Scenario

01. Ignorance
02. Insufficient Knowledge
03. Insufficient Study
04. Poor Value Perception
05. Poor Safety Awareness
06. Inadequate Risk Recognition
07. Planning and Design
08. Poor Planning
09. Electric Device Secondhand Use Planning
10. Usage
11. Transport/Storage
12. Storage
13. Bad Event
14. Chemical Phenomenon
15. Flammable Gas Spouting
16. Secondary Damage
17. External Damage
18. Explosion/Fire
19. Loss to Organization
20. Economic Loss
21. Manetary Damage 1300 million yen
22. Damage to Society
23. Social Systems Failure

Explosion of flammable gas released from expanded polystyrene beads stored in a warehouse, and a fire of the warehouse
Case Details 100 Selected Cases

Knowledge Comment:
Expanded polystyrene beads dischrges flammable gas for rather long period from manufacture. They did not know the fact and storaged in the warehouse, then an explosion occurred. The reponsibility of the orderer is serious.

Field Chemicals and Plants
Author WADA, Yuji (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)
YOSHINAGA, Jun (Graduate School of New Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo)
TAMURA, Masamitsu (Center for Risk Management and Safety Sciences, Yokohama National University)