CSB Case Studies Samples For Students

Introduction of the Case Study

The BP Texas City explosion is among the world’s biggest catastrophic disasters that saw the loss of 15 lives of the BP workers and 170 workers being injured by the huge explosion. The accident was actually caused when a few workers tried to start up a splitter referred to as raffinate tower in the Isomerization Unit (Isom) after a repair shutdown (Mogford, 2005). Alarms and instrumentation gave misguiding indications since the 170 ft tower was actually overfilled discharging the liquid to the ‘blowdown’. This ‘was actually installed in the 1950’s and had never had any connections to the flare which ...

Hoeganaes Corporation, a subsidiary of GKN (UK), is an international producer of iron powder and atomized steel with facilities in U.S, Germany, Romania, and China. On 31st January 2011, a fire arising from the motor that drive bucket elevators resulted in two fatalities. On 29th March 2011, a flash fire injured an engineer replacing igniters on a band furnace. On 27th May 2011, there were three fatalities and two injuries resulting from the explosion of a leaking hydrogen pipe.
Analyses of these cases revealed that significant quantities of iron dust escaped from conveyance equipment. The bag-house filters were often out of service hence ...

The use of business ethics to assess business conduct in BP

In the recent years, there has been an expectation on companies to adhere to ethical standards. Every company desires to make profits and its known this is a goal that can compromise on ethics (Acheru, 2009). Employers are expected to take care of their employee safety, the environment and the public. When the ethical factors are not considered the results are catastrophic and company suffers many expenses (Flaxx, 2002). This was shown by the BP Texas city explosion. 15 workers were killed in the Texas plant explosion while 170 others were injured. There were trailers located to close to the ...