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  1.  Thionyl Chloride-Water mixing
  2.  Drying Near-Misses
  3.  Ball Mill incident
  4.  Explosion in a Laboratory
  5.  Self Heating of Tablets
  6.  A temperature control incident
  7.  Release of Hydrogen Chloride
  8.  Overheating of spent catalyst
  9.  Interaction between bromine and tert-butyl methyl ether
  10.  Amine Sulphate incident
  11.  Runaway Polymerisation of Glacial Acrylic Acid
  12.  Fatal accident, due to decomposition of a diazonium salt
  13.  Prolonged distillation of 2-bromo-4-isopropylaniline
  14.  Bad practice in bottling with Lithium
  15.  Drying incident with weakly exothermic material
  16.  Near miss with Acetyl Nitrate
  17.  Thermal runaway with gas evolution
  18.  Incident from unauthorized process change
  19.  Incident during bromination, due to change of raw material grade
  20.  Near miss with bleach - acid tanker stopped discharging
  21.  Near Miss when using a automatic Dosage Unit with Caustic
  22.  Overcooling acetic mixture causes explosion on warm up
  23.  Fire on solvent drum
  24.  Chemical Incident with Peroxide Liquors
  25.  Discovery chemist makes unstable compound
  26.  Nitration reaction out of control
  27.  Distillation column melts and blocks
  28.  Corrosive material ejected from diaphragm pump
  29.  Carbon Bed Fire
  30.  Grignard stalls then runs away
  31.  Ammonia + Iodine near miss
  32.  Misidentification of Services
  33.  Unexpected solvent release during Peroxide reaction
  34.  Explosion of waste bottle
  35.  Runaway during neutralization in laboratory
  36.  Rupture of bursting disk on charge vessel
  37.  Water egress into phosphorus oxychloride reaction
  38.  Drum with waste burst
  39.  Phosgene Release
  40.  Fire in waste tank
  41.  Sodium Hydride Fire
  42.  Massive Pump Failure
  43.  Explosion in sealed flask
  44.  Exploding bomb with nitro compound
  45.  Loss of batch overnight
  46.  Non Evaluated Plant Mods
  47.  Grignard Explosion
  48.  Rust destabilizes Nitro Compound
  49.  Excessive foam from ammonium formate
  50.  Organic Peroxides - a Reminder
  51.  Near Miss from Failing Thermocouple
  52.  Failed Controller causes Incident
  53.  Ignition of Solvent vapours in Reactor
  54.  Drum Explosion due to use of Common Vent
  55.  Dangers in Venting Calorimeters
  56.  Fatal Accident from exploding waste drum
  57.  Exploding Bottle of Acetone / CO2
  58.  Too Many Alarms make others ignored
  59.  Chemical Spill from Biotage
  60.  Catalyst Fire with Lone Working
  61.  Scaled up batch reaction cause fire
  62.  Laboratory Burnt Out by small experiment
  63.  Fridge Burns out Laboratory
  64.  Runaway from incorrect charging
  65.  Air Suit causes static problems
  66.  Near miss with acrylic acid
  67.  Periodate salts decompose due to poor washing
  68.  Tank Farm Incident
  69.  Corroded Bursting Disk Failure
  70.  HF release from unexpected trimer
  71.  Supersaturated Diazonium salt causes Fatality
  72.  Minor incident made worse by maloperation
  73.  Unchecked Process/Plant change cause Incident
  74.  Common vent causes incident
  75.  Untreated peroxide mix explodes
  76.  Old Chemical Explodes
  77.  Bursting Disk Fitted wrong way up
  78.  Liquid Nitrogen Burn
  79.  Nitration Incident from solvent loss
  80.  Peroxide decomposition from vessel change
  81.  Poor PTW leads to Peroxide Decomposition
  82.  Stability of Dinitro compounds
  83.  Drum launched by waste destruction
  84.  Failed meter causes spill of sulphur dichloride
  85.  Explosive properties of HOBT
  86.  Plant changes led to fire in skip
  87.  Thermal Explosion after Mischarge of concentrated Nitric Acid
  88.  Release and Fire due to Inadvertent Polymerization of Acrylic Acid
  89.  Silicone oil flashpoint reduction
  90.  Corrosive Liquid Spill
  91.  Dust Explosion in a Hydrogenator
  92.  Rotary Evaporator exploded
  93.  Ozonolysis - Exploding flask
  94.  Pilot Plant Incident
  95.  Exploding Cylinders of Borane
  96.  Incorrect Material Used
  97.  Process Step Omitted Causes Boil up
  98.  Rapid Reaction with Picric acid
  99.  Hazards of working in the dark
  100.  Lab apparatus is not flash proof
  101.  Sodium hydride and DMF process prevented from scale up
  102.  Incorrect Thermal Testing
  103.  Lack of awareness of new chemists
  104.  Untrained chemist evaluates thermal data incorrectly
  105.  Mixed acid nitration foams out of vessel
  106.  Condenser shatter from pipe knock
  107.  Batch lost through bad design
  108.  Near Miss from Balloon Festival
  109.  Chlorine leak as pipe burns away
  110.  Loss of building due to mixed storage
  111.  Hydrogen Peroxide explodes in dosing vessel
  112.  Scald due to common waste line
  113.  Bad valve siting leads to accidental opening
  114.  Mischarging causes fire
  115.  Fire alarm ignored
  116.  Lack of Risk Assessment leads to Reaction
  117.  Carius tube broke up on removal
  118.  Scald due to common waste line
  119.  Bad valve siting leads to accidental opening
  120.  Mischarging causes fire
  121.  Personnel injured by use of hot air guns
  122.  Lack of Risk Assessment leads to Reaction
  123.  Reactor contents ejected due to unplanned reaction
  124.  Poor QA leads to near miss
  125.  Laboratory Hot Plate Fails
  126.  Multiple errors cause a runaway
  127.  Incorrect delivery prevented - TWICE
  128.  Operator error cause ejection of vessel contents
  129.  Laboratory oil bath fails
  130.  Apparatus falls apart when cleaned
  131.  Mischarging due to bad decontamination
  132.  Containers of acetic acid burst
  133.  Poor addition mode causes ejection of vessel contents
  134.  Mischarging over pressurises a vessel
  135.  Slow decomposition ruptures drum
  136.  Polymerization ruptures drum
  137.  Unexpected fire in fluid bed drier
  138.  Peroxide decomposes on ship
  139.  Incorrect Freight Sinks Ship
  140.  Peroxide decomposes in container
  141.  Reactive Chemical catches fire
  142.  Fire results from oxygen bubbles
  143.  Common Line Causes Fire
  144.  Grignard erupts from flask
  145.  Fume Cupboard Destroyed
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