Le Floch R, Mahé P J, Perrot P
Service de réanimation chirurgicale et des brûlés, CHU Nantes, Nantes, France.
Service des brûlés et de chirurgie plastique, CHU Nantes, Nantes, France.
Ann Burns Fire Disasters. 2022 Mar 31;35(1):3-17.
Incidents involving tanker trucks regularly appear in the media. The one in Morogoro (Tanzania) on August 10th 2019 (killing at least 89) attracted our attention. We reviewed medical literature (sparse) and media reports to identify and analyse these incidents. In high income countries isolated accidents may be responsible for a few deaths. In low income countries "double" accidents can occur. A commonplace incident occurs which frequently has no victim. When the incident involves a petrol leak, people gather to scoop up the fuel. A spark ignites the petrol and the ensuing engulfing fire is in itself deadly. Frequently, it triggers a tanker BLEVE, which is responsible for a disaster. Preventing these casualties should include avoiding the initial incident, and also (and above all) discouraging the locals from scooping up fuel they can use or possibly sell in order to survive.
涉及油罐车的事故经常出现在媒体上。2019年8月10日发生在坦桑尼亚莫罗戈罗的事故（造成至少89人死亡）引起了我们的关注。我们查阅了医学文献（资料稀少）和媒体报道，以识别和分析这些事故。在高收入国家，个别事故可能导致少数人死亡。在低收入国家，可能会发生“双重”事故。常见的情况是，事故往往没有受害者。当事故涉及汽油泄漏时，人们会聚集起来舀取燃料。一个火花点燃了汽油，随后熊熊燃烧的大火本身就致命。通常，这会引发油罐车的沸腾液体扩展蒸汽爆炸（BLEVE），从而导致灾难。预防这些伤亡事故应包括避免最初的事故，而且（最重要的是）劝阻当地人不要去舀取他们可以用来维持生计或可能出售的燃料。
