Explosion and Fire at Williams Olefins Plant, Geismar, Louisiana Read the CSB's 2016 Impact Report: www.csb.gov/csb-releases-2016-...
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@IAm18PercentCarbon7 жыл бұрын
Whoever makes these videos at the USCSB, or whoever had the idea to make these, is a genius. They make safety FUN. (Okay, more accurately, ENGAGING, thank you for pointing that out)
@KiloByte696 жыл бұрын
USCSB doesn't make the videos, they hire a contractor.
@silentype30085 жыл бұрын
@@KiloByte69 He said, "Whoever makes these videos at the USCSB, *or whoever had the idea to make these,* is a genius. They make safety FUN." Which implies he already had in my mind that USCSB may not have made the videos per se, so he applauded the individual who's idea it was to have the videos made in the first place.
@FreeStuffPlease4 жыл бұрын
@@silentype3008 He is just dropping info
@gorillaau4 жыл бұрын
Fun is not a word that I would use. They make it easy to understand than reading the case study or the full accident report (if readily available)
@NicholasLittlejohn4 жыл бұрын
@@gorillaau laugh a little
@jabuck85626 жыл бұрын
The scary thing with many of these accidents is that you could be working right next to a dangerous container or pipe and not even know.
@tommybear10975 жыл бұрын
The positive thing is that if the pipe or container did blow you wouldn't know. I hate to say it but this guy got lucky in his death, there are many horrible ways but this happened so fast that he wouldn't have had time to process it. One second he's breathing and looking at something, then a microsecond later he just doesn't exist anymore.
@jed-henrywitkowski64705 жыл бұрын
@@tommybear1097 Morbid, yet true. I'd wanna go the same way if I were a chem plant employee involved in accident.
@bluef1sh9265 жыл бұрын
You are there, a second later you're everywhere.
@BadPenny34 жыл бұрын
I've worked in an oil refinery a few times, and it's an unsettling feeling to know that some guy 50 feet away from you can do something wrong and kill you without warning.
@peterf.2294 жыл бұрын
@Jimmy De'Souza have you ever seen the results of an explosion? the guy was most likely killed by shrapnel injuries or blast wave over pressure.
@WheatMillington7 жыл бұрын
God I love these videos. Similar to junky Discovery shows but without all the bullshit, and actually educational for the teams at work.
@coreyschmidt16476 жыл бұрын
You do realize the modern marvels engineering disasters episodes use these videos for content and merely summarize the content for the layperson.
@allesklarklaus1476 жыл бұрын
Corey Schmidt Summarize? They always repeat everything 5 times. Could cut the episodes down to 2 minutes basically
@xxlegolas5 жыл бұрын
It's all great except the people that are reading off a prompter and don't sound like they know this subject material. I don't understand why they don't put actual experts in front of the camera.
@xxlegolas5 жыл бұрын
@@thomaszinser8714 That's a very good point.
@neilpuckett3595 жыл бұрын
@@thomaszinser8714 yes lets put a former Waffle house waitress in front of the camera.
@shalashaskaa87 жыл бұрын
Sad part is there was probably a maintenance guy who pointed this out and he was told by a "manager" it was ok because it was shut down
@walterbrunswick5 жыл бұрын
Managers are hazardous to everyone's health.
@slappy89415 жыл бұрын
In my experience, managers will ignore all employee input regarding safety, then after catastrophe strikes they create a bunch of stupid new rules that don't address actual safety issues, but look good on paper.
@loailulu36595 жыл бұрын
100000000% agree
@beavis14165 жыл бұрын
Funny I used to work at a petroleum plant with such high potential dangers, managers and cowardly unions, so I quit after five years of bullshit. Now this happens and will happen again.
@peterf.2294 жыл бұрын
oh we all know this is true. Im sure that some low level employee was ignored and warned of what was gonna happened and guess what ? it happened. but profits = more important than safety of employees or the environment.
@peasley92 жыл бұрын
Thank you CSB. I'm an area manager at a large chemical manufacturing plant and I take your videos and recommendations very seriously. This makes a difference
@00bean002 жыл бұрын
Thank you and bless you
@JaviBee2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for caring about your workers, if only more employers were like you when it came to safety
@Chad-Giga. Жыл бұрын
Sorry you have to work with drunk chemists all day
@sketchyAnalogies4 ай бұрын
I was just hired as a field service engineer, so I'll likely be a contractor at a number of sites. Seeing videos like this get me on edge because it seems doubtful that contractors are briefed on the bug picture. I probably won't know if an operation is safe or not, and will have to take someone's word. Thank you for caring!
