Abbott Animation are well on their way to becoming God tier animators at this point in time. And Sheldon Smith is literally the voice of the USCSB, we can never lose him. Protect him at all costs.
Yeah, the last ~2 minutes of the video was the most professional way of saying "hey assholes, we told you over 15 years ago something like this would happen, are you going to listen to us now?"
Once again... The USCSB sets the Gold Standard for high quality post accident analysis, re-construction and visualization. These presentations are so well done that even a layman can quickly understand the core safety message in a matter of seconds. Cheers from Canada!
Really goes to show that you need to do your job correctly. Like you said, the case isn't usually that all the fault falls on one person, but any one of the people involved with the failures more than likely could have prevented these accidents.
@@l0os176 complex system are almost always in failure mode, but because there are systems to handle failure, they can still mostly work, catastrophes happen when multiple failures combine in an unpredicted way.
It's about what's called hidden stories, where yes a trigger did cause the accident, but other factors made the trigger more likely, and can extend to inefficient computer control and alert systems
Correct in my experience. I'm not involved in anything near as interesting as the subject matter of most UCSB videos, but every accident, mishap, whatever can usually be traced back to multiple failed systems.
Well it's normally one error that ends up leading to multiple errors because of the first one. While we humans are very very good at trying to think of everything....we still make mistakes. It is very unfortunate but today we get to believe we will 100% be safe at work every day and we will always get to go home at night as long as we follow all the guidelines. Back in the day....companies used to predict how many employees would die before a job would be completed....it wasn't a if....it was a "well lets see how many die this time...maybe instead of 30 we can only lose 29 this time..." These freak accidents are the very few things that we don't think of or are easily overlooked. Fortunately(and unfortunately) when these accidents do occur....it further increases future generations safety at the job site. Millions have died in the past for us to be as safe as we are today.
When my plant shuts down, I stand right next to the contractors when they do their first welds. I figure if I can't feel comfortable standing right next to them, my job has not been done. I wonder if the people at this plant who said "its not my job" or "its not required by federal law" think about the fact that they might have done something to prevent this. Contractors are working in an environment they know nothing about. And several folks didnt go home to their families because people were lazy shirkers. That's a damn shame
I wonder why in murica the safety standards didn't apply for the given tank, when it clearly should have. Obviously a deadly oversight/failure by the responsible government and/or the safety agencies which provide intelligence to the responsible legislative.
whats worse is all the safety agencies rules weren't really being broken yet this still happened to create an incredibly UNSAFE working environment. almost as if having a proactive rather than reactive safety governing body is part of the actual solution to stopping avoidable tragedies like this form ever occurring again.....
@@moos5221 well it did apply to that tank, they were just followed at a less than optimal degree of effectiveness & yielded a subpar result. aka blowing up, going into low earth orbit and, causing about ten casualties in total.
@@moos5221 & it's like that all across North America, and not just in the states. I mean shit, it's like that all over the world. wherever there is industry, there are people either not properly following or just totally disregarding safety rules, regulation & protocols in the pursuit of maximum profit. it is the biggest weak point of the current capitalistic system. and yes, I know, nobody has genuine capitalism, that however is both far too technical and unrelated to be mentioned in this comment.
see what you're really doing is a true big brain play. if you stand next to them, you die with them and wont have to deal with the repercussions and or guilt from having messed up.
An unfortunately common problem with mills like this. The Fox River Valley has been dealing with this stuff, and the polluting results for almost a century now.
This wasn’t quite so easy as a single guy not doing his job. Lets also not forget about the “you can’t do that - it’s MY job” problem created by strictly divides union environments that also make people afraid to know things outside their area - creating dangerous solos of knowledge and responsibility.
RUclips rigs it with a bunch of party poppers... "The detonation occured because documentation funding was requested, but turned down in 2019. At hundreds of inches a second, The paper expanded, potentially injuring the eyes."
Have the virus you're just being a hypochondriac LOL that's the way he always sounds and like somebody said this is no video I just never seen this one before sorry for the people who lost their life
The animation on these just keeps getting better and better! The focus shift at 6:24 is one of those nice touches that didn’t NEED to be there, but just made the illustration of the story that much more effective. Great job
Ah cool, this is basically the final draft report on that one incident where the guy was welding and the tank fucked off into low earth orbit. These videos are incredibly well done, informative, and an excellent way to bring awareness to the hard, and absolutely necessary work done by the CSB. I know the job isn't flashy, TV dramas don't have CSB people as main characters like they do with FBI, NCIS, etc. But this work is every bit as important. Even a single life saved is an absolutely amazing accomplishment and the people at the CSB are deserving of just as many accolades as their flashier more well known counterparts. Thanks for all the great work!
Tbh I'd watch a show where they investigate instances where *buildings can go flying,* that's much more exciting than whatever new "csi ___" is coming out now
The good thing about these videos is that their lessons can often be extended to apply to many other industries. It's tragic that people have to die for these lessons, and I'm sure it's immensely frustrating for OSHA and CSB employees that folks won't listen, but these videos are a huge help.
Ahh, the mystery of that forgotten and unknown tank, or the tank you know is there but nobody, including the company is concerned about, or even understands. I worked in the steel industry for 40 years, and I've know of at least a couple of such a system.
