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September 15, 2024
AI IN PSM - A DOUBLE EDGED SWORD ARTICLE
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Interesting article Ai in PSM- adouble edged sword for PSM https://www.leancompliance.ca/post/ai-in-psm-a-double-edged-sword-for-process-sa...
September 12, 2024
H2S is both flammable and toxic!
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At 6:45 p.m. on October 28, 2021, an employee was circulating a tank of hydrogen sulfide when a burner box, which was 15 feet away, was tur...
September 8, 2024
Employee killed, another injured in storage tank explosion
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"On or about January 28, 1993, Employee #1, a contract welder, was repairing and replacing flanges on storage tanks in order to insta...
September 3, 2024
Employee Sustains Kidney Rupture And Multiple Fractures when H2S released from a safety valve
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"At 10:30 a.m. on September 30, 2019, an employee was performing maintenance on a storage tank battery for oil and gas operations sup...
August 27, 2024
Employee is killed when overexposed to H2S during confined space entry
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"At 12:30 p.m. on June 7, 2021, an employee entered a sewer manhole to estimate the amount of materials needed to perform a manhole r...
August 22, 2024
Four Employees Are Chemically Poisoned with Epichlorohydrin
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On May 17, 2010 Employee #1, Employee #2, Employee #3 and Employee #4, were in the pipe rack planning to install a flanged spool piece on t...
August 18, 2024
Hydrotest fatility
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"At 1:00 p.m. on September 27, 1993, a hydrostatic test crew operator and two helpers began testing 19 sections of 7 inch P-110 casing...
August 13, 2024
CO2 pipeline incident due to landslide
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"On February 22, 2020, a carbon dioxide (CO2) pipeline ruptured in proximity to the community of Satartia, Mississippi. The rupture fol...
August 8, 2024
Two employees killed when natural gas pipeline explodes
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At approximately 3:30 p.m. on June 14, 2012, Employee #1 was performing hydro testing of two recently constructed and installed crude oil...
August 4, 2024
PRESSURE TESTING FATALITY
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At approximately 3:30 p.m. on June 14, 2012, Employee #1 was performing hydro testing of two recently constructed and installed crude oil...
July 30, 2024
Pipefitt er Struck by Pressurized Pipe and Killed
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On March 6, 2018, a 49-year-old pipefitter was hit in the chest by a pressurized 12-inch diameter polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipe during a hy...
July 25, 2024
Employees Chemically Burned by Leaking Dimethyl Sulfate Pipe (leak caused by thermal expansion of pipeline)
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At 11:30 a.m. on June 20, 2007, Employees #1, #2, #3, and #4, who worked for Scaffolding Company, and Employees #5, and #6, who worked for ...
July 21, 2024
FIRE AND EXPLOSION HAZARDS WITH THERMAL FLUID SYSTEMS
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"Incidents relating to thermal fluid systems are unfortunately more common than we might realise, and can be extremely serious. The fir...
July 16, 2024
EXPANSION BELLOW INCIDENT
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"In this study, the explosion failure of a bellows expansion joint made of Type 304 stainless steel (UNS S30400) in a pipeline conduct...
July 12, 2024
Ammonia can cause fires and explosions
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Employees #1 and #2 were engaged in a turnaround operation at a fertilizer manufacturing plant. They were standing on a work platform at ...
July 7, 2024
COMMON CHEMICALS CAN CAUSE UNCOMMON REACTIONS
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An employee was cleaning the floors in a restaurant and mixed together sanitizer and heavy duty floor cleaner. The sanitizer contained chlo...
July 3, 2024
A change in receiving storage tanks kills one
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A road tanker loaded with ammonia hydroxide was being unloaded into a polyethylene storage tank at the site of a chemical distributor. Th...
June 27, 2024
INADEQUATE REPAIR OF AN AMMONIA VESSEL KILLS 3
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The 109D-C was one of three identical vessels at the facility that removed moisture and carbon monoxide from a synthesis gas used in the m...
June 23, 2024
INCIDENT DUE TO THERMAL EXPANSION OF AMMONIA
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At approximately 7:10 a.m. on June 11, 2008, Operators at the C2 unit (Plant 2) in C building were injecting 60-psi steam at a temperature ...
June 19, 2024
WORKING ON THE WRONG LINE INCIDENT
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How do you address human factors of lookalikes when handing over lines/ equipment for maintenance? At approximately 9:00 a.m. on March 15, ...
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