Scenario

01. Ignorance
02. Insufficient Knowledge
03. Insufficient Experience/Study
04. Organizational Problems
05. Inflexible Management Structure
06. Insufficient Education/Training
07. Planning and Design
08. Poor Planning
09. Poor Design
10. Production
11. Hardware Production
12. Wrong Piping Construction
13. Failure
14. Fracture/Damage
15. Cast Iron Valve Damage
16. Secondary Damage
17. External Damage
18. Leakage

Leakage of fuel oil caused due to damage to a valve made of cast iron at a refinery
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
Insufficient design standeard and/or lack of study induces an accident. We do not recover the wrong design by operation.

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)