Analysis of the LPG incident in San Juan Ixhuatepec, Mexico City, 19 November 1984
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This analysis of the LPG disaster of 19 November 1984 in San Juan Ixhuatepec, Mexico City has been carried out by the Department of Industrial Safety of *) TNO. Relevant activities or knowledge in relation to this analysis are: * TNO maintains an incident data base (FACTS) for analysis of incidents with hazardous material (± 15,000 at this moment). * A great deal of experience and knowledge, especially on LPG-safety, has been built up in the past few years. TNO carried out an extensive safety study of the whole "integrated" Dutch LPG-system in that period. The study has been written down in a report [1]. Its main reports are available in English. * TNO developed the so-called "Yellow book": "Calculations of the physical effects of the escape of hazardous material" [2]. * At the moment TNO is carrying out research on a (computer) model of how to act in emergency situations. The large amount of fatalities and injured people created special problems to the Mexican emergency services team. A check on reality.
TNO Identifier
270014
Publisher
TNO
Collation
132 p.
Place of publication
Apeldoorn
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