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According to Joseph, Kaszniak and Long (2005, p. 544), prior to the disaster, the company had been facing a financial crisis for many years because the sale of pesticides had been fallen. Mannan (2012, p. 2649) points out that due to the budget cuts, many plant operators received insufficient training on operations and safety awareness. As shown in figure 1, there was a decrease in the length of training programmes for plant operators from 18 months in 1975 to only one month in December 1984, which is mentioned by Chouhan (2005, p. 207). Therefore, Chouhan (2005, p. 207) indicates that without the knowledge of runaway reactions occurring in the storage tank when the accident happened, many workers could not immediately take any emergency action to lessen the risk of the MIC escape from

Another reason fire got out of control was that the hose in the factory was not plugged into the standpipe why?The owners of the factory didn’t want the water bill to skyrocket. In paragraph 2 it states “Nothing!No water came. The hose had not been connected to the standpipe. Seconds later the fire leapt out of control. ”The explains how the fire leapt out of control.

At 0745hours, Specialist Bausbaugh notified Operations Manager Christopher Lynn of the incident. At 0746hours, Specialist Madera notified Facility Director Michael Critchosin. At

Ladder 1 and 5, Rescue 1, and Car 3 by 6:18pm. At this time Incident Commander number one request dispatch to strike a second alarm due to the size of the building and with the second alarm Engines 2, 16, aerial scope 2, and car 2 are all dispatched to the scene. At 6:20pm Incident Commander number one request building information from dispatch but no building plans were ever found creating confusion on how the interior of the building was designed. At 6:26pm Incident Commander one enters the building through a door from the first floor and goes up the stairway into the second floor where the fire originated as well as Engine 13 and Ladder 1 who report that elevator shafts were engulfed into fire. Incident commander number one reports there was possibly two homeless people still in the building and at 6:31pm Incident commander number two comes on scene in Car 2. Three crews from Engine 1, Ladder 1, and Rescue 1 were inside the building reporting the spread of fire and all work their way up the stairway to the roof to cleared a skylight and had it completely vented and started to descend down the stairs while each crew performed search-and-rescue sweeps of each floor for the homeless victims and fire extension checks. They also have 2 ½ inch hose line and 1 ¾ inch hose line on the second and third floor coming up the stairway for an offensive

There are multiple important people and organizations involved with this gasoline pipeline explosion. The most important would be the Olympic Pipeline Company itself. The Olympic Pipeline Company is operated by BP Pipelines. BP Pipelines is the second largest pipeline company in the United States. There were a few important employees involved in this case that worked for Olympic. There were the inspectors of the gasoline pipeline, which were to inspect the pipeline’s mechanics. Also, there were the employees who were responsible for installing a pressure relief system that did not work. In addition, the computer system administrator was very important since this person was working on the software development of the pipeline’s control system during

Other contributing factors included an inadequate pre-startup safety review, inadequate operator training on the newly installed control system, unevaluated temporary changes, malfunctioning or missing equipment, misaligned valves, and bypassed critical safety devices; and insufficient technical expertise available in the control room during the

Two System Failures Responsible for Contributing to the Sentinel Event: Insufficient Drug Information and Inconsistent Independent Double-Check System

CNN)A gas leak at a Motel 6 in Bremerton, Washington, caused an explosion so severe it brought down a section of the building and flung firefighters 20 feet away.

General Moon had ordered the Special Operations Groups around post to open up all of the underground storage facilities, he noted that SFC Harris from 19th Special Forces Group had let the cat out of the bag and General Portson was not a happy camper. General Portson wanted the helicopters out ASAP, checked out and verified that they still ran. There was still plenty of fuel for them over at Pope AFB, granted it would run out sooner or later, but for now they were set. He wanted the birds up and flying NLT 1500 that day. General Moon kindly pointed out to General Portson that he didn’t come under his command. General Portson kindly pointed out that he still outranked his ass and until someone else came long more senior to him he had

OA Mikayla was sitting at the desk at 2:06 PM when summer resident, Tanielle Gardner came to the front desk saying she set off her personal fire alarm by spraying air freshener. PSO Kellerhals and PSO Vandenberg arrived on scene around 2:05 and they checked her room for any other causes and proceeded to turn off the alarm.

involved persons, puts the fault primarily on the decisions made by BP and its partners on the deepwater rig.

The government makes replica’s of the T20 Tank. The only thing about the tank is, is that it cannot start up and that the tanks are life size replica’s. A replica means that it looks like the object, such as the T20 Tank but it is not functional.

BP knew in advance, the life span of the pipes. These pipes were installed in 1977 and had a twenty five year expiration (Jennings, 2009). BP decided not to replace the pipes. The explosion occured in 2006 because the corrosion in the pipes had exceeded their expiration date by five years.

In an earlier report, Cal/OSHA had previously cited the Torrance refinery with 25 safety violations in November 2014 (Kenealy, 2015). Following the explosion, workers at the refinery voiced their concerns over these past and present violations and even conducted a strike involving 7,000 employees across 15 refineries. The strike was intended to bring awareness to the occupational hazards created by ExxonMobil’s failed safety protocols and procedures.

The Deepwater Horizon was one of the largest offshore oil-drilling rigs in the world. During its more than nine years of service, all of which were under lease to the British Petroleum Company, numerous inspections were conducted by the federal Minerals Management Service (MMS). The exact number of inspection cannot be verified due to lack of proper recordkeeping and supporting documentation. The number of inspections has varied between eighty-three and eighty-eight, with as many as forty-eight being conducted since January, 2005. (Kunzelman & Burke, 2010). One of the safety violations documented during an inspection was on the blowout valve that failed causing the fireball that ignited the drilling platform. The question arises as to