Scenario

01. Poor Value Perception
02. Poor Safety Awareness
03. Inadequate Risk Recognition
04. Insufficient Analysis or Research
05. Insufficient Prior Research
06. Corrosion/Flow
07. Ignorance
08. Insufficient Knowledge
09. Insufficient Study
10. Oxidation Reaction
11. Planning and Design
12. Poor Planning
13. Poor Operation Planning
14. Non-Regular Action
15. Change
16. Flow Rate Change
17. Bad Event
18. Thermo-Fluid Event
19. Temperature Rising
20. Failure
21. Abrasion
22. Corrosion
23. Secondary Damage
24. External Damage
25. Fire
26. Loss to Organization
27. Economic Loss
28. Manetary Damage 160 million yen

Leakage and fire caused due to an abnormal reaction from contamination of a heat medium to raw materials in a heat exchanger type reactor having a corroded part at an acrolein manufacturing plant
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
High temperature and corrosive, moreover absolutely inhibited contamination with opposite side material in the heat exchanger ! Careful judgment and sufficient study are required. Please more carefully !

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)