HIAD Nature Event - Ignition Source: Sparks from Rotating Machinery
A hydrogen explosion caused burns contaminated with radioactive dust to a member of the plant's maintenance crew. Three other workers escaped injury.The accident occurred in the basement of the…
The incident took place in a calcium powdered wire manufactory of "Chepetsk Mechanical Plant". Some amount of water find it's way in a container where the mixing of different powders took place. As a…
An explosion occurred around noon while conducting hot work (with a disc saw) on a 320-m fixed-roof tank at a pharmaceutical plant employing 240 personnel. The tank belongs to a waste treatment…
The boat was a 6.5 m semi-rigid electric-powered inflatable canoe, mainly used for greeting and directing pleasure boaters in harbour.It exploded without a flame shortly when an employee of the…
An isomerization unit of a refinery was affected. The release was caused by the mechanical failure of one of the two compressors working in parallel at a pressure of 20 bars, conveying the gas…
An empty 100-m reservoir of sulfuric acid (H2SO4) exploded at 9:15 am at a chemical site. Installed directly above its retention basin at a height of several metres, this reservoir was projected and…