TANKSHIP TEXACO NORTH DAKOTA, PUMPROOM EXPLOSION, GULF OF MEXICO, OCTOBER 3, 1973, MARINE CASUALTY REPORT

On October 3, 1973, the tankship TEXACO NORTH DAKOTA, en route from Tampa, Florida, to Port Arthur, Texas, experienced a violent explosion in the after pumproom. The force of the explosion caused the forward bulkhead, the after bulkhead, and the overhead to rupture. In the engineroom, abaft the pumproom, three persons died as a result of the explosion. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the accident was the ignition of fuel-air vapors in the pumproom by hot gases, or other products of combustion, which were being ejected from a steam-driven air compressor.

• Corporate Authors:

  National Transportation Safety Board

  800 Independence Avenue, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20594

  United States Coast Guard

  2100 Second Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20593
• Publication Date: 1975-9-23

Media Info

• Pagination: 32 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air compressors; Atmosphere; Bilges; Casualties; Container tanks; Crash investigation; Crashes; Explosions; Fatalities; Fires; Fuels; Hazards; Ignition; Ships; Tankers; Vapors; Ventilation systems
• Identifier Terms: Texaco North Dakota (Ship); United States Coast Guard
• Uncontrolled Terms: Ship fires
• Geographic Terms: Gulf of Mexico
• Old TRIS Terms: Hazardous atmospheres; Pump room safety; Tank venting; Tanker casualties; Tanker explosions
• Subject Areas: Energy; Marine Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00093452
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: USCG-NTSB-MAR-75-5
• Files: NTIS, TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 14 1978 12:00AM