Description of Jaipur IOC explosion in 2009.

1. PRESENTED BY:-
Meena Lathi
Megha Paniker
Neha Chhabra
Patrika Gupta
Pritika Shrivastava

3. CONTENT
 Man Made Disaster
 Disaster
 Sitapura Industrial Association
 Problem Faced
 What happened
 Problems Faced
 Damage
 Preventive Measures
 Human Errors
 First Information System
 Insurance Cover
 Compensation
 Disaster Management Plan
 Legal Actions
 Sources

4. MAN MADE DISASTER
A man-made hazard is a threat having an element of
human intent, negligence, or error, or involving a
failure of a man-made system.
Examples:
Crime
Arson
Civil disorder
Terrorism
War
Industrial hazards
Fire

6. DISASTER
Type of Event: Explosions and Fire at Indian Oil
Storage Depot
Date of Event: 29/10/2009
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Jaipur, Rajasthan State, India
Number Killed: 11 (200+ injured)
Total Capacity: 1,00,000 kilolitres each of gasoline,
diesel and kerosene.
 Storage : 7,000 kilolitres of gasoline,
24,000 kilolitres of diesel and
1,000 kilolitres of kerosene .

8. Sitapura Industries Association
 1383 units, comprising of 325 garment, 115 jewelers, 110
handicraft, and other units like chemical, cable,
manufacturing, IT, BPO, Auto parts, Educational Institutes
and Hospitals having an investment of over 75,000 crore
 Has played an important part in shaping the economy of
the State of Rajasthan and generation of employment
(approximately 1,00,000 direct/indirect workers).
 Has played an important role in exports and generation of
foreign exchange.

10. WHAT HAPPENED?
 A massive fire broke out on 29 October’2009.
 Oil storage depot in Sitapura Industrial Area went up in
flames, including all 11 oil storage units
 Two huge explosions were heard before the fire ignited and
rapidly spread.
 Eyewitnesses having factories and hotels around Indian
Oil’s Sitapura (Jaipur) Oil Terminal they felt presence of
petrol vapour in the atmosphere around 4:00 p.m. on 29
October 2009
 The fire broke out around 7:30 pm and was visible from
over 25 kilometres

12. Cont..
 The incident occurred when petrol was being transferred
from the Indian Oil Corporation's oil depot to a pipeline.
 At 7:35 p.m. a huge ball of fire with loud explosion broke
out engulfing the leaking petrol tank and other nearby
petrol tanks with continuous fire with flames rising 30–35
meters .
 The District Administration and Indian Oil
Corporation had no disaster management plan to deal
with this kind of calamity.

14. Cont..
 The local fire officers were ill equipped to deal with fire
accidents of this magnitude. They remained onlookers
and no efforts were made to breach the terminal wall to
get closer to kerosene and diesel tanks to cool them
with water jets.
 IOC officials say it will take over a year to rebuild the
depot which has been completely damaged

16. PROBLEMS FACED
 Residents complained about respiratory, eye and skin
problems .
 Smoke also affected farms in the surrounding villages.
 The fire was a major disaster in terms of deaths, injury,
loss of business, property, displacement of people, and
environmental impact in Jaipur.

18. DAMAGES
 11 people and over 200 injured.
 The total loss of petroleum products was about 60,000
kilolitres.
 According to the Sitapura Industrial Association, at least
500 small and large adjoining factories were damaged by
the fire, with losses ranging from 500,000 rupees to
700,000 rupees.
 The total losses suffered by Indian Oil amounted to nearly
Rs.280 crore (Rs. 2.8 billion).

20. PREVENTIVE MEASURES
 Authorities cut power in the entire city of Jaipur.
 Army personnel joined 35 fire-fighter teams to control the
flames, but they abandoned attempts to extinguish the
blaze because the high temperatures prevented them
getting close enough.
 Army and experts from Mumbaiwere employed on the
30th to control the fire.
 The district administration decided to shut educational
institutes in Sitapura for the next eight days.

22. HUMAN ERROR
 The Oil Industries Safety Directorate found that the
remote leak stopping device was not working at the Jaipur
terminal in an audit in 2003.
 The inquiry found that despite the recommendation of the
2003 audit, the remote leak stopping device was never
operational in last six years

24. FIRST INFORMATION REPORT
The Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jaipur City, Jaipur
Mr. Mahaveer Swami ordered registering of a number
of First Information Report (FIR) against Indian Oil
Corporation Limited officers and Civil Administration
for non-performance of statutory duty and
negligence, under various sections as under:
Section 120B: Punishment of criminal conspiracy
Section 166: Public servant disobeying law, with
intent to cause injury to any person
Section 304A: Causing death by negligence

26. INSURANCE COVER
The Economic Times reported that, the lead insurer for IOC
are :
 ICICI Lombard with 50% of the share,
 Oriental Insurance, which accounts for around 25%.
 IFFCO Tokio and state-owned National Insurance
covers the remaining 25%.
 The national reinsurer, General Insurance
Corporation, has reinsured close to 35% of the cover.

28. COMPENSATION
 The Indian government has announced compensation of
 1 million rupees for the families of those killed,
 200,000 rupees for the seriously injured and
 100,000 rupees for those who sustained minor
injuries.

30. DISASTER MANAGEMENT PLAN
THE DISASTER MANAGEMENT ACT, 2005 envisages that
each revenue District must have a Disaster Management Plan
While 31 revenue Districts of Rajasthan had placed the Disaster
Management Plan on Rajasthan Government website Jaipur
District did not have any Disaster Management Plan.
 A Disaster Management Plan for Jaipur District has been put on
Internet on 17 November 2009 i.e. 20 days after the accident
took place on 29 October 2009.
 In the meanwhile Jaipur suffered two more disasters Swine Flu
order closure of schools, and derailment of a Train Mandore
Express killing six persons and injuring more than 50 persons.

31. LEGAL ACTIONS
A Legal Notice has been issued to Indian Oil Corporation
for violating:
 THE WATER (PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF
POLLUTION) ACT 1974,
 THE AIR (PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF
POLLUTION) ACT, 1981, and
 THE ENVIRONMENT (PROTECTION) ACT, 1986

32. SOURCES
 CNN News, Associated Press,
 BBC News,
 Indo-Asian News Service,
 The Times of India,
 The Economic Times,
 Indian Express,
 Indo-Asian News Service.