@hxhuang93067 жыл бұрын
I just want to appreciate how realistic that CGI fire and smoke is. It's actually no big deal with current computer effects, but many animations just won't bother using Nuke or such.
@airplanemaniacgaming78774 жыл бұрын
@Crystal Dreams ?kcuf eht tahw ,em esucxE
@FishFind30003 жыл бұрын
It’s the government. It’s your taxes that pay for this high quality cgi
@JayPersing3 жыл бұрын
@@FishFind3000 it's fucking fantastic though
@jordanbell47363 жыл бұрын
An excellent and eminently appropriate use of the taxes taken by the government
@muddskipper3 жыл бұрын
Yeah they've got some serious particle simulations in these! They even looked good (for the time) back in 2008 when they started posting them.
@kittyNya385 жыл бұрын
If the name of a machine ends with something that sounds like ”inator”, there’s a good chance that it will blow up
@katiekane52475 жыл бұрын
Boominator
@alanhaywood015 жыл бұрын
Resinator (well its close) :-)
@bluef1sh9265 жыл бұрын
bomb doesn't have "inator" in its name, see? it must be safe 🤔
@proformconstructionmainten79454 жыл бұрын
a bomb needs a det"inator" though lol.
@Trusty_Steed4 жыл бұрын
Turboencabulator?
@Moose63407 жыл бұрын
These guys can make process safety interesting. That's amazing. The animations are first rate and the explanations are clear enough even for a layman like me.
@peterf.2294 жыл бұрын
all you need is common sense. They do break it down to why the failures happened and what can be done ot prevent them in the future. even when they dont have all the information they can conclude some things.
@tiffanyribbons Жыл бұрын
This is why I’m becoming a process safety engineer!!! So these videos don’t have to exist anymore :(
@TylerWard3357 жыл бұрын
I was there when this happened, it's unbelievable how loud it was.
@BenjaminEsposti7 жыл бұрын
Considering the thickness of the walls on that reboiler ... hell yeah it must have been loud! I wonder what pressure levels it had right before the explosion. Like, 1000PSI? I'd do some calculations if I knew more about the specifics, like incoming steam/water temperature, efficiency, and how much propane was in there.
@barryross58406 жыл бұрын
TylerWard335 were all in shut down season here in the tar sands in Fort mac. The hydrogen furnace at my site was 1 of 3 built, and now it's the only one left, the other 2 have blown up. Been 3 evacs this week. by this week, I mean last 4 days. Funny you mention how loud, I keep my earplugs in at emergency assembly area. Keel safe brother.
@kingjames48866 жыл бұрын
way more than 1000PSI...
@xwinger156 жыл бұрын
Barry Ross what site was that?? I never heard about anything about that...
@barryross58406 жыл бұрын
xwinger15 It's Suncor, Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. Northern Alberta is the 3rd largest deposit of oil known in our world to date. Out of the many major players here Suncor was the first to build here, proving profitability off of the extraction method required to separate sand from bitumen. It's boiler was built in 1964, and is still in use. One thing I can say I'm thankful for is our meticulous procedures in place that are centralized and tailored to specific needs of oil industry in Alberta. It may be a pain to take so much time, planning, check, balances, and safety precautions, but it keeps the train running, and employees alive. I'm a pipe welder in local 488.
@thekiminthenorth5047 жыл бұрын
USCSB is the best
@XeroVMK5 жыл бұрын
Investigator Lauren Grim is the first person on all these videos that feels natural and she did the best job at explaining the incident. She should get more time in your future videos. As always, super good content. I use many of these lessons in my professional life.
@tashkiira78384 жыл бұрын
That's the problem with using top field experts. They know their stuff inside and out, but not necessarily how to communicate it. It's a lot like university professors. They know their stuff hands down, but getting some of them to EXPLAIN it, to TEACH, is hard because they don't know how to teach and/or don't really want to.
@chasethames2845 Жыл бұрын
Smash 👊🏻
@fr89k Жыл бұрын
@@tashkiira7838 Have you ever been to a scientific conference? I am currently doing my PhD and have attended a few conferences and the presentations are (mostly) just nightmarish. The slides are horrible, the structure is often horrible, the data representation is horrible, and sometimes the speech is horrible. Presentations on scientific conferences are cabinets full of horrors.