This is common, and usually decided by a risk analysis. Early on they said the content was mostly water, and the flammable gas would be minimal if operated according to their design. This would make the tank a low risk system and therefore not worthy of increased monitoring. The problem was introduced when changes to their procedures were not controlled, ie no one purged the turpentine. This doesnt seem like a design problem to me, it seems more like a change control issue...
@@KeissRandomKeissenor rather than change control, simply verifying procedures? Perhaps you are saying the same thing in different words. Regardless, FMEA should have shown that procedural deviations could expose workers to increased hazards. A simple mitigation would be to verify purging (or another name for getting rid of the excess turpentine) procedures had been followed prior to issuing hot work permits. I agree it's not an engineering design issue, but some of these procedures could be redesigned for increased documentation and verification before hot work/other hazardous activities. If it is low risk only when x activity happens, then x activity must be monitored and verified.
From 3:54 "because there was a confusion as which department at the mill was responsible for the operation..." I can already imagine dispute emails among employees and dept managers after incident. "It is their job. They supposed to open the valve" "No that is not true, it is their job not ours" Well, this kind of bureaucratic friction things happen in any company in any nations. But come on, any company deal with "flammable hydrocarbons" should make sure about R&R of every person for even every tiny details, otherwise some people will be killed like this incident.
I've seen this first hand. And just as you say "any company dealing with flamable hydrocarbons should make sure about R&R of every person" ... the big-wigs at that company are arguing, "It's not my job to make sure know's their responsibility! That other manager is supposed to ensure everyone knows their role."
@@Algebrodadio Yeah, I know what you are talking about, and it is kinda sad. Sometimes this kinda incidents are also involved with toxic power game among managers or teams... Very sad.
@@MrSupasonics training and equipment boundaries were obviously lacking which to me indicates a workplace where they were flying by the seat of their pants. Not to mention the top of the tank could have been shielded with fire blanket as part of the work permit and absolutely there should have been a nitrogen blanket on the tank as part of the design. In my experience working operating crews for 20 years there are a few people out there who's work needs to be checked constantly and that causes incidents and puts extra stress on other workers but in my opinion 90% of workplace incidents come down to management not spending the money on training or listening to operators when they try to address an issue or pushing to get the job done... Why wasn't the tank drained and purged? Easy , it would have taken time and time is money.
@@snakeylanes4804 No fire blanket or spark containment is very surprising here. I guess standards are different everywhere (coming from an operator in Ontario), but that amazed me.
These videos remind me of the old "Seconds to disaster" series. I look forward to every animation and report from the CSB, and I recognize how strange that sentiment can be when the rest of the US government seems to be disconnected from citizens. I swear, if I could get a job with the CSB I would be happy to work on these investigations.
If theres one job I definitely dont want, it's being a contract welder doing hot work on a plants pipes... Those workers like many other events perished at the mercy of lazy management teams on higher wages than them, mainly all for silly avoidable reasons
These videos show a negativity bias, because they are only supposed to show when things go wrong. Which is not to say the videos are not very helpful, and that hot work is not dangerous. I just don't want people to be biased into thinking that all hot work is going to create explosions, or something.
@@LeafseasonMagbag Workers in general and specially welders should be taught to be wary of possible combustible presence in their surroundings. If that is not considered ANY hot work could cause and explosion.
@@LeafseasonMagbag Yes, but these videos demonstrate the fact these story's are highly under reported in terms of how mismanaged things were in places where it could of easily been fixed. The same with the rules in place and how lives could of been saved if slight changes and enforcement were made. Things like these should make fundamental changes in the industry and with the rule books, but its rarely enforced or resolved. Which is why as much as the majority of welders doing contract work get along fine, they shouldnt ever once consider the idea something could blow up due to negligence and mis communication. Sort of like in the aviation industry, it's only highly regulated there because of civilian liability, which then trickles down to worker safety aswell. It should be here for these industrys but it's not, especially for the low class workers.
@@LeafseasonMagbag Yes; learning about welding by watching USCSB videos is like learning about drinking by hanging out in AA meetings. Not false, but obviously biased towards bad outcomes.
Thanks for another great investigation summary. As a Canadian engineer, I appreciate the opportunity to learn from these investigations. I sincerely hope Americans push their representatives for additional, and continuing funding for the CSB. The service they provide is invaluable, and saves lives in industry everyday.
Thank you for the public service you provide by creating these videos, this is one of the things I am happy that my taxes pay for. Even though I do not work in an industry where equipment failures could result in direct human harm, I believe in creating and following comprehensive safety/disaster recovery procedures, although never blindly.
The detail in these videos is excellent. The CSB is doing a great service by educating people about the improvements that can be made in process safety management.
1. This channel is absolutely essential and should never be defunded 2. These scenarios are always super sad because people lose their lives 3. I had no idea making pulp was this incredibly complex. I thought you just grounded up wood. 🤷🏾♂️
Man I had the opportunity to go into paper mills during a previous jobs. They're huge, I'm pretty sure some of the ones I went to covered more square footage than my college campus. So much machinery, so many people, so many giant tanks like the one that blew up in this video. It's incredibly fascinating but also a little unnerving.
