Scenario

01. Poor Value Perception
02. Poor Safety Awareness
03. Inadequate Risk Recognition
04. Ignorance
05. Insufficient Knowledge
06. No Understanding of Crude oil Property
07. Planning and Design
08. Poor Planning
09. Insufficient Planning of Repair
10. Usage
11. Maintenance/Repair
12. Cutting by Fire
13. Bad Event
14. Chemical Phenomenon
15. Evaporation
16. Secondary Damage
17. External Damage
18. Explosion
19. Bodily Harm
20. Death
21. 4 person died
22. Bodily Harm
23. Injury

Fire and explosion during repair of a fuel service tank at a thermal power station
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
It is difficult to do purge perfectly of the heavy residual oil piping. Hot work should be executed caefully.

Field Chemicals and Plants
Author KOSEKI, Hirosi (National Research Institute of Fire and Disaster)
TAMURA, Masamitsu (Center for Risk Management and Safety Sciences, Yokohama National University)