@chrisperrien70559 ай бұрын
Yea, she has some public speaking skills and doesn't sound as robotic as some others just reading lines. I suspect she had a chance to edit the lines she spoke to be more "coloquial". Others seem to have just read off "tech lines " written by others,(I suspect engineers ) who have little or no public speaking/speech writing/presentation skills. The world of STEM,😎. As a statistician,I used to gather data about manufacturing processes and methods and properly classify business firms. And some of the people I spoke to, would be explaining what they did, and although they spoke clear English, I could hardly understand a word they were saying. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A story while I am stuck in bed. I am disabled vet There was one guy , we had the business he worked for as a "sand and gravel pit". The "sand" they "dug-up" and sold was $800K a ton, when "sand" sold normally at about $4 a ton. So I asked him what they did. He said about 25 words , I understood 2 of them. And I used to think I was smart (IQ154), Nope ! LOL The two words "computer" and "semi-conductor". The rest was technical jargon I had no clue of. Yea, They dug up and sold sand alright, in Sunnyvale California, a.k.a (Silicon Valley) LOL. Was actually a computer chip making firm. FYI -The "sand" in that area is high in silicon content and very clean. One of the original reasons so many computer firms started there.
@edithsantirdz34757 жыл бұрын
Thank you for these videos, we have used it before in México to our coompany to make changes and apply the recomendations of this videos and reports. It has let us improve our process and safety!
@tashkiira78384 жыл бұрын
And that's why the CSB releases them so publicly. These aren't trade secrets, fractionators and heat exchangers are common knowledge (or at least common enough that even a slight engineering bent means you know roughly what they do). There's no harm to the subject company (the industry knows Williams had an explosion at Geismar, and roughly why, so it's not like that's a secret either). If the videos are disseminated publicly, it can prevent things from happening in other places, maybe.
@chamonix46583 жыл бұрын
@@tashkiira7838 USCSB help the whole world, saving lives
@Syclone0044 Жыл бұрын
It’s great that all US Government works are public domain with no copyright, so the entire world can freely utilize things like this, with our compliments. 🇺🇸 Very proud as an American to be helping the world’s workers lives be more safe.
@kenbobca6 жыл бұрын
Basic rule: Never open pressure into a vessel without first opening an outlet for that pressure to exit the vessel.
@someonesomewhere12406 жыл бұрын
That wouldn't have saved them, as the issue was the propane already present in the reboiler - they didn't let any more in. The pressure being supplied was water, and the outlet was also opened. Over-pressure relief needs to be present *everywhere*.
@brucehand80316 жыл бұрын
No procedure sign off? Real dump mistake!
@dickJohnsonpeter6 жыл бұрын
Ken Karnes don't eat beans with your ass closed.
@mattmopar4406 жыл бұрын
Someone Somewhere the Propane outlet was not open that was the problem so again Never bring a Pressure vessel online without opening the outlet or a vent
@Txepetxcc5 жыл бұрын
Someone Somewhere The output was closed.
@DrThunder885 жыл бұрын
"Propylene fractionator reboiler" is fun to say. It's so...industrial.
@deathkeys13 жыл бұрын
so true!
@gemfyre8553 жыл бұрын
Sounds like a Bernoulli Convergenator or Flux Capacitor
@Scouarn3 жыл бұрын
"I sell propane and propane accessories"
@muddskipper3 жыл бұрын
It sounds scifi as fuck lmao
@MalcolmCooks3 жыл бұрын
ah, perry the platypus, you're just in time to see my latest invention! behold - the propylene fractionator reboilinator!
@ede72082 жыл бұрын
When I worked maintenance at one of the largest freezer warehouses in the U.S. our management made maintenance a priority. After 10 years it was saving money that became a priority and they didn't care to keep up with maintenance. The ammonia alarms in the freezers were turned off because they gave false alarms. The sprinkler systems also did not work in the freezers and were turned off. Our managers always said that safety came first but that end up a lie. After many years instead of a once monthly safety training meetings they went to once yearly. Many new hires in maintenance had no idea what to do if there was an ammonia leak. There were many OSHA violations at our warehouse but they stopped inspections so management did not worry about violations. If a safety problem came up they covered it up if it cost them money. They would write us up for safety violations for not wearing an orange vest but turned a blind eye to far more serious violations such as the ammonia alarms and sprinkler systems did not work properly.
