Chemical Safety Board investigation reports

US Chemical Safety Board. Investigation report - chlorine release - DPC enterprises, LP, Festus, Missouri, Report No. 2002-04-I-MO, May 2003. 

US Chemical Safety Board. Investigation report E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Co., Inc. -Belle, West Virginia - phosgene release January 23,2010-Report No. 2010-6-I-WV. 

FIGURE 5.3.3.1 Imperial Sugar Manufacturing Facility, (from U.S. Chemical Safety Board Investigation Report) (a) before explosion, (b) after explosion. These images were taken from different angles. The sUos are circled in image (a). 

U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board. Investigation Report, Tosco Avon Refinery Eire Incident, 99-014-1-CA. 

Although not stressed by the regulations, the objective of the incident investigation should be the development and implementation of recommendations to ensure the incident is not repeated. This objective should apply not only to the process involved, but also to all similar situations having the same potential. In major incidents, the Chemical Safety Board s investigation of reports serves as a vehicle to communicate to a much broader audience than the organizations that had the incident. 

Source Investigation Report Refinery Fire Incident. Tosco Avon Refinery, U.S. Chemical Safety Board, 2001... 

The principal role of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board is investigating accidents to identify the conditions and circumstances that led to the events. It also investigates hazardous conditions that could lead to accidents. The agency uses root cause analysis and other methods to identify causes to prevent events. It makes recommendations to government agencies, companies, trade associations, labor unions, and other groups. It publishes reports and offers DVDs about cases it investigates. 

The Chemical Safety Board (CSB) investigation report identified seven significant facility and operational factors that had contributed to the incident. One of those was siting support trailers for workers too close to the highly hazardous process unit. All fatalities occurred in and around the trailers. 

This incident was fully investigated and reported by the CSB. In May 2014, a 160-page report was released. The report Chemical Safety and Hazard Board Investigation Report Catastrophic Rupture of Heat Exchanger (Seven Fatalities) - Tesoro Anacortes Refmeiy- Report 2010-08-I-WA, May 2014, is available on the CSB website. The CSB delivered an extensive treatment of the metallurgical aspects of this failure [25]. The CSB produced an excellent supporting animated video entitled Tesoro... 

U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board Investigation Report - Report No. 2004-10-1-lL. Vinyl chloride monomer explosion (5 dead, 3 injured and community evacuated). Formosa Plastics Corp, llhopolis, IL March 2007. 

This was a tragic incident. The politics and passion suirounding this event blur the presentation of facts. Fnrthermoie, I am unsure we have the correct shading of all of the facts in some of the reports. There is at least two different views the immediate primary canse (sabotage or inadeqnate maintenance). It is a shame that there is not an independent board within Veneznela that could bring all of the facts forward like a US Chemical Safety Board or the British HSL. Feel free to check any of the references or other reports to draw yonr own conclusions. To me, the reconunendations of the COENER investigation seem to be comprehensive and credible. 

This fourth edition was developed after my retirement from industry and into the part-time consultant business. Today there are so many additional resources. The introductory chapter has been rejuvenated and reinforced with today s statistics. There are four new chapters. I was able to get help from the Mary Kay O Cormor Process Safety Center (College Station, Texas), supporters of the Lake Area Industries/ McNeese University Engineering (Lake Charles, Louisiana) Partnership, the US Chemical Safety Board case studies, and the Btmcefield Investigation reports. There was also some excellent additions of material from the Beacon - a monthly feature of the Center for Chemical Process Safety. 

U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigations Board, Investigation report Chemical manufacturing incident. Report no. 1998-06-I-NJ, 2000. 

A recent incident that occurred during a post-turnaround startup at a refining facility was investigated by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) and the company involved. Both reports recommendations imply that thorough prestartup safety review implementation could have mitigated or completely avoided the incident. 

Chemical Safety Board, CSB Investigation Report T2 Laboratories, Inc., Runaway Reaction, http //www.csb.g0v/assets/l/19/T2 Final Copy 9 17 09.pdf, (accessed Mar 2015). 

In 2008 a series of dust explosions and fires in a sugar refinery killed 14 workers and injured another 36 workers, some of whom had permanent, life-altering conditions. The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) investigated the explosion and reported its findings and recommendations for preventing these incidents in the future. 

After a serious industrial plant accident or incident in the United States, a thorough investigation is conducted by an independent government agency, the Chemical Safety Board (CSB), to determine the root cause of the incident, assess responsibility, and suggest safety improvements. The subsequent accident report is made available on an Internet site www.chemsafety.gov. 

The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) event occurred in April 2010 in the GoM. At the time of writing some of the investigation reports (such as that from the Chemical Safety Board) had not been published, so it is Important not to draw too many conclusions until those reports and their associated findings are made available. However, it is already clear that this event will have an impact on the offshore oil and gas industry as large as that of Piper Alpha. 

The BP Texas City Disaster and Worker Safety, Hearing before the House Committee on Education and Labor, noth Cong., 1st Sess. (2007) (Testimony of Carolyn W. Merritt, U.S. Chemical Safety Board) (quote) British Petroleum Corporation, Fatal Accident Investigation Report Isomerization Unit Explosion Interim Report, Texas City, Texas 7, 15, 24 (May 12, 2005). 

The Chemical Incidents Report Center (CIRC) is an incident database initiated by the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board. An online search of this database (www.chemsafety.gov/circ), as well as a more general web search, may be a good starting point for a literature survey. 

The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) has conducted detailed investigations into a few chemical reactivity incidents. Case studies and full investigation reports are available from the CSB (Washington, DC) or its website (www.chemsafety.gov). Extracts from three CSB publications (1998,2002a, 2002c) are given here. 

Investigation Report, Chemical Manufacturing Incident (9 Injured), Morton International, Inc., Paterson, NJ, April 8, 1998 (2000). Washington, DC U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, Report No. 1998-06-I-NJ. 

William R. Rhyne received a B.S. in nuclear engineering from the University of Tennessee and M.S. and D.Sc. degrees in nuclear engineering from the University of Virginia. Dr. Rhyne is currently an independent consultant and earlier cofounded H R Technical Associates, Inc., where he remains a member of the board of directors. He has extensive experience in risk and safety analyses associated with nuclear and chemical processes and with the transport of hazardous nuclear materials and chemicals. From 1984 to 1987, he was the project manager and principal investigator for a probabilistic accident analysis of transporting obsolete chemical munitions. Dr. Rhyne has authored or coauthored numerous publications and reports in nuclear and chemical safety and risk analysis areas and is author of the book Hazardous Materials Transportation Risk Analysis Quantitative Approaches for Truck and Train. He is a former member of the NRC Transportation Research Board Hazardous Materials Committee, the Society for Risk Assessment, the American Nuclear... 

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