Scenario

01. Ignorance
02. Insufficient Knowledge
03. Insufficient Study
04. Poor Value Perception
05. Poor Safety Awareness
06. Inadequate Risk Recognition
07. Organizational Problems
08. Poor Management
09. Poor Operation Management
10. Planning and Design
11. Poor Planning
12. Poor Heating Planning
13. Non-Regular Action
14. Change
15. Change of Heating Method
16. Bad Event
17. Chemical Phenomenon
18. Abnormal Reaction
19. Secondary Damage
20. External Damage
21. Explosion
22. Bodily Harm
23. Death
24. Loss to Organization
25. Economic Loss
26. Manetary Damage 50 million yen

Explosion in a storage tank caused due to decomposition of a polymerization catalyst
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
If you heat the self decompositive substance by the hot medium higher than the decomposition temperature, do you think what will be happened? Moreover in the dead-end piping !

Field Chemicals and Plants
Author ITAGAKI, Haruhiko (Japan National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health)
TAMURA, Masamitsu (Center for Risk Management and Safety Sciences, Yokohama National University)