Scenario

01. Poor Value Perception
02. Poor Safety Awareness
03. Insufficient Safety Measure
04. Organizational Problems
05. Inflexible Management Structure
06. Insufficient Education/Training
07. Insufficient Analysis or Research
08. Insufficient Prior Research
09. Insufficient Study of Working Environment
10. Usage
11. Operation/Use
12. Usage Liquid Nitrogen
13. Bad Event
14. Chemical Phenomenon
15. Freezing
16. Bad Event
17. Chemical Phenomenon
18. Abnormal Reaction
19. Secondary Damage
20. External Damage
21. Explosion
22. Bodily Harm
23. Death
24. 2 person died
25. Bodily Harm
26. Injury

Explosion of benzene caused due to liquefied oxygen in surrounding air at a low temperature with liquid nitrogen
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
A liqud nitrogen may condense an ambient oxygen. The liquid oxygen may work as strong oxidizer at the low temperature.

Field Chemicals and Plants
Author WAKAKURA, Masahide (Kanagawa Industrial Technology Research Institute)
TAMURA, Masamitsu (Center for Risk Management and Safety Sciences, Yokohama National University)