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Chemical Safety Board Videos

Caribbean Petroleum Refining Tank Explosion and Fire, Bayamón, PR (10/23/2009)
  • One old level measurement system
  • No additional systems in case of failure
  • Usually cable breakages
Video Incident Report Exercise
Formosa Plastics Vinyl Chloride Explosion, Illiopolis, IL (04/23/2004)
  • Operator’s ignorance
Video Exercise
Formosa Plastics Propylene Explosion, Point Comfort, TX (10/06/2005)
  • In case of an error, the operators could not stop the flow properly (only manual valves)
Video Incident Report Exercise
Marcus Oil and Chemical Tank Explosion, Houston, TX (12/03/2004)
  • High pressure. No relief system
Video Incident Report Exercise
Acetylene Service Company Gas Explosion, Perth Amboy, NJ (01/25/2005)
  • Wrong direction of the flow. Wrong design of the valves.
Video Incident Report Exercise