Dr. Husna Tabasum*, , , Dr. Vishwanath S. Vallabha, , and , Dr. Gowtham M. D,
{"title":"Analyzing the Origin: A Forensic investigation of the Explosion in a Fireworks Shop","authors":"Dr. Husna Tabasum*, , , Dr. Vishwanath S. Vallabha, , and , Dr. Gowtham M. D, ","doi":"10.1021/acs.chas.5c00072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chas.5c00072","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Fireworks are integral to cultural celebrations across India, particularly during festivals such as Diwali, contributing significantly to the nation’s economy through both export and import activities. In 2023, India ranked as the 45th largest exporter and 35th largest importer of fireworks, with trade figures reflecting a growing industry. Despite its economic importance, the fireworks sector is often marred by safety lapses. This study investigates a catastrophic fire incident that occurred in a retail fireworks shop, resulting in 14 fatalities, 6 serious injuries, and damage to property. This study employs a comprehensive investigative methodology that integrates eyewitness accounts, systematic on-site examination, expert assessments from electrical utility authorities, a rule-out approach to eliminate potential ignition sources, and laboratory analysis of residue samples to determine the probable cause of the fire. Findings revealed that the improper storage practices and unsafe handling of firecrackers, particularly the costorage of black powder-based fireworks along with friction-sensitive chlorate and fulminate-containing firecrackers, played a critical role in the incident. The accidental dropping of these friction-sensitive firecrackers likely triggered spontaneous ignition, producing intense heat and open flames. This initial ignition rapidly ignited nearby combustible materials, including flammable packaging and black powder-based fireworks, thereby accelerating the spread of the fire and resulting explosion. This study highlights the critical need for stricter compliance with the segregation of incompatible pyrotechnic materials, the implementation of fire-resistant infrastructure, routine safety inspections, advanced fire detection and suppression systems, and comprehensive training programs for personnel involved in the retail and storage of fireworks to mitigate the risk of similar incidents in the future.</p>","PeriodicalId":73648,"journal":{"name":"Journal of chemical health & safety","volume":"32 5","pages":"566–571"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145104128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"","authors":"Guan-Wun Chen, and , Chuei-Tin Chang*, ","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73648,"journal":{"name":"Journal of chemical health & safety","volume":"32 4","pages":"XXX-XXX XXX-XXX"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.chas.5c00027","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144712537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aleksandr B. Stefaniak*, Elizabeth D. Brusak, Sayon Robinson, Lauren N. Bowers, Matthew Roemer, Joanna Matheson, Sherri A. Friend and M. Abbas Virji,
{"title":"","authors":"Aleksandr B. Stefaniak*, Elizabeth D. Brusak, Sayon Robinson, Lauren N. Bowers, Matthew Roemer, Joanna Matheson, Sherri A. Friend and M. Abbas Virji, ","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73648,"journal":{"name":"Journal of chemical health & safety","volume":"32 4","pages":"XXX-XXX XXX-XXX"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.chas.5c00076","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144712538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Juliana H. Halbach*, Chandler M. Cottam and Ravyn Tyler,
{"title":"","authors":"Juliana H. Halbach*, Chandler M. Cottam and Ravyn Tyler, ","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73648,"journal":{"name":"Journal of chemical health & safety","volume":"32 4","pages":"XXX-XXX XXX-XXX"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.chas.5c00048","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144712539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xue Li, Wei’ao Liu, Bing Chen, Ning Zhou*, Weibo Huang, Yiting Liang, Xiongjun Yuan and Zhaoyu Li,
{"title":"","authors":"Xue Li, Wei’ao Liu, Bing Chen, Ning Zhou*, Weibo Huang, Yiting Liang, Xiongjun Yuan and Zhaoyu Li, ","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73648,"journal":{"name":"Journal of chemical health & safety","volume":"32 4","pages":"XXX-XXX XXX-XXX"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.chas.5c00024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144712544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Kourosh Khaje, Behzad Fuladpanjeh-Hojaghan, Jürgen Gailer, Viola Birss and Edward P.L. Roberts*,
{"title":"","authors":"Kourosh Khaje, Behzad Fuladpanjeh-Hojaghan, Jürgen Gailer, Viola Birss and Edward P.L. Roberts*, ","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73648,"journal":{"name":"Journal of chemical health & safety","volume":"32 4","pages":"XXX-XXX XXX-XXX"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.chas.5c00047","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144712556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Special Issue: National Laboratories’ Safety Successes, Challenges, Research, and Approaches","authors":"Cheryl MacKenzie*, ","doi":"10.1021/acs.chas.5c00109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chas.5c00109","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73648,"journal":{"name":"Journal of chemical health & safety","volume":"32 4","pages":"336–337"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144807506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Amirhossein Naserbakht, Faezeh Tavassoli, Farzaneh Mostaed Mohsenabadi and Mehran Ghalenoei*,
{"title":"","authors":"Amirhossein Naserbakht, Faezeh Tavassoli, Farzaneh Mostaed Mohsenabadi and Mehran Ghalenoei*, ","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73648,"journal":{"name":"Journal of chemical health & safety","volume":"32 4","pages":"XXX-XXX XXX-XXX"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.chas.5c00054","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144712543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nazia Zakir*, Stuart Feinberg, Julie Hanebuth, Gregory Moss, Susan Baumann and Harry J. Elston,
{"title":"","authors":"Nazia Zakir*, Stuart Feinberg, Julie Hanebuth, Gregory Moss, Susan Baumann and Harry J. Elston, ","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73648,"journal":{"name":"Journal of chemical health & safety","volume":"32 4","pages":"XXX-XXX XXX-XXX"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.chas.5c00033","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144712548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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