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Tray overflow during a transfer operation

13/12/2002
Accident

A ship was unloading its cargo into a tank located in a petroleum depot. The handling operations were being carried out normally for the transfer. Suddenly, a warning alarm signalled that the first tank was nearly full. As the operator[...]

Explosion followed by a fire in a chemical plant

28/11/2002
Accident

At a chemical plant, a tank containing a mix of toluene-2,6-diisocyanate (TDI) / tars with a high boiling point increased in pressure and exploded around 7:40 pm. The cloud ignited 5 min later; afterwards, the fire was fed by 20[...]

Flaming gas leak in a refinery

17/11/2002
Accident

At a refinery early in the evening (8:22 pm), a leak ignited on a stripping column of the gasoline hydrotreatment unit. This step was intended to eliminate a number of impurities (sulfurized, nitrogenated and oxygenated compounds, metals) before being routed[...]

Cracking of a silo storage cell

20/10/2002
Accident

The concrete wall of one of the vertical storage bins cracked throughout its length of 25 m in the silo of an agricultural cooperative built in 1963 during the first out of the three construction lots of the facility. About[...]

Rupture of a cell in a grain silo

20/09/2002
Accident

Around 11:50 am, a driver loading his lorry using the side drainage system on a silo storage cell noticed that pieces of concrete were falling into his trailer dumpster. He informed the warehouse attendant responsible for destocking and then quickly[...]

Fire in a final waste storage centre

10/09/2002
Accident

A fire broke out at a potash mine about 4:15 am within an underground storage site devoted to toxic industrial waste (50,000 tonnes/year), which had been operating since February 1999 in galleries specifically excavated for this purpose at a depth[...]

Deflagration of a reactor

04/09/2002
Accident

In a fine chemistry plant employing 70 staff, a 1,500-litre enamelled reactor underwent a pressure surge and exploded during the oxidation of 200 kg of dichloro-dicyano-hydroquinone (DDHQ) into dichloro-dicyano-quinone (DDQ) by means of nitric acid and oxygen in a solvent[...]

Leakage of diesel oil when unloading a tanker

22/08/2002
Accident

A leak of heating oil occurred during the unloading of a tanker into a storage capacity of 6000 m3, polluting a channel of the harbour in Brussels. Local residents alerted local authorities and media. Fire-fighters set up 4 booms despite[...]

Acidic waste water discharge

11/08/2002
Accident

Acid water stemming from the manufacturing of dyes and pigments was partially channelled to a neutralisation facility located 18 km from a chemical plant. Between 5th and 11th August, a succession of leaks was observed, especially over the first 2[...]

Explosion in a dynamite manufacturing plant

30/07/2002
Accident

An explosion occurred in a dynamite packaging shop at a plant specialised in the manufacturing of gelatinous explosives. In all, 90 kg of dynamite detonated. The only technician working in the shop at the time of the accident was killed.[...]