ArticlesUNLOADING HAZMAT to the wrong tank (CL2 Incident)
Many safety and process safety professional think incidents like this are "rare". They would be wrong, unless of course their definition of "rare" is a bit looser than mine! I do not have official numbers of the frequency of this type of incident but I am trying to obtain them and will certainly pass them along when, and if, I ever get them. But using my Incident Alerts from the past 14 years I have counted 78 such incidents that resulted in consequences that it made the news or triggered an agency inspection/investigation. Who knows how many occur with consequences so insignificant that they never make the news or any official reporting mechanism. But this 2012 incident is a PERFECT example of how these incidents occur and how their consequences can be lethal (however this incident only required the hospitalization of the drive for several days)... |
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