Engulfment accident

A temporary worker was fatally injured after falling through a sugar hopper and becoming engulfed by sugar. The fatality occurred in a marine cargo warehouse operation, where bulk
granulated sugar from ships is transported to the warehouse for storage, bagging, and distribution. Sugar clumps often prevented the sugar from flowing freely through a hopper onto a conveyor
belt during bagging. Two or three times per shift, workers would manually break up the clumps. This fatal incident occurred when the temporary worker was breaking up sugar clumps with a pole/
shovel while standing on a hardened sugar bridge at the top of the hopper. The sugar bridge collapsed. As the worker fell to the bottom of the hopper, his legs went through the chute where
he was engulfed by sugar and suffocated.
SOURCE: OSHA

Fatal accident

Three employees were working on a leaking crude oil flow line that connected a production well to its tank battery. They dug a trench to access the leaking flow line and cut out a 6-ft. long section from the pipe using a cold cutter. Two of the employees attempted to thread the cut on the flow line with a manual pipe threading machine (threader) but the dies on the threader were dull. Therefore, the workers asked the office to have new dies for the machine delivered to the site. Instead of installing the new dies in the manual pipe threader that was used earlier, the dies were installed in an electric pipe threader. Two of the employees got in the trench with the electric pipe threader and started to thread the exposed pipe when flammable vapors were ignited by the electric pipe threader. As a result, a flash fire engulfed the trench in flames. The third employee discharged two fire extinguishers to extinguish the fire. The two employees that were in the trench were hospitalized with second and third-degree burns to their arms, neck and faces. One of these employees died at the hospital. The other burned employee was hospitalized and released at a later date.
SOURCE: OSHA

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Incident due to failure of ball check valve in sight glass

https://www.bsee.gov/sites/bsee.gov/files/safety-bulletin-007.pdf

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Vacuum incident

Condensate tank implosion due to vacuum

Acid reaction with iron sulphide cause H2S release

Acid reaction with iron sulphide cause H2S release

Steam hose failure burns worker

Steam hose failure burns worker

Instrument tubing failure incident

http://www.energysafetycanada.com/files/safety-alerts/sa11_10.pdf

Accident during leak test

https://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/accidentsearch.accident_detail?id=201363413

Courtesy: OSHA

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