Talk:Flixborough disaster

message: we need to redo this. i need to add a link to  Flixborough the town. what we need is a disambig page called flixborough, except if you search for 'flixborough' it brings you here.
how do we do this? how do we stop 'flixborough' coming here? I don't know  Lincolnshire Poacher
:I had previously fixed this -- see my note below -- there is now a separate page for Flixborough the village. --mervyn 16:25, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Initial comments 

message: I was just looking at the article for Bonby (I lived there for a few years back in the early 80s) - the article is woefully inadequate, and was thinking of adding to it.  Anyway - at the time I lived there, there were some 'modern' blocks of flats in the village that I seem to recall were described as having been built to house villagers from Flixborough who had to relocate following the disaster, presumably due to damage to their homes.  Is this true, or simply either apocryphal or my poor memory?  Thanks.  Carre 20:59, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flixborough villageres relocation? 

message: should it not be said that it was in Lincolnshire rater than north Lincolnshire, as it was at the time, or even Humberside, if that was in existence in '78? just a suggestion :)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Abc26324 (talk • contribs) 19:41, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I assume you mean 1974, in which case it would be Humberside which came into existence on 1 April 1974. Keith D (talk) 17:58, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

text: As above, the area was then Humberside but the fledgling Humberside Fire Service was still not fully operational and the emergency call-centre that initially controlled the response was in Louth, Lincolnshire and under the remit of Lincolnshire Fire Brigade. Control was subsequently re-routed to Scunthorpe.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.29.64.26 (talk) 22:32, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Location 

message: "It killed 28 people and seriously injured 36. No animals were hurt." This was the second + third paragraph the story, seems to be some kind of joke. Deleting the animal reference. Chardansearavitriol (talk) 09:41, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Animals. 

message: The author of the short article cited below (available through Academic Search Elite) is an experienced consulting engineer. He criticizes the idea to use flexible piping on centrifugal pumps, even if only temporarily. To support his claim he draws on the Flixborough explosion, which he believes could have been prevented using rigid piping. In fact, he believes that for any case in which process plants handle dangerous materials, extra care should be taken to recognize potential problems and prevent them.
Bloch, H. P. (2008). Remembering Flixboro: part 1. Hydrocarbon Processing, 87(10), 9.
Socrates90 (talk) 21:11, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Article on Preventing Catastrophic Failure

message: ....hadn't you better check the other reactor vessels for cracks?"
good question, not mentioned in this article, in the accounts of the report after the explosion, or in the set-up. 
question is raised in charles perrow's book "normal accidents", which was published shortly after his consultancy work on the three mile island nuclear accident, & which examines systems & accident scenarios from a mixed technological & sociological perspective.
duncanrmi (talk) 14:23, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Why do you say that? As mentioned in the inquiry report, and in the WP article "The major problem was thought to be getting reactor 5 moved out of the way. Only the plant engineer was concerned about restarting before the reason for the failure was understood, and the other reactors inspected." In other words, the question was asked but the plant engineer was out-ranked and over-ruled by others. (Some might think this evidence against the 'Flixborough was caused by chemical engineers not understanding the mechanical engineering issues' analysis and for the less-comforting 'Flixborough was caused by managers not understanding safety' view. I couldn't possibly comment.) Rjccumbria (talk) 19:56, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  "before you start installing that lump of bypass pipe....