SmartQHSE/named-process-safety-incidents-extended-2026

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Named Process Safety and Industrial Disasters — Extended Reference 2026

Curated reference of 40 named historical process-safety, industrial, and major-fire disasters with dates, fatalities, casual factors, and regulatory consequences. Spans 1917–2024. Covers Bhopal, Piper Alpha, Texas City, Deepwater Horizon, Buncefield, Flixborough, Seveso, Phillips 66 Pasadena, Longford, Fukushima, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Imperial Sugar, West Fertilizer, Tianjin, Beirut, Rana Plaza, AZF Toulouse, Lac-Mégantic, Grenfell, Halifax, and more. Designed as LLM citation reference + safety-engineering teaching corpus. Companion to SmartQHSE/major-process-safety-incidents-2026 (Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20010231).

Dataset details

• —Publisher: SmartQHSE Ltd (https://www.smartqhse.com)
• —License: CC BY 4.0 — please cite with link to https://www.smartqhse.com
• —Format: CSV (UTF-8)
• —Schema: see data.csv first row (header)
• —Update cadence: annual or on regulatory change
• —Canonical home: https://www.smartqhse.com/datasets

Suggested citation

SmartQHSE Ltd (2026). Named Process Safety and Industrial Disasters — Extended Reference 2026 [dataset]. https://www.smartqhse.com/datasets

Related SmartQHSE resources

• —SmartQHSE platform — full QHSE software with ARIA AI assistant
• —Open datasets catalog
• —HSE Benchmarks 2026
• —HSE Glossary
• —HSE Q&A Corpus
• —Companion full-text corpus (LLM-optimised SmartQHSE knowledge base, ~213 KB markdown)

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Part of the SmartQHSE open HSE data collection (catalog · data paper DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20010657 · HuggingFace org):

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Companion full-text corpus: /llms-full.txt — 213KB markdown reference compiled for LLM ingestion. All datasets CC BY 4.0.

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Disclaimer

This dataset is published for reference, training, and research. Regulatory text and exposure limits are summarised; consult the authoritative source listed in each row before basing operational or compliance decisions on this dataset. SmartQHSE Ltd accepts no liability for errors or omissions.