There is already a lawsuit by an employee, the employee stated that the company made cheap repairs to the pipes that were leaking, but they kept leaking and were never properly repaired.
This channel is doing extraordinarily amazing work! It is giving people who lost relatives in those accidents an understanding of what happened as well as educating the public and thus the workers in the facilities on why it is absolutely crucial to follow instructions and guidelines.
As just an ordinary member of the public in the UK I must say all the CSB videos are fantastic. It’s very sad that for each video people have died but I feel like with each video I learn a lot and just one day that might save my or someone else’s life. Let’s hope you have less source material moving forward.
I think it's a morbid curiosity. Like I really like nuclear weapons test films. Or Chernobyl, Fukushima; Bhopal disaster films. But I don't know the psychology of why some people like this stuff. It's a good question.
@@vonschweringen8321 it's not "morbid"curiosity on my end. I'm far more interested in what happened before the kaboom moment than after. However I LOVE learning about Chernobyl
As someone who has never and most likely will never even set foot in a chemical processing facility, I can safely say that this information is crucial xD I don't know why I love these videos but theyre class. Great animation and voice.
I love that over the years, the 3d animations on this channel have improved. People should stop taking assumptions and neglecting safety and everything would be fine.
I recommend to connect an inert gas (preferably N2 gas) instead of air to the vacuum pilot valve. Also during the hot work, the operation team should have applied welding fire blankets around the welding area since it contains flammable materials.
A new CSB video! My crops have instantly been rotated and prepared for spring planting. The animators are only getting better and better, and I hope the narrator is doing well, his voice is a little rough in this video. Ge the man some thyme pastilles!
Please issue more frequent videos if you can! These are so enlightening and well done! Your work doesn't go unnoticed! The work of the CSB is crucial to our safety as a nation, keep it up!
Great effort on each animation CSB published. As an engineer, I learn and enjoy watching these - of course, sorry for the victims. Thank you for all this great effort!
This almost happened at a type of paper mill facility that was in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. It ignored, and then came as close as it possibly can to leveling the entire complex. For some entirely unknown reason it almost self extinguished itself.
@@charadremur333 Welcome to the LLL - the Life-Long Learner Club! Proudly addicted to cramming as much new information into our brains as it can possible handle!! 👌🤓💭
For a few years I worked on standards related on electrical equipment maintenance. These videos inspire me to always do my best on those technical committees to make these standards enforceable by means of clear language.
Yeah, they weren't as blatantly ignorant in this incident. Others (like Iron in the Fire) are so blatantly and infuriatingly negligent that many are openly critical of the companies. But this one...? They just... didn't consider it. Should they have? Yes. Did they know they should have? Maybe, maybe not. And that's where the accountability hinges. If they knew, then it was negligence. If they didn't, it was ignorance.
I wish we had a SCSB in Sweden that made such thorough investigations and that they were made public in this good way. If an accident happens here, you might read about it in the news, there might be an investigation but the findings in most cases (if it's not a very large accident) stays within the affected company and are not made public for others to learn from.
I worked in a chemical plant that used flammable liquids to make additives. I was a production liaison with the PSM committee. You would be amazed at the disconnect between engineers/management and workers. My job was to see show the management/process writers how the job was actually done and at times show them the way they wrote it(looks good on paper) was not always the best practice for our particular plant. Got a couple of good catches in my time there and helped make improvements for my fellow workers. It really is something that people who have never worked in a plant, been on the floor, tell us the best way to do our jobs.
The problem is stated at the beginning: Why didn’t they apply the correct procedure voluntarily? Why should they if it costs money and they are beholden only to their shareholders?
I just started with a way older video. Really no animation, grainy voiceover, etc. good videos, and with good structure but older in quality. However, as I watch, I see each getting better and better in all ways. Now here, this animation is amazing. The videos are just..flawless now.
I think that even with an engineering safety evaluation it would have been hard to recognize this combination of conditions that led to this accident. It's one helluva lesson in what can go wrong,
I've been a power engineer and a bleach and chemical plant operator for Domtar here in BC, Canada, for 20 years and we have to ventilate all tanks on shutdown and any tanks that are isolated have to be drained and ventilated. I remember the safety briefing coming out about this. It was probably neglected because they weren't going in the vessel, but that tank should have been drained and locked out if it was offline. Sour condensate and NCG's don't do well sitting in a stagnant tank
As a contract worker in the science fields(I say science Fields because the company I work for contracts out to everything from medical science to computer chip developers) they really do give us some of the most wild task ever with no training and just expect us to know how to do it. on my first day out of medical facility the auto clave was running three hours slower than normal they asked me to take a look and see if anything looks off... I have never done maintenance in my life
Mr. Safer the CSB has no enforcement power. That responsibility goes to goes OSHA and other bodies. This prevents witch hunts and bias from ruling the investigation process. Think of NTSB verses DOT.
For being educational safety videos that are kinda dry these videos are oddly entertaining. If every safety video was done like this mote people would actually watch their company's lock-out tag-out videos. Very well done.
Maybe they shouldn't have cut that huge viewing window into the side of the foul condensate tank. It's neat and all but it can't be too sound structurally...
