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| Cases of Industrial Accidents Occurred in Japan | ||
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| In Japan, nearly 2,000 workers
still die annually from industrial accidents and the number of serious
accidents in which 3 or more people suffer death/injury tops 200. In fact, many of these accidents are similar to the past incidents in their nature. Therefore, we need to take full preventive measures against repeating those tragic accidents by case-studying the past incidents. In light of this, we've decided to describe on this page cases of industrial accidents occurred in Japan including their summaries and leading causes. |
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 No.59 |
Methyl bromide poisoning while
cleaning a grain silo (English) |
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| No.51 |
Anoxia during scaffolding work
to repair the intake pit at a garbage disposal site (English) |
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| No.50 |
Two victims and a rescuer suffered
from anoxia in a sewerage system manhole (English) |
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| No.48 |
Chlorine gas poisoning at drinking
water facilities (English) |
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| No.47 |
Acute organic solvent poisoning
while washing the inside of a drum with toluene (English) |
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| No.46 |
Anoxia fatality during hatch-opening
work following lumber fumigation in a ship's cargo hold (English) |
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| No.44 |
Inhaling ethylene oxide gas during
sterilization work in a hospital (English) |
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| No.43 |
Explosion inside a tank during
wastewater system repair work (English) |
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| No.41 |
Explosion due to abnormal reaction
in the refining process for explosive materials (English) |
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| No.40 |
Explosion at surface treatment
furnace for automobile components (English) |
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| No.39 |
Dust explosion when flour was
fed into a storage hopper by air pressure (English) |
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| No.38 |
Tank explosion due to a chemical
reaction because the hose of a tank truck was connected to the wrong flange
(English) |
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| No.10 |
Organic solvent poisoning during
work to remodel a used tank (English) |
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| No.5 |
Chemical burns to skin by contact
with high-density raw liquid phenol while taking countermeasures against
abnormal reactions in the synthesizing reaction process for phenol (English) |
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| No.3 |
A reaction vessel burst due to
a sudden increase in its internal pressure as a result of abnormal reactions
during the process producing intermediate pharmaceutical products (English) |
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| No.2 |
Paper dust ignited during repair
work milling room of a paper manufacturing plant (English) |
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This page updated on April 26, 2005
