Introduction Flammable gasses can be very dangerous mostly when it comes to highly volatile products. This is because they can evaporate at very low temperatures, may be room temperature and due to their low energy of activation to react. Highly volatile products are that dangerous because they cannot be seen, can evaporate any single moment, regardless of the size of leakage, they spread very fast among many other risks. This was the case at one of the manufacturing plants in Massachusetts, Arnel chemical plant. The plant was responsible for manufacturing printer paints On November 21, 2006, a night at about 2.45 AM a massive explosion occurred at the plant. After thorough research and investigation, it was found out by the US …show more content…
During the long unmonitored nights, the worst happened, one of the unsecured storage tanks leaked its components. They flowed on the ground, and due to the volatility, it evaporated and filled the whole building structure. From an unknown source, ignition happened, therefore, causing one of the worst accidents ever recorded in the American history. The blast. It was too strong that any after emergency measures could not have mattered.
Violated standards and how the incident could have been prevented The government has a set of standards that must be ensured for a company or an organization to be allowed to run. Just as an unroadworthy car is not authorized to be on the road for the risk that it exposes to people, then the same applies to manufacturing plants Automatic response programs in this plant were very poorly ensured. If the people who were setting the plant cared about the magnitude of the risk they were dealing with they were dealing with; they would have elected automatic shutdown apparatus on the mixing tanks. From the record, the plant did not have any automatic pressure mixing shutdown procedure nor temperature monitors that could be used to prevent situations from being worse. There was also very minimal and poor observation of the plant. It was reported that there were no any workers at the plant at the time the accident was occurring regardless of the fact that
That accident was at urban centre in 1986. consistent with the report two-handed down in 2000 by the global organisation X c. Committee on the consequences of Atomic Radiation, twenty eight employees died within the initial 3 months when the incident, nineteen died between 1987 and 2004 of varied causes not essentially related to radiation
The electrical failure caused the operator to not know that the valve was still open, which led to cooling water pouring out of the valve and caused the reactor core to overheat. As a result of all of these things, the instruments that the operators read to know what was happening provided confusing information. The operators could not tell how much coolant was in the reactor core because they didn't
The CMA received a follow up stating that everything had been corrected. Another letter was sent from the CMA asking for details in March of 1947. On March 25, 1947 the explosion occurred (Martin 1948). I believe that if someone actually went to inspect these corrections that were made the explosion or the 111 causalities could have been avoided.
On February 26, 1993 at 12:18 pm in New York City, the first call was received at the Central Office from a street alarm box at the corner of West and Liberty Streets. The call was reporting a possible transformer vault (or manhole) explosion on West Street near the World Trade Center. As manhole explosions are common in wet whether, there was no hint of a major catastrophe until the phones never ceased to ring after aid had arrived to the site. Numerous phone calls continued, now reporting smoke in the towers of the Trade Center as far up as the 33rd floor within the first three minutes of the explosion (http://members.aol.com/fd347/wtc.htm). The ceiling then collapsed in the train station, which
April 19, 1995, 9:02 a.m: a bomb was set off beneath the Alfred P. Murrah Building. The bomb damaged the structural support beams and the Northern support columns. Half of the building collapsed. 168 people died (Cook 5). Eric McKisick, a district manager, recalls the incident, ¨I made an assumption that, hey, everybody is out, everybody is good, and I left at that point. It wasn't ´till much later that I saw the devastation and understood they didn't respond because they couldn't.” Not only were there a large number of casualties, 300 people were also injured, some of whom were physically impaired for the rest of their life. A child who was in the building at the time of the explosion states, “I have no recollection of that day, but I’m reminded everyday about it because of my breathing problems (Brandes, Heide, Schapiro).”
The second accident at the "Timken Steel Faircrest plant" company which a is an employee fall down more than 40 feet which led to several broken bones because of just a small mistake. The problem is when he made a maintenance on a crane he wasn't ware Certified safety harness which it could safe his live from the risk. I used to do a maintenance on more than one cran and my company doesn't allow me to go without waring a Certified safety harness because they have to keep all the employees a way from all the risk and even if they didn't told me to ware it, I will not go up to the cran without it, do the fact that no one knows what will happen and even if I am good at this job, I have to work safely. I agree that this company should teach all
At 9:03 a.m. a massive bomb resting inside a rented Ryder truck destroyed half of the nine story federal building in downtown Oklahoma City. It also claimed the lives of 169 men, women, and children, while injuring hundreds
What’s important to examine is that before the Triangle Factory Fire is that that casualties from unsafe conditions were reported and expressed as a concern before. Where was the outrage that pushed for safer working conditions? The answer to that is that there were many times that people were upset with such conditions.
On April 19,1995 at 9:02 a.m, an explosion took place on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma city. The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was a federal complex designed and constructed to hold sixteen federal agencies, various centers and offices; consisting of the United States Secret Service, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, Social Security Administration, General Services Administration, Veterans Administration, and Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, Labor, and Transportation, Defense Audit Agency and Investigative Services, U.S. Marine Corps and Army Recruiting, Customs office, General Accounting Office 's, Credit Union, Raymond’s Place Snack Bar, Conference room, and America 's Kids Day Care Center. Altogether the federal building employed an estimated five hundred and fifty personal. The explosion nearly disintegrated one of the third of the federal building and created havoc around a 16 block radius, an estimated $652 million worth of damages altogether. The explosion took the lives of one hundred and sixty eight individuals, 19 of which were children and mounting non-fatal injuries of over eight hundred individuals. These lives were taken away by the worst domestic terrorist attack on the United States soil and the first to be conducted at the center of the
Many people were still coming to work and children were coming to the daycare center. When a 9:02 am an explosion rang out across Oklahoma City. The explosion ripped through the entire north wall of the building. More than three hundred buildings were damaged in total. All ten floors were destroyed and after the rubble had settled and the dust had cleared a darkness fell, as it was declared a hundred sixty-eight were dead, which included nineteen young children. More than six hundred eighty-four were wounded and many were left wondering why. This was the worst domestic terrorism on U.S. soil until September 11th,
Sunder (lead investigator) said at a news conference at the institute’s headquarters. “It did not collapse from explosives or fuel oil fires”.
American Airlines Flight 77 circled over Washington, D.C., and soon slammed right into the Pentagon military headquarters around 9:45 a.m. Due to the immense jet fuel, most of the building collapsed. “All told, 125 military personnel and civilians were killed in the Pentagon, along with all 64 people aboard the airliner.” As this devastating site was being broadcasted all over America, the horror in New York took place. The south tower of the World Trade Center immediately collapsed into smoke. Due to the burning jet fuel, the structure of the skyscraper couldn’t withstand the heat. Less than a half hour later, the other tower of the World Trade Center collapsed. There was close to
The greatest lesson learned from this tragedy was the need for planned fire drills and accessible fire escapes. If the employers would have made it mandatory that all employees become familiar with the buildings layout, practice fire drills and know their closest fire escape, it would have aided the employees in the hour of despair. The biggest cause for death in this fire was a result of poor pre-fire planning. The building may be fire proof, but the people and contents inside are not.
* Normally, in a situation where the reactor becomes unstable two fail safe measures were in place.
Since The First world War up to now, toxic gases died thousands of people. How many people have been suffering from toxic gases? How many people have permanent diseases because of toxic gases? Toxic gases have been using as chemical weapons to attack people. Chemical weapons had been using in The First World War and they had been using in Iraq against Iran and Kurdistan. Also, chemical weapons have been using in Syria. Chemical weapons killed and injured thousands of people. Therefore, chemical weapons can destroy our life, cause many permanent diseases and attack our world.