@phil-o-phobic86084 ай бұрын
This sounds like a set up in Final Destination
@chrstfer24527 жыл бұрын
I'm glad your organization exists and that you produce these videos for the public. That's so excellent.
@bhushaaa42447 жыл бұрын
That's a badass logo animation USCSB has got there.
@jimmyshrimbe93615 жыл бұрын
Lauren Grim. Great name for a CSB Investigator,
@johnballs13525 жыл бұрын
I like it too
@Galfrid3 жыл бұрын
Narrator: Unable to become a mortician, or work at the coroner's office, she reluctantly sought a career in safety. Little did she know...😂
@chasmosaurus36 жыл бұрын
Additionally, there is no reason to have a "standby" heat exchanger that sits idle for over a year. The isolating valves were also idle. You can't trust a valve that is never periodically tested. Were a valve exercise program in place, the technicians would have been familiar with the process of switching from one heat exchanger to the other and the inherent dangers of only operating one set of valves.
@DurzoBlunts6 жыл бұрын
I learn more about the chemical processes than safety in these videos sometimes. Love it! Sad for the accidents that are almost always preventable from a higher up decision making position.
@Jayfive2767 жыл бұрын
Informative videos + clickbait-free video titles + things go boom = hammering that sub button.
@airplanemaniacgaming78774 жыл бұрын
Also, a serious BINGE!
@jeeplife20352 жыл бұрын
I was there that day when it exploded. Very scary because I wasn’t that far from the area. One of the most nerve racking thing I’ve ever been thru
@fohdeesha7 жыл бұрын
as usual, great content. and as usual, the accident and resulting deaths were *completely* preventable. Hollywood and the like has the general public believing industrial accidents are always freak incidents that nobody could have seen coming. when in reality anyone paying attention to the process design and paperwork would have seen this (and nearly every other accident) years before it happened. all it would have took was following guidelines put in place by people smarter than us by the letter. but as usual, pinching pennies was deemed more important than thorough safety culture. these videos always leave me thinking not "how could this have happened!?", but rather "how did this not happen sooner? so many ignored issues". I long for the day the CSB investigations disappear, because there are no more accidents. but until then, very educational content
@BenjaminEsposti7 жыл бұрын
Indeed it was completely preventable, but you know, unfortunately, wherever humans go, there is the risk of things like this happening, no matter how fool-proof something is.
@cameronwebster68667 жыл бұрын
My high school electronics teacher always said that most accidents are actually neglec-ccidents
@fohdeesha7 жыл бұрын
that might be my new favorite phrase
@JP-wx6uh7 жыл бұрын
It is all about money. Same story over and over. Even where I work, we are constantly giving our recommendations based on regs and risk assessment matrices; but if the departments do not like what we have to say, they will find ways to go around us in order to get what they want. There needs to be a significant increase in the number of inspections, particularly in the academia area and healthcare facilities. But that requires more budget and more jobs for inspections to occur. Now that dumbo is in the White House, it looks like he is going to do the exact opposite of what is needed in terms of OSHA and EPA support.
@wiretamer57106 жыл бұрын
I would add, that the language is failing all of us. Accident is simply wrong. Unforced errors, negligence and ignorance are not accidents. An accident is an unexpected event that is impossible to prevent... like a tree falling on a moving car, or being struck by lightning. Accents are relatively rare events. Yet 'incident' simply does not cut it to describe a preventable industrial disaster. The saddest thing is the CSB is a toothless tiger. It cannot force companies to learn from incidents at other factories. It can only 'recommend' changes which most companies clearly ignore. I don't know if the act covering the CSB gives it power on paper, or it has been de-funded to the point where enforcing its federal mandate is impossible. Either way, the corporations clearly control local and state governments
@chrisparkes4 жыл бұрын
I have never worked in the kinds of industries shown in these videos, but I have learned so much watching them (chiefly that anything that prioritises profit over people costs working people their lives). Thanks for the fantastic work you do.
@likydsplit84832 жыл бұрын
To be fair, it can be tough to get workers to follow safety processes. I worked as a safety & compliance officer for a construction company years ago. It was constant battle to get guys to even wear basic PPE, not to mention lockout/tagout.
@MeekieMeekins Жыл бұрын
I hope I’m not the only single that watches these on Friday nights. Fascinating.
@mitcholla5 жыл бұрын
3:59 - I like how the control panels are DJ mixers.
