Arkema Inc. Chemical Plant Fire, Crosby, TX (8/29/2017)
- Manufactures organic peroxides
- Hurricane Harvey Flooding disabled the refrigeration
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Exercise
Donaldson Enterprises Inc. Fatal Firework Disassembly and Explosion, Waipahu, HI (4/8/2013)
- Change in procedures to disassemble and dispose of fireworks. An explosion resulted from not analyzing change with regard to PPA
- No analysis of the hazards
- Friction of the chairs
- Hazard of the black powder
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Incident Report
Exercise
NDK Crystal Inc. Explosion with Offsite Fatality, Belvidere, IL (10/7/2009)
- Recommended inspections not performed
- Vessels corrosion
- High pressures and temperatures and vessels did not meet code
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Incident Report
Exercise
Oil Site Safety, Weleetka, OK (4/14/2010)
- Never really illustrated what happened. Suggests that an ignition source was provided by two high school students playing in a tank half filled with crude oil that exploded
- Flammable vapor
- Proximity of the location
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Incident Report
Exercise
Silver Eagle Refinery Flash Fire and Explosion and Catastrophic Pipe Explosion, Woods Cross, UT (1/12/2009)
- Pipe corrosion
- The component that failed had no record of ever being inspected for corrosion as it thinned over the years
- Bad inspection strategies
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Incident Report
Exercise
Caribbean Petroleum Refining Tank & Explosion, San Juan, PR (10/23/2009)
- Gasoline overflowed in storage tanks
- Malfunction of tank level measurement
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Incident Report
Exercise
Buncefield Terminal, United Kingdom (12/11/2005)
- Gasoline overflow
- Liquid level measurement failed
Exercise
Chevron Refinery Fire, Bayamón, PR (10/23/2009)
- The refinery used obsolete equipment rather than the safest modern designs
- Analysis of the effectiveness of safeguards inteded to control hazards was missing
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Incident Report
Exercise