Accidents / Incidents / Near misses

Hi Guys,

As we all know, safety is a day to day learning process, and is best learnt by sharing. We have been so good in this forum sharing Safety related information so far.

I thought it would be good for us to share the Accidents / Incidents / Near misses experienced in their related industry and will work on Investigation through the experience of experts in this forum. This way I think we will be able to get learn, understand and mitigate such an Accidents in our environment.

To start with I thought I would start with one of the Incident that I had experienced in my work experience in one of a chemical industry.

A hydrogenator reactor was filled with solvent (Ethanol) and catalyst (through a catalyst charging pot on top of the reactor) and pressurised with hydrogen upto a pressure of 30 barg. As the hydrogenation reaction (absortion of hydrogen through the solvent) is faster in the initial stages, it took 30 min to stabilise the hydrogen pressure in the reactor. The pressure in the reactor was monitored through the DCS. Suddenly the hydrogen leaked through the catalyst pot and was ignited (hydrogen fires are invisible). immediately the hydrogen was depressurised using nitrogen and the hydrogen fire was put off by the application of fire fighting systems.

This is just a brief note on the incident, If anyone is interested to proceed with this incident or come with their own incident from their industry they can.

Let us share, investigate, understand and mitigate.

Everyone is free to share their own perspective

Regards

Sri

thanks

You can sign up to Chemical Safety Board ([url]www.csb.gov[/url]) RSS Feeds for latest incident reports and videos (also on YouTube). Check also the EPA and OSHA news releases, also available in RSS format for constant update - as for facilities outside of the US, I would be happy to hear a good manner of keeping up with news there.

Hi Ivanilych,

Thank you for your references.

What we are trying to do here is make people come out with the accident / incident / near missed that they face in their industry and others to investigate and understand the problem to ensure it is not repeated in other places.

Anyhow thank you for your reference

Dear All,

While surfing net i found these usful article for the current running topic.

Rail Tank Car Collapse
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Possible Causes of Accident on a Project/ Process

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Thanks & Regards
Ankit

Hi All,

Hope some of you would have come across the Buncefield Incident. This did give a breakthrough for Explosion modeling and the differences in the present modelling and design of oil storage facilities.

For those who are not aware of, here is the link which gives the details of the incident investigation, recommendations raised etc . . .

[url]http://www.buncefieldinvestigation.gov.uk/index.htm[/url]

Regards

Dear All,

I'm already joint to this useful forum, and it's a good idea Sri2cool4u come over it. And it was not bad idea that the participated friends posted some releated links and thank for both of them. In my opinion, it would be better for us to share A / I / Near miss's that we faced in our industry with our own investigation and comments releted, for sure we cant forget to post pictures and/or illustration for the A/I/N. I think that's what Sri meant?.

Thanks.

You are absolutely right soleh, that is how thinks can be learnt the easier and knowledge can be shared. More over this could help us prevent the similar hazard situation in where we work day to day

Regards

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purge line remained on. This resulted in the argon
atmosphere being sustained within the vessel, in
addition to the removal of the purge plug which
increased the concentration of argon in the vessel
as one argon hose was still on and was now leaking
into the vessel directly. So the first welder
collapsed, the second entered to affect rescue, but
unfortunately both welders were overcome by lack
of oxygen and collapsed inside the vessel.

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[QUOTE=sri2cool4u;54069]Hi Guys,

As we all know, safety is a day to day learning process, and is best learnt by sharing. We have been so good in this forum sharing Safety related information so far.

I thought it would be good for us to share the Accidents / Incidents / Near misses experienced in their related industry and will work on Investigation through the experience of experts in this forum. This way I think we will be able to get learn, understand and mitigate such an Accidents in our environment.

To start with I thought I would start with one of the Incident that I had experienced in my work experience in one of a chemical industry.

A hydrogenator reactor was filled with solvent (Ethanol) and catalyst (through a catalyst charging pot on top of the reactor) and pressurised with hydrogen upto a pressure of 30 barg. As the hydrogenation reaction (absortion of hydrogen through the solvent) is faster in the initial stages, it took 30 min to stabilise the hydrogen pressure in the reactor. The pressure in the reactor was monitored through the DCS. Suddenly the hydrogen leaked through the catalyst pot and was ignited (hydrogen fires are invisible). immediately the hydrogen was depressurised using nitrogen and the hydrogen fire was put off by the application of fire fighting systems.

This is just a brief note on the incident, If anyone is interested to proceed with this incident or come with their own incident from their industry they can.

Let us share, investigate, understand and mitigate.

Everyone is free to share their own perspective

Regards

Sri[/QUOTE]

Absolutely

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