@MarkTillotson2 жыл бұрын
More like a mixing desk, but yes - a quick way to get the right sort of texture for the animators I guess.
@vejet7 жыл бұрын
Sweet, another beautiful new CSB report. Now lets hope these hard lessons are learned and lives are actually saved going forward.
@travelingtom9236 жыл бұрын
You would think at some point, they would have installed a simple pressure gauge on this pressure vessel.
@tashkiira78384 жыл бұрын
The dial would have spun noticeably at startup. Propane expands almost as much as water does when it boils..
@FishFind30003 жыл бұрын
@@tashkiira7838 would be nice if there was a pressure sensor and emergency dump valves for this.
@Danni_Ashford4 жыл бұрын
These videos are amazing. Technical terms used in conjunction with layman’s terms, to produce a video that everyone can understand. Such an important subject matter too.
@Anolaana7 жыл бұрын
I wish Seconds from Disaster would consult with these folks at the USCSB like Mayday/ACI works with the NTSB!
@sarahdon34356 жыл бұрын
These USCSB videos are fantastic. I'm so glad that they took the time to make these detailed videos about accidents so we can all learn from them.
@VelocityMoviesInc7 жыл бұрын
The sound design in this video is really great. 4:28 sent chills down my spine.
@noijze6 жыл бұрын
That's because they used alot of dj-mixers in the control room 3:57
@lo27403 жыл бұрын
@@noijze haha, good one
@psarizona7 жыл бұрын
I always learn so much from the CSB videos. Thank you for all the hard work that makes this critical information available to us all!
@Mirandorl3 жыл бұрын
"Maintenance and safety waaa spensive don't wanna" * Explosion and death happens "HIRE THE MOST EXPENSIVE LAWYERS AVAILABLE"
@PSYK0MANT1S4 жыл бұрын
Quarantine 2020, I'm addicted to this channel and have been binging on these videos for hours. So good.
@yongguizhang95757 жыл бұрын
the key is the relief valve was isolated from the reboiler by the MOC of adding isolation manual valve.
@qwerty1123117 жыл бұрын
omg finally. I've been having to go back and watch past videos I've seen several times.
@flailios6 жыл бұрын
Plants like that should have a scheduled big shut once every 12 months. The fact that the exchanger was running for 16 months, even when they could cut over to the secondary exchanger says everything about the plant's manager.
@dercrafterhd86283 жыл бұрын
Wow these videos are actually genius. I am a youth from germany but thanks to the USCSB I now know a lot about safe working in petrol refineries. But on a serious note: I wish more companies / government agencies would make the efforts to produce videos of this kind. This is illustrative but without any dramatizing "bullshit".
@mattjohnston76867 жыл бұрын
I used to work at a medicine plant in Elkton Virginia. we watched videos like this all the time.
@fredbach60394 жыл бұрын
I used to write industrial checklists. Two requirements are strong paranoia and extreme fussiness, attention to detail. There should have been a local pressure gauge and an audible alarm on those reboilers. I agree with this report. The culture of safety appeared to be lacking.
@morsine3 жыл бұрын
I don't live in US neither have anything to do with the type of equipment in your videos, but I enjoy watching them. thank you for making these.
@jimmyshrimbe93615 жыл бұрын
Your explosion animations are so awesome!
@iDorandomSht7 жыл бұрын
been waiting for so long for this, I love these videos, so informative
@johndoyle47235 жыл бұрын
Very sad loss of life and the investigation showed how it could have, and should have, been avoided. I never quite trusted pressure relief valves, and always installed them in parallel with a slightly higher rated bursting disc. Never have a fixed block valve in a vent line, even if locked open, there is always a chance of someone operating it, if it can be messed up, someone will. Maintenance blanks between flanges also used to give me sleepless nights, I would insist on personally checking the work if I had issued the permit, before signing off for return to service. I retired from the industry after 30 years and thankfully never responsible for a fatality,or serious injury, I cannot imagine how an engineer would cope with such an event. Good video, thanks.
@pr4wn5tar4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the high quality content, honest and factual, and not dumbed down. Perfect!
@Bacony_Cakes4 жыл бұрын
Behold, my Propylene Fractionator! *4:36* CURSE YOU PERRY THE PLATYPUUUUS!
@SubvertTheState2 жыл бұрын
CSB somehow captures the danger of an overpressurized and overheated vessel just through animation. I've also been binging safety videos but I just wanted to commend the animators for being able to do that.
