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Tank 912 Buncefield 11
th
December 2005
At 5.59 a.m. the supervisor contacted the control room to
report that he thought the tank may have split. The control
room operator tried to divert the flow, but due to a
misunderstanding, he closed the wrong pipeline valve and did
not stop the flow. At 6.01 a.m. the vapour cloud exploded
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