National Transportation Safety Board Hazardous Materials Accident Report: Fire211 and Explosion of Highway Cargo Tanks, Stock Island, Key West, Florida, June 29, 211 1998

摘要

About 5:14 a.m., eastern daylight time, on June 29, 1998, at Stock Island, Key211u001eWest, Florida, a Dion Oil Company (Dion) driver was on top of a straight-truck 211u001ecargo tank when explosive vapors ignited within the straight-truck cargo tank. 211u001eThe ignition caused an explosion that threw the driver from the top of the truck. 211u001eThe fire and a series of at least three explosions injured the driver and 211u001edestroyed the straight truck, a tractor, the front of the semitrailer, and a 211u001esecond nearby straight-truck cargo tank. Damage was estimated at more than 211u001e$185,000. The safety issues discussed in this report are the adequacy of Dion's 211u001eproduct-transfer procedures and training, the adequacy of the Federal Highway 211u001eAdministration's oversight6 of motor carriers' procedures and training for 211u001eloading and unloading hazardous materials, and the adequacy of Florida's 211u001eoversight of the fire safety of storage tanks.