@villedocvalle2 жыл бұрын
These videos should be mandatory for all government agencies. We, the public, would greatly benefit.
@titaniumsandwedge6 жыл бұрын
Most of these videos are very good. This one is not clear. What did the supervisor turn the hot water on the exchanger that had been out of service for over a year? If he intended to start up the exchanger, the isolation valves on the shell side must be open. Very strange. Years ago, as part of a maintenance procedure, a blind was placed upstream of a pressure relief valve protecting a reactor. This was done to prevent cleaning chemicals from damaging the PSV. The reactor was started up with the bind un-removed. As luck would have it, a run-away reaction occurred. Plant workers told me the reactor deformed to a totally spherical shape before it blew.
@hallerd6 жыл бұрын
He opened it because he didn't expect it to be filled with propane, or at least not enough to cause the explosion that killed him.
@someonesomewhere12406 жыл бұрын
Manager may not have understood or thought about the consequences of what he was doing - open valves A, B, C, and D... but order matters.
@easttexan29336 жыл бұрын
First rule of operations......Never allow a supervisor to do operations work !!
@OmmerSyssel5 жыл бұрын
Why should he care? Hot water was the only way to start the process. No one knew the release valve was blocked on that side of the system.. The accumulation of leaked gas was also unknown. "We this do as usual".. 💥
@tttarms19705 жыл бұрын
@@hallerd plus the block going to the relief was closed
@barryross58406 жыл бұрын
I've worked for Williams b4, building Liquid Extraction Plants.Tapping into flare stacks in refineries to make plastics, a lot of stainless on that one.
@boeing747-83 жыл бұрын
Anyone else go on binges of watching these?
@airman6115 жыл бұрын
I believe the Shell Chemical (now Kraton) at Marietta, OH had a similar problem. In an explosion probably 25 years ago, a process compression system exploded because a gate valve downstream of the compressor had been closed as the compressor operated. A cardinal rule in process compression: Always design with a relief/safety valve between the compressor and the first valve downstream of the compressor. In the situation at Shell the gate valve downstream had been closed while the compressor was operating...no relief/safety in between and an explosion resulted with several operators killed.
@40below10004 ай бұрын
I love these. I load them into an ASMR queue and go to sleep listening to them. Good job, US gummint
@BrianGLee-bc7hj Жыл бұрын
Strong believer in the programs involved. Participated in many reviews in my 50 years in the Chemical Industry
@cgirl1114 жыл бұрын
As a 25 year US nuclear plant operations veteran these videos astound me.
@csme073 жыл бұрын
I’m an sro and these are literally absurd I would definitely go with E0 and fucking leave if this was happening in my room.
@raymondedge88897 жыл бұрын
It's just crazy that these HE's were not fitted with pressure and temperature sensors.
@The13point16 жыл бұрын
Raymond Edge They most likely were, with pressure gauges and thermometers. That doesn’t prevent anything.
@MarkTillotson2 жыл бұрын
Be better to have audible alarm and pressure relief valves, and even better still stick with the original design which was probably done with care and attention to detail by true professionals.
@freas85204 жыл бұрын
As a NDT technician I find these videos well done and interesting!
@nickeltakach7 жыл бұрын
there are some design issue, every unfired pressure vessel shall have a pressure relief valve to be set to lift off and release the pressure, the set point to be lower than shell pressure test, thus preventing the shell from rupturing. Each heat exchanger shall have its own relief valve.
@gregoyo18627 жыл бұрын
no shit sherlock...
@ymrbleav95777 жыл бұрын
Great job as usual. There should be more people watching these videos!!!
@NandakishoreK173 жыл бұрын
I don't about these companies which overlook safety over profits. But man, these animations and investigations are detailed. CSB is awesome. Keep up the good work. Hopefully these operations get audited frequently and save lives.
@am743434 жыл бұрын
I love these animations of the people in the plant: "Hey, Joe! How was your lunch?" "Oh, pretty good... I had macaroni 'n' cheese." "How are Cathy and the kids?" "Oh, Johnny's doing well in school... He got all A's this semester!" *EXPLOSIONNNNN*
@catieadair977 жыл бұрын
I love these videos.
@RatusMax7 жыл бұрын
I want them to get a T.V show like Air Crash Investigation or whatever they call it. These are the jobs I want to do.
