Yesterday the Chemical Safety Board announced the availability of their latest chemical incident safety video: “Low Pressure, Fatal Consequence: Explosion at Yenkin-Majestic”. This video looks at the April 8th, 2021 low-pressure (less than the 15-psig minimum pressure limit for ‘high pressure’ operations standard) flammable-vapor release and explosion incident at the Yenkin-Majestic Paint Corporation facility in Columbus, Ohio. That incident resulted in the death of one employee and injuries to eight others.
While this video reviews the series of events that led to
this specific incident, it makes the point that similar problems that led to
this incident may exist at other facilities that handle flammable chemicals in vessels
designed for low-pressure operations. It emphasizes that the recommendations
made to the facility operator in this incident are applicable to many chemical
operators.
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