Abbott Animation are well on their way to becoming God tier animators at this point in time.
And Sheldon Smith is literally the voice of the USCSB, we can never lose him. Protect him at all costs.
The animators get a a lot of practice
@Joe Bauers haha I'm sure USCSB would put out a video on it but who would make it?
@@david-stephenmyles9539 the intern Pete could do up a quick flip book.
@Joe Bauers I want the USCSB to do an investigation of the KyoAni fire
Yes, save his voice now to use when time goes by..! And the animators could do their own game of safety. Gta or sims style.
I live for when they reference old safety recommendations from before the tragedy took place. It's a professional "I told you so" and is very spicy.
Yeah, the last ~2 minutes of the video was the most professional way of saying "hey assholes, we told you over 15 years ago something like this would happen, are you going to listen to us now?"
Yaaaas!
Y'know, sometimes I feel like the USCSB needs an anger translator. For those... ahem... 'stubborn' plant owners?
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@@hauntedshadowslegacy2826 enforcement wing
Once again... The USCSB sets the Gold Standard for high quality post accident analysis, re-construction and visualization.
These presentations are so well done that even a layman can quickly understand the core safety message in a matter of seconds. Cheers from Canada!
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I ain’t even in this profession, safety is safety and I like the animation and narrator.
Love these, it just shows that problems are usually a series of multiple failures and lax practices. Not just one person.
Really goes to show that you need to do your job correctly. Like you said, the case isn't usually that all the fault falls on one person, but any one of the people involved with the failures more than likely could have prevented these accidents.
@@l0os176 complex system are almost always in failure mode, but because there are systems to handle failure, they can still mostly work, catastrophes happen when multiple failures combine in an unpredicted way.
It's about what's called hidden stories, where yes a trigger did cause the accident, but other factors made the trigger more likely, and can extend to inefficient computer control and alert systems
Correct in my experience. I'm not involved in anything near as interesting as the subject matter of most UCSB videos, but every accident, mishap, whatever can usually be traced back to multiple failed systems.
Well it's normally one error that ends up leading to multiple errors because of the first one. While we humans are very very good at trying to think of everything....we still make mistakes. It is very unfortunate but today we get to believe we will 100% be safe at work every day and we will always get to go home at night as long as we follow all the guidelines. Back in the day....companies used to predict how many employees would die before a job would be completed....it wasn't a if....it was a "well lets see how many die this time...maybe instead of 30 we can only lose 29 this time..."
These freak accidents are the very few things that we don't think of or are easily overlooked. Fortunately(and unfortunately) when these accidents do occur....it further increases future generations safety at the job site. Millions have died in the past for us to be as safe as we are today.
The polish and effort put into these videos has only improved with each one!
I initially thought you said Polish (Poland)
@@homefront3162 The Polish are amazing 😀
I got your polish right cheer buddy.
Sometimes I polish my pollish.
You notice too,new tech is not 20 years anymore
New software so many waiting an received
Sim airplane simulator
CSB Safety Videos clear my skin and regulate my digestion.
When the CSB posts, suddenly the air smells fresher. Grass looks greener. I hear birds chirping. The sun comes out and I bask in the warmth.
Csb vids naturally align my chakra through the vibration of the explosions. Namaste
CSB videos cured my cancer and my male pattern baldness.
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Tank: Flies 100 feet in the air
Narrator: CSB "Launched" an investigation
It wouldn't be the first time they did that.
I'd imagine these people have pretty thankless jobs, so they got jokes
Meme citation needed.
Secret Tesla Spacex Plant
Hahahahhahahhahahahahhahahahahha
thought about a childhood moment shooting paper footballs between finger goals.
When my plant shuts down, I stand right next to the contractors when they do their first welds. I figure if I can't feel comfortable standing right next to them, my job has not been done. I wonder if the people at this plant who said "its not my job" or "its not required by federal law" think about the fact that they might have done something to prevent this. Contractors are working in an environment they know nothing about. And several folks didnt go home to their families because people were lazy shirkers. That's a damn shame
I wonder why in murica the safety standards didn't apply for the given tank, when it clearly should have. Obviously a deadly oversight/failure by the responsible government and/or the safety agencies which provide intelligence to the responsible legislative.
whats worse is all the safety agencies rules weren't really being broken yet this still happened to create an incredibly UNSAFE working environment. almost as if having a proactive rather than reactive safety governing body is part of the actual solution to stopping avoidable tragedies like this form ever occurring again.....
@@moos5221 well it did apply to that tank, they were just followed at a less than optimal degree of effectiveness & yielded a subpar result. aka blowing up, going into low earth orbit and, causing about ten casualties in total.
@@moos5221 & it's like that all across North America, and not just in the states. I mean shit, it's like that all over the world. wherever there is industry, there are people either not properly following or just totally disregarding safety rules, regulation & protocols in the pursuit of maximum profit.
it is the biggest weak point of the current capitalistic system.
and yes, I know, nobody has genuine capitalism, that however is both far too technical and unrelated to be mentioned in this comment.
see what you're really doing is a true big brain play. if you stand next to them, you die with them and wont have to deal with the repercussions and or guilt from having messed up.
the "not my job" problem again
An unfortunately common problem with mills like this. The Fox River Valley has been dealing with this stuff, and the polluting results for almost a century now.
