Reactive Hazards: Dangers of Uncontrolled Chemical Reactions

 

The Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released a new safety video.  The presentation features computerized simulations and descriptions of four major accidents investigated by CSB, as well as commentary by two chemical-process safety experts.

"Reactive Hazards: Dangers of Uncontrolled Chemical Reactions" was released this month, simultaneously with CSB's final report on an accident that killed 1 worker and injured 14 others in North Carolina on January 31, 2007.  The video features a computer animation of the tragedy narrated by Lead Investigator Jim Lay. Other accidents discussed in the video are:

  • MFG in Dalton, Georgia,
  • BP Amoco in Augusta, Georgia, and
  • First Chemical Supply of Pascagoula, Mississippi.

The video begins with news footage of the Bhopal reactive chemical accident of 1984, which killed thousands. 

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