Scenario

01. Ignorance
02. Insufficient Knowledge
03. Insufficient Study
04. Insufficient Analysis or Research
05. Insufficient Practice
06. Lack of Imagination
07. Organizational Problems
08. Inflexible Management Structure
09. Insufficient Information/Communication
10. Non-Regular Action
11. Change
12. Change Procedure
13. Planning and Design
14. Poor Planning
15. Poor Design
16. Bad Event
17. Chemical Phenomenon
18. Abnormal Reaction
19. Bad Event
20. Thermo-Fluid Event
21. Reverse Flow
22. Secondary Damage
23. External Damage
24. Explosion
25. Bodily Harm
26. Injury
27. 2 person injured

Explosion of hydrogen during cleaning a water scrubber at a semiconductor plant
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
Let the person who did not know the reaction danger make a plan the chemical cleaning, then the accident occurred. Never think so easy !

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)