Braamfontein Explosion, 1896
The incident information that gets reported to SAFEX is collected in the SAFEX database. It is a gold mine of information about past incidents and readily available for SAFEX Members to access. With almost 1,000 incidents captured in the database, it provides a richness of information that is difficult to equal. The other remarkable fact is that those incidents date back almost 100 years. In 1896 an explosion occurred in the Braamfontein Station. It happened in South Africa, our own backyard so to speak. Let’s take this tragedy as the subject of our case study.
Presentation given at the NIXT Conference #77, South Africa on 26 October 2023.
Boet Coetzee