This wasn’t quite so easy as a single guy not doing his job.
Lets also not forget about the “you can’t do that - it’s MY job” problem created by strictly divides union environments that also make people afraid to know things outside their area - creating dangerous solos of knowledge and responsibility.
Safety is everybodies job
More of a, no one knows who job it is. Then it becomes not my problem.
Which can be easily solved by upper management stepping in and just making a decision. 3 innocent people were killed by office politics.
We need to see this channel unbox a silver play button (with safety precautions).
RUclips rigs it with a bunch of party poppers...
"The detonation occured because documentation funding was requested, but turned down in 2019. At hundreds of inches a second, The paper expanded, potentially injuring the eyes."
Hope the voiceover guy is okay, he sounds a bit more hoarse than previous vids...
This is a old vid just re uploaded
Parts of this video are from an earlier video, but more information has been added from the investigation.
JHlc alright that makes sense I thought it was a little different but I definitely recognized it
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Have the virus you're just being a hypochondriac LOL that's the way he always sounds and like somebody said this is no video I just never seen this one before sorry for the people who lost their life
Can we appreciate how the tank missed the buildings but hit the connecting catwalk perfectly.
It was the hidden engineering behind location of the tank supports :P Marvel only to be seen in its parting moments.
This was a planned explosion the tank is a paid actor.
intentional design
Feild goal , was goode : 3 points!
The animation on these just keeps getting better and better! The focus shift at 6:24 is one of those nice touches that didn’t NEED to be there, but just made the illustration of the story that much more effective. Great job
Ah cool, this is basically the final draft report on that one incident where the guy was welding and the tank fucked off into low earth orbit. These videos are incredibly well done, informative, and an excellent way to bring awareness to the hard, and absolutely necessary work done by the CSB. I know the job isn't flashy, TV dramas don't have CSB people as main characters like they do with FBI, NCIS, etc. But this work is every bit as important. Even a single life saved is an absolutely amazing accomplishment and the people at the CSB are deserving of just as many accolades as their flashier more well known counterparts. Thanks for all the great work!
Tbh I'd watch a show where they investigate instances where *buildings can go flying,* that's much more exciting than whatever new "csi ___" is coming out now
The good thing about these videos is that their lessons can often be extended to apply to many other industries. It's tragic that people have to die for these lessons, and I'm sure it's immensely frustrating for OSHA and CSB employees that folks won't listen, but these videos are a huge help.
Ahh, the mystery of that forgotten and unknown tank, or the tank you know is there but nobody, including the company is concerned about, or even understands. I worked in the steel industry for 40 years, and I've know of at least a couple of such a system.
"Let's all meet by the mystery tank"
Interesting experience. Would be willing to share some more about your time in the steel mill?
'Hey Tom how about we use our safety procedures with just some of our plant?' 'Sounds like a great idea Bob!'
This is common, and usually decided by a risk analysis. Early on they said the content was mostly water, and the flammable gas would be minimal if operated according to their design. This would make the tank a low risk system and therefore not worthy of increased monitoring. The problem was introduced when changes to their procedures were not controlled, ie no one purged the turpentine. This doesnt seem like a design problem to me, it seems more like a change control issue...
@@KeissRandomKeissenor rather than change control, simply verifying procedures? Perhaps you are saying the same thing in different words.
Regardless, FMEA should have shown that procedural deviations could expose workers to increased hazards. A simple mitigation would be to verify purging (or another name for getting rid of the excess turpentine) procedures had been followed prior to issuing hot work permits. I agree it's not an engineering design issue, but some of these procedures could be redesigned for increased documentation and verification before hot work/other hazardous activities.
If it is low risk only when x activity happens, then x activity must be monitored and verified.
Literally what I'm dealing with right now....
From 3:54 "because there was a confusion as which department at the mill was responsible for the operation..."
I can already imagine dispute emails among employees and dept managers after incident. "It is their job. They supposed to open the valve" "No that is not true, it is their job not ours"
Well, this kind of bureaucratic friction things happen in any company in any nations. But come on, any company deal with "flammable hydrocarbons" should make sure about R&R of every person for even every tiny details, otherwise some people will be killed like this incident.
I've seen this first hand. And just as you say "any company dealing with flamable hydrocarbons should make sure about R&R of every person" ... the big-wigs at that company are arguing, "It's not my job to make sure know's their responsibility! That other manager is supposed to ensure everyone knows their role."
@@Algebrodadio Yeah, I know what you are talking about, and it is kinda sad. Sometimes this kinda incidents are also involved with toxic power game among managers or teams... Very sad.
That or "it's not in my job description".
@@MrSupasonics training and equipment boundaries were obviously lacking which to me indicates a workplace where they were flying by the seat of their pants. Not to mention the top of the tank could have been shielded with fire blanket as part of the work permit and absolutely there should have been a nitrogen blanket on the tank as part of the design. In my experience working operating crews for 20 years there are a few people out there who's work needs to be checked constantly and that causes incidents and puts extra stress on other workers but in my opinion 90% of workplace incidents come down to management not spending the money on training or listening to operators when they try to address an issue or pushing to get the job done... Why wasn't the tank drained and purged? Easy , it would have taken time and time is money.
