Scenario

01. Poor Value Perception
02. Poor Safety Awareness
03. Inadequate Risk Recognition
04. Organizational Problems
05. Inflexible Management Structure
06. Insufficient Education/Training
07. Insufficient Analysis or Research
08. Insufficient Practice
09. Lack of Imagination
10. Usage
11. Operation/Use
12. Planning and Design
13. Poor Planning
14. Poor Design
15. Bad Event
16. Thermo-Fluid Event
17. Static Electricity
18. Secondary Damage
19. External Damage
20. Explosion
21. Bodily Harm
22. Injury

Dust explosion of purified anthracene powder in a weighing hopper
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
Because the dust in the vessel cannot be seen, it may be thought to be handled easy. When the flammable dust is floating in the air, you must treat it just like flammable gas.

Field Chemicals and Plants
Author KOBAYASHI, Mitsuo (Office K)
TAMURA, Masamitsu (Center for Risk Management and Safety Sciences, Yokohama National University)