Archive for the ‘Incident Investigation’ Category

GAO: CSB Not Meeting Its Statutory Mandates

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

According to a recent report (Aug. 2008) from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the Chemical Safety Board (CSB) is not in compliance with its statutory mandates.  The CSB is an independent federal agency charged with investigating industrial chemical accidents and has been in operation since 1998. GAO report states that ...

1944 Cleveland LNG Incident: Lessons Learnt

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

An explosion occurred at East Ohio Company’s peak-shaving plant in Cleveland, Ohio on October 20, 1944. 128 people were killed and 225 injured as a result of the incident. East Ohio Company built a LNG peak-shaving facility in Cleveland in 1941 to augment the gas supply. In 1943, a cylindrical storage ...