@@snakeylanes4804 No fire blanket or spark containment is very surprising here. I guess standards are different everywhere (coming from an operator in Ontario), but that amazed me.
These videos remind me of the old "Seconds to disaster" series. I look forward to every animation and report from the CSB, and I recognize how strange that sentiment can be when the rest of the US government seems to be disconnected from citizens.
I swear, if I could get a job with the CSB I would be happy to work on these investigations.
These guys also get right to the point unlike Seconds to Disaster
You just nailed it why I liked this so much! I wasn't able to exactly put my finger on it.
@@forceawakens4449 I mean, "Seconds to disaster" wad a TV show and had to make the cases long enough to fit in the programation
@@douglasnorona6895 true, but they could have gone more in depth instead of having tons of useless filler
@@forceawakens4449 Hours and Commericals to Disaster
If theres one job I definitely dont want, it's being a contract welder doing hot work on a plants pipes...
Those workers like many other events perished at the mercy of lazy management teams on higher wages than them, mainly all for silly avoidable reasons
These videos show a negativity bias, because they are only supposed to show when things go wrong.
Which is not to say the videos are not very helpful, and that hot work is not dangerous.
I just don't want people to be biased into thinking that all hot work is going to create explosions, or something.
@@LeafseasonMagbag Workers in general and specially welders should be taught to be wary of possible combustible presence in their surroundings. If that is not considered ANY hot work could cause and explosion.
@@LeafseasonMagbag Yes, but these videos demonstrate the fact these story's are highly under reported in terms of how mismanaged things were in places where it could of easily been fixed. The same with the rules in place and how lives could of been saved if slight changes and enforcement were made.
Things like these should make fundamental changes in the industry and with the rule books, but its rarely enforced or resolved. Which is why as much as the majority of welders doing contract work get along fine, they shouldnt ever once consider the idea something could blow up due to negligence and mis communication.
Sort of like in the aviation industry, it's only highly regulated there because of civilian liability, which then trickles down to worker safety aswell. It should be here for these industrys but it's not, especially for the low class workers.
@@LeafseasonMagbag
Yes; learning about welding by watching USCSB videos is like learning about drinking by hanging out in AA meetings. Not false, but obviously biased towards bad outcomes.
@@bcubed72 Utter nonsense! Your approach is part of the problem with low safety standards rather than the solution raising standards
Thanks for another great investigation summary. As a Canadian engineer, I appreciate the opportunity to learn from these investigations. I sincerely hope Americans push their representatives for additional, and continuing funding for the CSB. The service they provide is invaluable, and saves lives in industry everyday.
Thank you for the public service you provide by creating these videos, this is one of the things I am happy that my taxes pay for. Even though I do not work in an industry where equipment failures could result in direct human harm, I believe in creating and following comprehensive safety/disaster recovery procedures, although never blindly.
If you don't think you work near dangerous chemicals or equipment then you aren't very observant, they're almost everywhere now
The texturing work on a lot of this is honestly beautiful. These guys could run a class on animation for whatever price they want tbh
The detail in these videos is excellent. The CSB is doing a great service by educating people about the improvements that can be made in process safety management.
This informative stuff is always appreciated among the usual mess youtube gets uploaded with.
I'm happy my tax dollars go towards this. Such a great program. Keep up the great work CSB!
1. This channel is absolutely essential and should never be defunded
2. These scenarios are always super sad because people lose their lives
3. I had no idea making pulp was this incredibly complex. I thought you just grounded up wood. 🤷🏾♂️
Man I had the opportunity to go into paper mills during a previous jobs. They're huge, I'm pretty sure some of the ones I went to covered more square footage than my college campus. So much machinery, so many people, so many giant tanks like the one that blew up in this video. It's incredibly fascinating but also a little unnerving.
Can't wait for you guys to release the video on the Houston watson grinder explosion
There is already a lawsuit by an employee, the employee stated that the company made cheap repairs to the pipes that were leaking, but they kept leaking and were never properly repaired.
Holy shit dude. I had seen the initial news pop up on my phone, but I haven't looked into it until now. Jesus christ...
These videos are like a treasure every time they show up!
This channel is doing extraordinarily amazing work! It is giving people who lost relatives in those accidents an understanding of what happened as well as educating the public and thus the workers in the facilities on why it is absolutely crucial to follow instructions and guidelines.
USCSB's game is TIGHT!! I wish all of our government agencies could communicate on this level!
As just an ordinary member of the public in the UK I must say all the CSB videos are fantastic. It’s very sad that for each video people have died but I feel like with each video I learn a lot and just one day that might save my or someone else’s life. Let’s hope you have less source material moving forward.
I'm so glad they are still making these videos. They are so well made and very interesting.
If Trump had his way they'd be dead.
Why do I find it so exciting to see one of these videos? 😂
Greg S ikr 😂 stay safe!
I think it's a morbid curiosity. Like I really like nuclear weapons test films. Or Chernobyl, Fukushima; Bhopal disaster films. But I don't know the psychology of why some people like this stuff. It's a good question.