@BenjaminEsposti7 жыл бұрын
Catie Adair Me too! I'm so weird. X'D
@bjammin7d Жыл бұрын
Man I love CSB’s videos
@grantjohnston58173 жыл бұрын
Ex engineer gasoline tanker 600 feet!These type of incidents are exactly why i got out of the industry.Saved My life!
@Sam-hj5ok3 жыл бұрын
Literally hooked to this channel now
@einsibongo3 жыл бұрын
These are amazing videos thank you.
@cruzanbum31085 жыл бұрын
I've been an operator in the petrochem industry for 15 years and it's incredible to me how many accidents there still is. The industry is still evolving and standardizing, I suppose.
@cruzanbum31085 жыл бұрын
3ds max it’s KZbin bro. I don’t proofread all my comments before posting
@alexkrxxx3 жыл бұрын
This is my favorite USCSB video
@shuriKen4695 жыл бұрын
160 injuries?! were they standing around about to celebrate the decade plus of the valve system working without issue?
@tashkiira78384 жыл бұрын
I don't think you really understand how big an explosion this was, and in how big a plant. Between shrapnel, falling debris, fire, and a dozen other things, across the entire plant, 160 injuries (many of which would be minor) is a little low.
@Eyetrauma4 жыл бұрын
"Jerry, I just want to commemorate that bangup job you did on the pre-use checklist the other day. Everyone, a toast to the most safety-conscious man in the plant!" * sweats *
@Eyetrauma4 жыл бұрын
"Jerry, I just want to commemorate that bangup job you did on the pre-use checklist the other day. Everyone, a toast to the most safety-conscious man in the plant!" * sweats *
@Eyetrauma4 жыл бұрын
"Jerry, I just want to commemorate that bangup job you did on the pre-use checklist the other day. Everyone, a toast to the most safety-conscious man in the plant!" "Haha...yeah..."
@Galfrid3 жыл бұрын
One guy: "I, uh, lost sleep over it" Second: "I totally missed my pilates class and got fat" Third: "Ow, my uterus!"
@mythril47 жыл бұрын
Every time I watch these videos, I have the most effective and simplified safety fixes to all of them. For instance, these valves. With the power of simple magnetism, some wire, a light panel and and loud alarm. I can build of very inexpensive indicator panel at the vessel, that lights green for each valve opened correctly. Any valve not opened in sequence will cause a red light and the alarm to scream until that valve is opened. Total cost? About $400 for all the parts I need and you'd never see this issue. I can put one loud alarm on the panel, you won't forget. For good measure and another $100, I'll have a redundancy failsafe circuit.
@thebigmacd6 жыл бұрын
Except it would all have to be an intrinsically-safe system using explosion-proof components and safety-rated industrial controllers - all signed off on by a Professional Engineer - so it would cost you $400,000.
@Cchange4us5 жыл бұрын
^^^^ this.
@thedolphin54285 жыл бұрын
Dragon Steel simply explains a fail safe system for double checking operation. Don't poo poo his thinking. The idea is totally sound, an idiot proof check system which Ibthink should be complusory on EVERY plant where human errors can kill people. Any design or installment cost is negligible compared to catastrophic consequences.
@toddt61864 жыл бұрын
How about installing sensors to pick up percentages of flammables in hear exchangers and a releaf valve too.
@jontrout20107 жыл бұрын
Awesome, informative content!
@manqobamkhwanazi19566 жыл бұрын
Im final year chemical engineering student designing a destillation column and this fouling of the reboiler and using two reboilers, one as a standby should the main reboiler need maintenance gives me an idea for my design to prevent shutdown. Can someone comment on this, is it economically viable to prevent shutdown to include two reboilers?
@o0o-jd-o0o95 Жыл бұрын
That's incredible when you're going for over 10 years and everything's been working fine you kinda don't think that anything's going to go wrong especially when it went wrong over 10 years ago
@michaelcox51664 жыл бұрын
interesting to see how these animations get better over time.
@oldgysgt6 жыл бұрын
Safety is job one, but most people forget that. First question to be asked is, "what could possibly go wrong?" The old AT&T, ("MA BELL"), System had a plaque on the wall in every building reading, "No job is so important, no service is so urgent, that we can't take the time to perform our work safely". The last time I was in an AT&T building, I noticed those plaques had been removed.
@kentslocum6 ай бұрын
"Fractionator" sounds like an evil mathematic weapon devised by Dr. Doofenshmirtz .
