Scenario

01. Poor Value Perception
02. Poor Safety Awareness
03. Inadequate Risk Recognition
04. Insufficient Analysis or Research
05. Insufficient Practice
06. No Imagination
07. Ignorance
08. Insufficient Knowledge
09. Insuficient Study and Experience
10. Planning and Design
11. Poor Planning
12. Poor Planning of Repair
13. Usage
14. Maintenance/Repair
15. Cleaning
16. Secondary Damage
17. External Damage
18. Explosion
19. Bodily Harm
20. Injury
21. 1 person injured

Explosion of benzene used as washing oil during cleaning a fuel oil tank
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
Benzene was used at a work inside a tank, and the liquid benzene remained at the bottom of the tank ! Moreover benzene is a typical carcinogen.

Field Chemicals and Plants
Author WADA, Yuji (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)
TAMURA, Masamitsu (Center for Risk Management and Safety Sciences, Yokohama National University)