FACTORY, GENERATING PLANT, PIPELINE EXPLOSIONS AND FIRES

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FACTORY, GENERATING PLANT, PIPELINE EXPLOSIONS AND FIRES

Ray

-- Ray (ray@totacc.com), December 12, 1999

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Someone should do a explosions VS. time graph on this

-- Rickjohn (rickjohn1@yahoo.com), December 12, 1999.

I don't see any mention on the site of the natural gas explosion that happened in Chicago about 10 -12 years ago.

I don't remember the date, but NG workers somehow manually bypassed the main regulator that knocked down the pressure that served a 2 block residential area.

I don't know the mechanics of how this was able to be done, but we were quite stunned that was even possible.

So, of course what happened was that while the workers were in the hole in the street, monkeying around, high pressure gas was now flowing through low pressure lines.

the result was either pilot lights that turned into flamethrowers, or more likely, the pilots were just snuffed out by the huge increase in flow, which of course caused the buildings to fill with NG.

Several fires and a couple of exploded houses later, one man died, (everyone else appeared to be at work), the gas company said "Wasn't our fault" and "Fortunately, our workers happened to be there so they could shut off the flow of Gas"

fortunately? (cough ..cough)

drat, now I have to go dig up this article from the library......

-- plonk! (realaddress@hotmail.com), December 12, 1999.


Superb post. The White House should release THIS material along with their supposed statistics of "how systems normally fail". Furthermore, if this list were to be updated, and I hope it will be soon, there would be another half-dozen or dozen -- maybe more -- explosions added to the list, that have occurred in the last few months. That Oak Ridge, TN nuke plant explosion; the Coleman propane facility explosion, etc. etc. Seems like a day hardly goes by anymore without serious chemical explosions causing tragic injuries.

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-- SH (squirrel@huntr.com), December 12, 1999.


Here's a trivial question: "technically speaking" is this the JoAnne Effect? or something analogous.

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-- SH (squirrel;@huntr.com), December 12, 1999.


"technically speaking" it is NOT a JAE (Jo Anne Effect) example.

What is the JAE?



-- plonk! (realaddress@hotmail.com), December 12, 1999.



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