event
17. Chemical Phenomenon
18. Heat Generation
19. Secondary Damage
20. External Damage
21. Explosion

Explosion in dead space of a reactor at a naphthalene oxidation plant
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
The dangerous material accumulated by insufficient cleaning of the reactor.

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)