TABLE OF CONTENTS At about 14.30 in the afternoon of 11 July 1978 fire and explosions from a road tanker carrying propylene occurred at a camp site at Los Afaques (The Sand Dunes) at San Carlos de la Rapita between Barcelona and Valencia in Spain. The eventual death toll was 215.
A Court of Inquiry on the disaster was held at Tarragona (Court of Inquiry, Tarragona 1982). A report was submitted to the inquiry by Carrasco (1978). Independent investigations for the HSE were been carried out by Scilly (1978) and Hymes (1983SRD R275), for the Hampshire Fire Brigade by Stinton (1978, 1979, 1983) and for the Dutch Directorate General of Labour by Ens (1986 LPB 68). Analyses of the accident are given by V.C. Marshall (1985, 1986 LPB 72, 1987).
Selected references on San Carlos are given in Table A16.1.
| Carrasco (1978); Stinton (1978, 1979a,b, 1983); UKAEA (1979); J. Harris (1979); Court of Inquiry, Tarragona (1982); Moodie (1982); Scilly (1982); Hymes (1983 SRD R275, 1986 LBP61); Manas (1984); V.C. Marshall (1985, 1986 LPB 72, 1987); Ens (1986 LPB 68, 72); Foxcroft (1986 LPB 71); Bond (1987 LPB 73) |
The camp site was a triangular shaped piece of land between the coast road and the sea some 3 km from the nearest township San Carlos de la Rapita to the north. It was 200 m in length and 10,000 m 2 in area, tapering from about 100 m wide at the...
