Free Safety Videos
Free Safety Videos
Thanks to SJ from The SafetyToolshed for putting us onto these free safety videos from US Chemical Safety Board. They are some of the best safety videos we have seen – and they are FREE! They don’t pull any punches and most feature real life incident situations, investigations live footage and interviews with accident victims and their families.
Experimenting with Danger
10/20/2011
Hazards associated with conducting research at chemical laboratories in academic institutions…. More
Fatal Exposure: Tragedy at DuPont
9/22/2011
Three accidents occur over a 33-hour period at the Dupont plant in Belle, WV. … More
Animation of January 23, 2010 Phosgene Accident
7/7/2011
Animation of January 23, 2010 Phosgene Accident … More
U.S. Chemical Safety Board Iron Dust Testing May 26, 2011
6/3/2011
Video of testing on metal dust collected after the January 31, 2011, incident at the Hoeganaes Corporation in Gallatin, TN. The video shows two different tests, the first clip is filmed at normal speed followed by the two tests filmed in slow motion at 1,000 frames a second…. More
Fire in the Valley
3/21/2011
A CSB safety video depicting events leading to the August 28, 2008, catastrophic explosion and fire at the Bayer CropScience facility in Institute, WV, that fatally injured two workers. … More
Deadly Practices
2/3/2011
Dangers of intentionally releasing natural gas into work areas… More
Animation of Bayer CropScience Pesticide Waste Tank Explosion
1/20/2011
3D animation of the sequence of events leading up to the August 2008 explosion at Bayer CropScience in Institute, WV. … More
No Escape: Dangers of Confined Spaces
8/25/2010
A chemical fire erupts deep in a hydroelectric plant tunnel, trapping five workers…. More
Dangers of Hot Work
6/7/2010
Key lessons to prevent flammable vapor explosions caused by welding and cutting…. More
No Place to Hang Out: The Danger of Oil Sites
4/13/2010
“No Place to Hang Out” tells the tragic story of Devon Byrd and Wade White, two Mississippi teenagers who were killed October 31, 2009, in an oil tank explosion…. More
Surveillance video from July 19, 2009, fire and explosion at the CITGO Corpus Christi Refinery
12/9/2009
Surveillance Video Footage… More
Security Camera Footage from November 4, 2009, accident at Silver Eagle Refinery
11/23/2009
Video Camera Footage from November 4, 2009, explosion and fire at the Silver Eagle Refinery in Woods Cross, UT…. More
Inferno: Dust Explosion at Imperial Sugar
10/6/2009
A massive dust explosion kills 14 and injures 36 … More
Runaway: Explosion at T2 Laboratories
9/22/2009
A runaway chemical reaction takes the lives of four workers in Jacksonville, Florida. … More
Combustible Dust: An Insidious Hazard
7/28/2009
Dust from industrial processes can become the fuel for devastating explosions. … More
Emergency Preparedness: Findings from CSB Accident Investigations
6/10/2009
Lessons from ten years of CSB investigations on preparing for chemical disasters. … More
About the CSB
5/19/2009
Describes how CSB investigations help to prevent major chemical accidents. … More
Half An Hour to Tragedy
10/9/2008
Remaining too close to a propane leak proves fatal to responder and others…. More
Blast Wave in Danvers
8/25/2008
Solvent vapor explodes at a Boston-area ink plant, devastating a neighborhood. … More
Death in the Oilfield
7/17/2008
An oil tank explosion kills three workers performing hot work…. More
Fire from Ice
7/9/2008
Fire cripples a refinery after propane leaks from a frozen dead leg. … More
Emergency in Apex
4/16/2008
A North Carolina town is evacuated when fire engulfs a hazardous waste depot. … More
Anatomy of a Disaster
3/21/2008
A massive explosion kills 15 and injures 180 at the BP Texas City refinery… More
Reactive Hazards
7/31/2007
Four major accidents illustrate the dangers from uncontrolled chemical accidents. … More
Public Worker Safety
3/13/2007
Two public employees burn to death performing unnregulated hot work. … More
Explosion at Formosa Plastics (Illinois)
3/6/2007
A preventable human error leads to a vinyl chloride explosion, killing five. … More
Hazards of Nitrogen Asphyxiation
11/2/2006
Two contract workers suffocate while servicing a refinery process vessel. … More
Fire at Formosa Plastics (Texas)
7/20/2006
Without safegaurds, a small collision leads to a massive process fire…. More
Dangers of Propylene Cylinders
6/15/2006
Gas cylinders, rocketing from a fire, endanger a St. Louis neighborhood. … More
Ethylene Oxide Explosion at Sterigenics
3/30/2006
At a sterilization plant, bypassing a safety interlock has catastrophic results. … More
Dangers of Flammable Gas Accumulation
1/26/2006
When acetylene explodes inside a shed, three workers lost their lives. … More
Preventing Harm from NaHS
12/21/2005
Sodium hydrosulfide may create deadly hazards at pulp mills, mines, and tanneries … More