Same. Lol
Jason Swearingen humans are known to have a natural morbid curiosity
@@vonschweringen8321 it's not "morbid"curiosity on my end. I'm far more interested in what happened before the kaboom moment than after. However I LOVE learning about Chernobyl
As someone who has never and most likely will never even set foot in a chemical processing facility, I can safely say that this information is crucial xD I don't know why I love these videos but theyre class. Great animation and voice.
this is like SCIENCE CSI
SO interesting, needless to say the animations are BEAUTIFUL
such an engaging series
Take a shot every time they say "Foul condensate Tank"
Or "hot work"
...then go to work drunk at your job of industrial plant safety engineer and end up in one of these videos, right?
Literally said it as I read this comment
@@samneal7679 no fun allowed, no jokes allowed on the internet
Do that and your stomach will become a foul condensate tank lol.
I love that over the years, the 3d animations on this channel have improved. People should stop taking assumptions and neglecting safety and everything would be fine.
Not everything…we wouldn’t get these wonderfully informative and beautiful videos!
@@WhiteHatMatt right right more people should blow stuff up
These videos cure my depression. They remind me so much of those 90s industrial training videos.
Has my life really came to this point? Where I get excited for videos from the USCSB?
Respect to the Animators and Narrator. Good Job guys.
Big smile when I got that notification. Why do I enjoy these so much?
Am I a bad person for being super excited whenever a new episode comes out. 😬
Nope
Literally the uscsb creates some of the best videos and their speakers voice is so nice. Keep up the good work.
OMG RON, YOU LIKE THESE VIDEOS?
Spider_ Hand55 I was never here
These animations are very well done. And so is the editing, narration.. wow. Thank you for making this available, americans ought to be proud of you.
I recommend to connect an inert gas (preferably N2 gas) instead of air to the vacuum pilot valve.
Also during the hot work, the operation team should have applied welding fire blankets around the welding area since it contains flammable materials.
This channel is like Seconds Before Disaster but gets to the point without the excessive recaps
Outstanding clarity and cadence. Useful information that saves lives. The CSB should have funding secured.
A new CSB video! My crops have instantly been rotated and prepared for spring planting. The animators are only getting better and better, and I hope the narrator is doing well, his voice is a little rough in this video. Ge the man some thyme pastilles!
Who else loves it when you check RUclips and you see a new video from CSB 😍
Please issue more frequent videos if you can! These are so enlightening and well done! Your work doesn't go unnoticed! The work of the CSB is crucial to our safety as a nation, keep it up!
bit late to improve safety? they cant even get iosh to change the procedures
I'm gonna watch it before the bed and analyze every bit so I/others don't make similar mistakes
CSB SQUAD ROLL OUT
Check !
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It’s crazy how excited I get seeing a Notification for this channel!!!!! You know it’s gonna be some meaty content!
Mike Gaskin Lol, yes sir, we’re all here again
@@Syclone0044 I was just thinking about that lol. "Oh yay, a UCSB video I didn't watch! Oh, someone probably died."
These videos are so good. One of my favorite channels. Very educational and entertaining as well.
Man the animations have improved so much over the years love it.
Great effort on each animation CSB published. As an engineer, I learn and enjoy watching these - of course, sorry for the victims. Thank you for all this great effort!
Yesss! Another episode! I mean, uhh, condolences and all but also, another Episode!!!
I can't believe the quality of the animations. So good! And the content too!
This almost happened at a type of paper mill facility that was in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. It ignored, and then came as close as it possibly can to leveling the entire complex. For some entirely unknown reason it almost self extinguished itself.
I thought I've seen this one before
it's a longer version of the video they uploaded in 2018. Not sure why they redid it
I guess that was the preliminary report.
@@mageklok older version just described the incident. This is them including their safety recommendations and other analysis
@@LeafseasonMagbag thanks dawgie, at least I know I'm not going crazy
No no that one had the tank fly across the river
Always excited about new industrial disasters! Wait that came out wrong
I think you speak for a lot of us here... (for me, I for one tell myself that I like these videos for the same reason I like Sherlock Homes)
I love these as i learn, damn learning is a hell of an addictive drug. I am addicted, to the drug of learning. Damn it.
@@charadremur333 Welcome to the LLL - the Life-Long Learner Club! Proudly addicted to cramming as much new information into our brains as it can possible handle!! 👌🤓💭
For a few years I worked on standards related on electrical equipment maintenance. These videos inspire me to always do my best on those technical committees to make these standards enforceable by means of clear language.
Thank you csb for these case study... It really helped me to give a greater awareness and care in my working culture as I am a chemical engineer .
Honestly I never would have thought of this either. Its hard to hold the company accountable - they definitely tried to do the work safely.
Yeah, they weren't as blatantly ignorant in this incident. Others (like Iron in the Fire) are so blatantly and infuriatingly negligent that many are openly critical of the companies. But this one...? They just... didn't consider it. Should they have? Yes. Did they know they should have? Maybe, maybe not. And that's where the accountability hinges. If they knew, then it was negligence. If they didn't, it was ignorance.
These videos are very educational and shows how things can go wrong. Great work! 👍
The graphics and sound in this video is extremely satisfying.
