Monday Accident & Lessons Learned: You Don’t Want Your Company to Have One of These Investigations

The CSB has been waiting (this was written on April 4) for access to the site of the Mitsui Terminal Fire in Deer Park, TX, since the fire started on March 17.

That’s the smoke from the fire. Michelle Wishoun from SI took this photo while they were on vacation in Galveston.

You can’t begin an investigation until the scene is safe. But this is the type of investigation you hope you never have to do.

You hope your safety systems work and prevent a major accident. One of those safety systems is to learn from precursor incidents, find the precursor incident root causes, and implement effective fixes to STOP future major accidents.

I’ve never seen a major accident that wasn’t foreshadowed by one or, perhaps many, precursor incidents. If the precursor incidents had been effectively investigated and fixed, there would be NO major accident.

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