Inventory: Top 10 tragic chemical accidents in the world

Inventory of the top 10 chemical accidents in the world , together with the accident shocking, human tragedy, it is worth the attention of all human beings! ! !

NO.1 Gas leakage incident at Bhopal Pesticide Plant in India

India's pesticide plant in Bhopal gas leak incident December 3rd, 1984 occurred in the history of the most serious industrial chemical accidents, resulting in death of 2.5 million people directly and 55 million indirectly to death, and another permanent disability of more than 20 million people Human tragedy.

Reason: During routine routine maintenance, due to mistakes made by the company's insecticide factory maintenance workers, water suddenly flowed into the storage tank filled with MIC gas, which caused great pressure inside the tank and eventually resulted in tanks. The wall cannot withstand pressure, and chemical substances in the tank leaked into the sky over Bhopal, soil, and groundwater, causing great harm.

NO.2 San Juanico explosion in Mexico

November 19, 1984, Pemex oil storage facility in San Juan Nico occur explosion, the plant was storing 11,000 cubic meters of liquefied propane and butane gas, the entire plant was destroyed. The explosion also destroyed the nearby town. The accident caused 542 deaths, more than 7,000 injuries, 350,000 people were left homeless, and the affected area was 270,000 cubic meters.

NO.3 Texas accident in the United States

April 16, 1947, in Texas, the United States took place on a history of the deadliest industrial accidents: a ship loaded fertilizers caught fire, explosion, fire spread to nearby chemical plant in the Gulf, and instantly ignited With oil refining facilities and oil storage tanks, the disaster caused 576 deaths and more than 3,500 injured. Only one person from the Texas City Fire Fighting Volunteer team participated in the fire fighting. Thousands of residential buildings and commercial buildings were destroyed and 1,100 ships and 362 cars were destroyed.

NO.4 Tianjin Binhai New Area explosion accident

August 12, 2015 evening, Tianjin Port Ruihai International Logistics Center storage of hazardous chemicals exploded, causing the accident 165 people were killed, 8 missing, 798 injured, 304 buildings, 12,428 goods vehicles, 7,533 containers Damaged. The direct economic loss was 6.866 billion yuan.

NO.5 Gas explosion in the sewers of Guadalajara, Mexico

April 22, 1992, due to pipeline corrosion led to the fuel leak sewer, electrical short circuit to detonate fuel, Guadalajara, Mexico City gas explosion occurred, resulting in 200 deaths, 1470 people were injured and many missing; 1124 Residential , more than 450 stores, more than 600 cars, eight kilometers long street, and communication and power lines were destroyed.

NO.6 British North Sea oil rig big explosion accident

This is the largest offshore oil rig accident in the world. Here was once the world's largest oil production rigs, crude oil can produce 310,007 thousand barrels a day. July 6, 1988, technical staff during routine maintenance, lift and inspect all of the safety valve, which is a key device used to prevent the accumulation of liquid natural gas and harm, when examined a total of 100 identical safety valves However, unfortunately, the technicians made a mistake and forgot to replace one of them. At 10 o'clock in the evening , a technician pressed a button to start a liquid natural gas pump. An oil rig accident that suffered the most damage broke out. Within two hours, 300 working platforms were swallowed by the fire and eventually collapsed, killing 167 workers and causing material losses of 3.4 billion U.S. dollars.

NO.7 Japan's Minamata disease events

The wastewater discharged by a nitrogen fertilizer company in Shuibu Town, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan contains mercury, which is enriched in seawater, sediment, and fish, and is poisoned by the food chain. At the time, the first disease was cats who loved to eat fish. After poisoning, cats became mad and jumped into the sea to commit suicide. In 1956 , patients with similar symptoms to cats appeared. Symptoms are mild lisp, gait, facial dementia, paralysis of hands and feet, sensory disturbances, loss of vision, tremors, deformed hands and feet, severe neurological disorders, or drowsiness, or excitement, and the body bows and yells until it dies. Because the cause is not clear, it is named after the local place name.

In 1991 , the number of poisoning patients announced by the Japan Environment Agency was still 2,248 , of which 1,004 were dead.

NO.8 Qingdao oil pipeline explosion

November 22, 2013, Qingdao, Shandong Huangdao District Sinopec Huang Wei pipeline a pipeline rupture accident, some of the oil into the pipeline rain along the Jiaozhou Bay, the sea oil area of about 3,000 square meters. Day 10:30 Xu, coastal areas and Zhaitang Huangdao River Road Island Road Interchange deflagration, while the sea is the occurrence of knocking on the oil-contaminated sea.

The accident caused 63 deaths, 9 missing, 156 injured and direct economic losses of 750 million yuan.

NO.9 Rhine pollution incident in Germany

November 1, 1986, the chemical company Sandoz warehouse fire incident near Basel, Switzerland, with a 1250 tons of highly toxic pesticides steel tank explosion, sulfur, phosphorus, mercury and other poisons along with hundreds of tons of fire extinguishing agent into the sewers discharged into the Rhine, the accident caused more than 600,000 fish were poisoned within a range of about 160 km, well within the range of about 480 km of exposure to pollution can not drink along the river water plant closed. The accident led to Germany’s devaluation of 21 billion U.S. dollars for investment in the Rhine .

NO.10 Explosion of Chemical Plant in Toulouse, France

September 21, 2001, the industrial city in southwestern France city of Toulouse AZF chemical plant explosion, the plant was blown into a 50-meter-wide crater 15 meters deep, two factory buildings razed to the ground. The accident killed 31 people and injured 2,500 people. This catastrophe was caused by an erroneous operation when workers mixed chemicals.

The information in this article comes from the Internet and was reorganized and edited by China Rescue Equipment Network.