During security testing conducted by the operator in the presence of the inspection of classified facilities, 2 shut-off valves did not operate at the tractor-trailer unloading station of an LPG depot. In the event of an anomaly, these positive safety[...]
A chemical plant manufacturing basic organic chemicals was partly flooded when the reactors were being washed. The washing water (acrylic emulsions) got mixed with the flood water due to the backflow of the water in the pipeline and in the[...]
Heavy rains together with several breaks in RHONE River dikes caused the flooding of a warehouse containing agro-pharmaceutical products. The building housed 3 storage cells 480 m² in size, each capable of containing 330 tonnes of merchandise over a 7-m height[...]
A site manufacturing explosives was flooded following heavy rains. The products involved are not sensitive to water. A 15 hectare marshland located upstream to the site serves as an outfall for water overflowing from neighbouring lands. A 150 m³/h lift pump[...]
Located in an industrial park, a warehouse storing 1,300 tonnes of finished phytosanitary products was flooded following dike failure. The facility was operating with 8 employees and its warehousing activity spanned 3,600 m² with an average height of 7 m[...]
The RHONE river overflowed due to heavy rains and flooded a paper mill located in an industrial area. This site produced kraft paper pulp from softwood bleached with oxygen, hydrogen peroxide and chlorine dioxide also stores black liquor, fuel oil, methanol,[...]
In a chemical plant, 2 explosions occurred in a glyoxylic acid production line followed by a fire. The building in question housed a production unit for intermediate chemicals used in manufacturing antibiotics and crop protection products. The fire-fighters brought the[...]
During efforts since the previous day to locate the source of a pressure drop on the cyclohexane supply line of an olone production facility, a leak of this substance was discovered at a chemical site. The substance, used in large[...]
Gases with hydrogen sulphide (H2S) contents killed 2 employees at a plant producing algae-based natural food additives. The insoluble fractions stemming from the extraction of gelling agents with no direct usability were being treated on a porous soil (composed of[...]
At an industrial waste treatment site, fire broke out at 2 am, generating a sizeable and potentially toxic smoke cloud (presence of cyanides, cadmium, mercury, etc.). Fire-fighters, on the scene at 2:25 am, were unable to enter the facility for[...]
