At a chemical plant, a large cloud of phosphorus trichloride (PCl3) and hydrogen chloride was released during a degassing test conducted on a PCl3 iso-container damaged during an incident that same morning (ARIA 26003). The plant's internal emergency plan was[...]
In a chemical plant, 2 explosions occurred in a glyoxylic acid production line followed by a fire. The building in question housed a production unit for intermediate chemicals used in manufacturing antibiotics and crop protection products. The fire-fighters brought the[...]
A spill of 328 metric tons of heavy fuel oil happened in an Oil Terminal during the discharge of the product from a ship vessel to a storage tank. At 10.30 p.m. the discharge to storage tank No 375 was[...]
An explosion followed by fire occurred at 3.20 am in a plant's lubricant additive manufacturing facility located in a harbour-based industrial zone. The unit, experiencing an operational shutdown for the last 3 days, appeared to be empty of all additives at[...]
At a chemical site producing melamine, an accidental explosion occurred during restart of an industrial furnace powered by both natural gas and the residual gas from other units. The filters clogged by residual gas were regularly cleaned, which necessitated installation[...]
A violent explosion, felt more than 10 km away, occurred in a dynamite boxing workshop at an explosives plant. This shop was transforming bulk gelatinous explosives into packaged cartridges. The dynamite manufactured at the time of the accident contained 1/3[...]
At a chemical facility, a recently replaced graphite safety disc (nominal diam.: 250) calibrated at 3 bar broke on a 12-m³ reactor used to solubilize a Resol resin. This intermediate resinous agent, included in production activities for the hide tanning[...]
On Sunday, 20 m³ of a chelated iron-EDDHAS complex polluted the BRENNE River following an operational incident in one of the workshops at a chemical plant manufacturing basic organic products. A closed-loop iron complex filtration phase started up at 5 am[...]
In a dockside warehouse of oil and petroleum products, a reservoir containing 1,600 m³ of ortho-cresol broke and a vapour cloud rose in the direction of the nearby Rotterdam metropolitan area. The reservoir collapsed on one of its sides and[...]
Inside a chemical plant, 2 kg of chlorine were released into the atmosphere from a liquid trap that initially contained 98% sulphuric acid. The facility's internal emergency plan was activated. Notified by the operator, the railway station, located 200 m away,[...]
