On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at TMS 2012 at the
Dolphin Resort - Northern A4 this paper will be presented.
Abstract
On April 20, 2010, an explosion rocked
the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico. Resulting in the deaths of 11
workers. Over 400,000 pages of evidence were collected during the investigation
for the root cause of the explosion[5].
"What emerges is stark and
singular fact: crew members died and suffered terrible injuries because every
one of the Horizon's defenses failed on April 20. Some were deployed but did
not work. Some were activated too late, after they had almost certainly been
damaged by fire or explosions. Some were never deployed at all.[1]"
Parallels with the aluminium
industry standout when comparing the Deepwater Horizon disaster (e.g., violent explosions, damaged equipment,
worker deaths and worker injuries). The list of aluminium industry
catastrophes is not short: Binzhou Weiqiao
Aluminum (Photo2), Reynolds Alabama, Alcan France, etc.
Aluminium plants,
just as deepwater oil rigs, value training and safety measures to prevent
accidents from occurring. But, on April 20, 2010 every safety measure employed
failed, could the safety measures employed in a casthouse to prevent a molten
metal steam explosion fail too?
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