Scenario

01. Poor Value Perception
02. Poor Safety Awareness
03. Inadequate Risk Recognition
04. Organizational Problems
05. Poor Management
06. Slackness of Management
07. Planning and Design
08. Poor Planning
09. Wrong Environment Setting
10. Secondary Damage
11. External Damage
12. Dust Explosion
13. Bodily Harm
14. Death
15. Loss to Organization
16. Economic Loss
17. Damage of House, etc. 9 million yen

Explosion and fire during grinding aluminum at a metal powder factory
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
A metal is also oxidized. If a metal is powdered and floated in atmosphere, it is very dangerous just like a flammable gas.

Field Chemicals and Plants
Author DOBASHI, Ritsu (School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo)
TAMURA, Masamitsu (Center for Risk Management and Safety Sciences, Yokohama National University)