Scenario

01. Unknown Cause
02. Occurrence of Abnormal Phenomenon
03. Poor Value Perception
04. Poor Safety Awareness
05. Inadequate Risk Recognition
06. Carelessness
07. Insufficient Precaution
08. Carelessness of Operator
09. Planning and Design
10. Poor Planning
11. No Hypothesis of the Worst Case
12. Non-Regular Operation
13. Emergency Operation
14. Emergency Shutdown
15. Bad Event
16. Thermo-Fluid Event
17. Exfoliation/Scatter
18. Secondary Damage
19. External Damage
20. Fire

Turf grass fire caused due to scatter from a flare stack
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
May-be, this accident was the first accident in Japan which occurred from an accumulation of suit inside a flare stack. Warning to the Manager of the factory.

Field Chemicals and Plants
Author KOBAYASHI, Mitsuo (Office K)
TAMURA, Masamitsu (Center for Risk Management and Safety Sciences, Yokohama National University)