Safety and Loss Prevention
Food and Drink
The incident summaries provide a brief description of the event and highlight key points (including basic causes, critical factors, root causes and lessons learned) in addition to signposting interested readers to the detailed investigation report and selected other pertinent reference materials.
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Hamlet - 03 September 1991
Incident: Chicken processing plant fire. Location: USA. Keywords: analysis; connector; enforce; escape; fire; Hamlet; hose; lock; materials; normalisation; pipe; protection; repair; smoke; training. Author: Peter Marsh.
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Louisville - 11 April 2003
Incident: Spray drier feed tank catastrophic failure. Location: USA. Keywords: ammonia; code; design; explosion; FFS; inspection; instrumentation; Louisville; maintenance; PHA; registration; rupture; tank; training. Author: Peter Marsh.
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Port Wentworth - 07 February 2008
Incident: Granulated sugar conveyor belt explosion. Location: USA. Keywords: dust, evacuation, explosion, housekeeping, leadership, preparedness, sugar, training, Wentworth. Author: Peter Marsh.
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