@TheWilferch7 жыл бұрын
A "Cultural" issue....that I speak about so often. The MOC ( Management of Change) process was used AFTER THE FACT as a CYA( "cover-your-a$$) effort....and not as a tool to identify hazards. It speaks to a larger work-culture issue as to how this company....and its design and operating staff.....view regulatory requirements. At some point having procedures and regulatory laws in-place is not enough....it's how the "Company" ( everyone.....top-to-bottom-and-sideways) has been trained and "believes" in the value of these safety protocols. It's a key element in safety training that I am involved with...and this "cultural" issue is often ignored or given short-shrift as to impact.
@jwarha77977 жыл бұрын
Great video!
@kaydogcreations2 жыл бұрын
Your Channel has taught me more than school did. would of been awesome to learn all this stuff in high school.
@jadams1722 Жыл бұрын
Yeah… because everyone should learn process hazard analysis in high school
@billthecat1296 жыл бұрын
These videos are very helpful based on how they explain what happened. There would be more value in these great videos by outlining the "why" behind how decisions were made and the factors influencing the decisions. This particular video eluded to safety culture and I would be most interested in assessment results.
@amelliamendel22275 жыл бұрын
I just love this narrator.
@turbo14317 жыл бұрын
I'm very impressed at the quality of the videos here. Compared to the NTSB, you guys might as well be a Hollywood blockbuster. And I think you use SFM to animate these, which is hilarious to me
@kenbellchambers45774 жыл бұрын
It seems like a good idea to look closely at prevention of tarry residues ever entering the heat exchangers in the first place. This might reducing the necessity for excessive maintenance on the boilers.
@MarkTillotson2 жыл бұрын
But then you have to make sure the de-tarring process doesn't introduce other hazards of its own - my suspicion is the change never got signed off by a professional plant design engineer who would never have made such a mistake.
@zaquethebadass46725 жыл бұрын
Excelente as animações!!! Parabéns.
@willow0914 жыл бұрын
The block valves needed tagged/locked out for the 16 months it was out of service. + a working safety needed installed of course. This lack of safety valve has resulted in accidents elsewhere.
@aciddroper70456 жыл бұрын
??.hi all, someone know what software used to make this process animation that in the video . very good video !
@sadiquehaque2100003 жыл бұрын
While adding new valves I hope MOC was prepared , so how they forgot to perform risk assessment before installation ??
@eclipse13085 жыл бұрын
thank you for excellent IIR! I will use it for safety moment💓
@coolwhoami7 жыл бұрын
The Impact report you linked had its url truncated, you should consider editing it. Another great video, always interesting to watch these.
@SebAnders4 жыл бұрын
If there's one thing I've learned from these videos it's that working around all these pipes and valves is a deathtrap! Nobody knows what the hell is going on in any of them, whether or not flammable liquid or enough pressure to send you to the moon has built up!
@snickle19803 жыл бұрын
😂 That's totally the voice of Winnie the Poo. 😂
@jolesco7 жыл бұрын
Very informative and detailed video. Plese make more videos like this, but let's hope for less accidents in the future
@FerroequinologistofColorado6 жыл бұрын
I just realized why not change the work procedures so that the vent valve is required that be left open on the standby reboiler when it’s offline
@rodhatter95644 жыл бұрын
Guess im missing something? If the Supervisor opened a water valve. The water pressure was lower than the product pressure regardless of heat the vessel high pressure would have pushed the water backwards to the other exchanger and lifted the PRV's that protect the other exchanger? Or was there a check valve in line?
@MarkTillotson2 жыл бұрын
The water and propane are separate, that's the point of a heat exchanger - only heat is exchanged, nothing else!!
@stephanieparker12503 ай бұрын
USCSB did a great job with these videos. 👍
@Patrick_B687-37 жыл бұрын
How was rhis missed in the PSM/MOC Process?
@copyth57485 жыл бұрын
Even tho this makes no sense to me, it's still interesting to watch. The animations are amazing too!
@riveness7 жыл бұрын
Yeah don't put valves between the PRV's.
@jtmalone113 жыл бұрын
You see this all the time in the field and it’s usually so you can perform routine maintenance on the PRVs like rupture disc swaps without shutting down the process. However, there has to clear procedures on when it is appropriate to block in the valves. As mentioned in the video, the block valves should be locked open and operations should be notified when it needs to be closed.
@Less1leg23 жыл бұрын
I thought, ASME Code doesn't permit a manual isolation valve between the Relief Valve and the Vessel. As meaning, you cannot block a Safety Relief Device.