I have no clue how I ended up watching workplace safety videos at 4 AM. What a strange rabbit hole
nevermind guys, this is just a re-upload with better animations of an old video :(
Dang.
Never have I ever clicked on a video so fast just to be heartbroken.
It's not a re-upload. This includes final report updates, remedies, and additional information not listed in the original video.
"never mind"? what? this has a ton of new content and way sharper animations. I'd watch it even without the new content.
@@BrainScramblies Someone was very proud of the bit with the valve. "Look at this amazing oxidised galvanized valve!"
The animation, the narration, the quality... We don't deserve this
I wish we had a SCSB in Sweden that made such thorough investigations and that they were made public in this good way. If an accident happens here, you might read about it in the news, there might be an investigation but the findings in most cases (if it's not a very large accident) stays within the affected company and are not made public for others to learn from.
I can’t get enough of these videos.
This videos are very well made, entertaining and informativ. I am from Germany and I wish that our authorities would do a similar job.
I don't know why this was in my suggested but I'm glad it was. Fascinating!
I worked in a chemical plant that used flammable liquids to make additives. I was a production liaison with the PSM committee. You would be amazed at the disconnect between engineers/management and workers. My job was to see show the management/process writers how the job was actually done and at times show them the way they wrote it(looks good on paper) was not always the best practice for our particular plant. Got a couple of good catches in my time there and helped make improvements for my fellow workers. It really is something that people who have never worked in a plant, been on the floor, tell us the best way to do our jobs.
was it in the US?
The problem is stated at the beginning: Why didn’t they apply the correct procedure voluntarily? Why should they if it costs money and they are beholden only to their shareholders?
I'm at 0:30 and it looks like hot work over a pressure vessel strikes again.
Bro how'd you know?
Yup
DING DING DING we have a winner!!! Something tells me this isn't your first USCSB video
I wonder if they'll cover the warehouse explosion in Houston.
Anytime now that there is an industrial accident I hope that it ends up becoming a USCSB video.
These animations must be so time consuming to make
There's a lot of intricate modeling.
@@MRFLAPPYTREE i need models with the extension .ase, can you help?
I just started with a way older video. Really no animation, grainy voiceover, etc. good videos, and with good structure but older in quality. However, as I watch, I see each getting better and better in all ways. Now here, this animation is amazing. The videos are just..flawless now.
‘flammable hydrocarbons’
@@brow4840 I think nitrous oxide is. Or propane and ethanol maybe?
@@vonschweringen8321 not an expert but both ethanol & propane are extremely flammable (in b4 r/whoosh)
@@brow4840 You mean non-flammable? Inflammable means highly likely to catch fire, without even the need for an ignition source.
@TheBrodsterBoy thank you for clarifying
"not enough oxygen to create an explosion"
I think that even with an engineering safety evaluation it would have been hard to recognize this combination of conditions that led to this accident. It's one helluva lesson in what can go wrong,
welcome back everyone
I‘m basically a chemistry expert after watching these videos
"Flammable hydrocarbons"
Or a production worker at a pulp mill lol
I've been a power engineer and a bleach and chemical plant operator for Domtar here in BC, Canada, for 20 years and we have to ventilate all tanks on shutdown and any tanks that are isolated have to be drained and ventilated. I remember the safety briefing coming out about this. It was probably neglected because they weren't going in the vessel, but that tank should have been drained and locked out if it was offline. Sour condensate and NCG's don't do well sitting in a stagnant tank
As a contract worker in the science fields(I say science Fields because the company I work for contracts out to everything from medical science to computer chip developers) they really do give us some of the most wild task ever with no training and just expect us to know how to do it. on my first day out of medical facility the auto clave was running three hours slower than normal they asked me to take a look and see if anything looks off... I have never done maintenance in my life
Thank you, USCSB!
I feel safer living my life having binged watched CSB videos.
CSB analysis saves lives.
im just here for the animations, and they dont disappoint
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Thank you very much for this huge amount of information.
Best Regard
Recommendations are none binding, they are like smiling and winking at the serial killer to promise not murder again.
Mr. Safer the CSB has no enforcement power. That responsibility goes to goes OSHA and other bodies. This prevents witch hunts and bias from ruling the investigation process. Think of NTSB verses DOT.
For being educational safety videos that are kinda dry these videos are oddly entertaining. If every safety video was done like this mote people would actually watch their company's lock-out tag-out videos. Very well done.
I hope the next CSB investigation goes to the Androscoggin Paper Mill Explosion in Jay that just occurred in Maine...
Maybe they shouldn't have cut that huge viewing window into the side of the foul condensate tank. It's neat and all but it can't be too sound structurally...
Companies dont want to be 100% safe. Thats why this channel can make accident videos for 15 years plus.
I work at a fast food joint who uses a pressure fryer with a broken gauge. I've been telling them for 7 months to replace it. How do I report?
Sounds like an OSHA thing. But i'm not american so i don't know. Google it :)
@@mfbfreak makes some level of sense. I just asked here first since oil and steam explosions seem to be a uscsb staple.
I am binge watching all of these! you made them so good! wow
Hey in case y’all didn’t know, we should support government regulation of any and all hazardous chemical operations.
I am always waiting for this informative videos! Thanks a lot.