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Equipment Identification - Incidents

Last updated February 19, 2021 | Element: Incidents

  1. Toxic gas cloud affecting nearby community due to a mixed connection at MGPI processing facility, Kansas.  

    https://www.csb.gov/mgpi-processing-inc-toxic-chemical-release-/ 

     
  2. VCM vapor cloud ignited and exploded when the operator opened the bottom valve of D310 (in line at 70psig) instead of opening bottom valve of D306 for cleaning operation at Formosa Plastics. 

     https://www.csb.gov/formosa-plastics-vinyl-chloride-explosion/ 

     
  3. Multiple Incidents of chlorine toxic cloud formations due to improper tagging and materials mixing – CCPS Process Safety Beacon February 2017.   

    https://www.aiche.org/ccps/resources/process-safety-beacon/archives/2017/february/english