Safety Info Posts

Following the release of the Fernie Incident Investigation Report Technical Safety BC developed new ammonia refrigeration industry maintenance guidelines to support facility owners and refrigeration professionals with implementing the report recommendations. The purpose of these guidelines is to provide ammonia refrigeration plant owners and operators with guidance and basic information about the development, documentation, and…...

On July 13, 1973, at a fertilizer plant, one of four 50-ton (metric) pressure-storage tanks (horizontal bullet type) failed. The failure resulted from brittle fracture of a dished end. No specific source of cracking, or a “triggering incident” was identified. An estimated 30 ton of anhydrous ammonia was released, plus another 8 ton from a…...

I am trying to get the details behind this one.  I do know it was a vertical vessel inside an engine room.  it failed, catastrophically, and did considerable damage inside the engine room as well as off-site.  No off-site injuries or damage (other than the grass in the median of the road where it came…...

At 2:30 p.m. on September 13, 2010, Employee #1, Employee #2, and Employee #3 were tasked with the dismantling of a scaffold level within a phosgene containment dome. During their dismantling work, at approximately 80 feet above the ground, alarms specific to phosgene gas were triggered. The process within this Dome was the manufacturing and…...

Under the final RMP Reconsideration rule, members of the public can continue to obtain access to RMPs through three different means: Read-only access to the full version of facility RMPs at reading rooms by appearing in person at a Federal reading room; Read-only RMP access directly from the local emergency planning committee in the location…...

On November 20, 2019, EPA finalized changes to the Risk Management Program (RMP) Reconsideration final rule to better address potential security risks, regulatory consistency and reasonable consideration of costs. The changes are intended to promote better emergency planning and public information about accidents and maintain the trend of fewer significant accidents involving chemicals regulated under…...