Causality

By The Engineered Network

Chain of Events. Cause and Effect. We analyse what went right and what went wrong as we discover that many outcomes can be predicted, planned for and even prevented.... more

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The podcast currently has 282 episodes available.

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May 30, 202664: Verrückt Waterslide
Spurred on to build the tallest and fastest Waterslide in the world by a Travel Channel show about Waterparks, the owners of the Kansas City Schlitterbahn Waterpark designed and built the Verrückt Waterslide in record time. A net enclosed the ride and on its third Summer Season a 10 Year Old boy died on impact with that netting mid-ride. We look at how design decisions, subsequent modifications and assumptions made this incident inevitable...but also how it could have easily been prevented.
With John Chidgey.
News Articles:
Water slide that decapitated 10-year-old boy
Kansas water slide death: 10yo son of Scott Schwab killed
Women with boy in ill-fated waterslide raft speak out
Trial of Schlitterbahn maintenance workers opens | Kansas City Star
World’s tallest waterslide
Court Grants Permission To Destroy World’s Tallest Waterslide
Designer of Schlitterbahn slide that decapitated boy arrested at DFW
Kansas lawmakers approve amusement ride law following child’s death
Kansas water slides remain closed after new law
Verrückt water slide timeline of events
Charges laid over tragic death of Caleb Schwab on world’s tallest waterslide
Commentary Articles:
Verruckt Waterslide Death Result Of Poor Weight Distribution?
The making of Schlitterbahn’s Verruckt water slide: Too much, too fast?
Schlitterbahn’s Tragic Slide (ORIGINAL)
Schlitterbahn’s Tragic Slide (ARCHIVED)
Legal Articles:
Sisters Represented by SJB Reach Verruckt Settlement
$20M Settlement Reached In Verrückt Water Slide Tragedy - Legal Reader
Murder charges dismissed over decapitation of Caleb Schwab on ‘world’s tallest waterslide’ - ABC News
‘Good old boys’ acquitted over 10-year-old boy’s death on ‘world’s tallest’ waterslide - ABC News
Videos of the Ride:
World’s Tallest Water Slide Now Open to Public
Verrückt Water Slide at Schlitterbahn Kansas City
ASTM:
ASTM International
ASTM International Safety Standards for Amusement Rides & Devices published by Committee F24
F2291 (2006 Edition) (PDF)
General Information:
Schlitterbahn Kansas City
Schlitterbahn
ProSlide - Hydro Magnetic

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Episode Gold Producers:
'r', Steven Bridle, Kellen Frodelius-Fujimoto and Steve Branam.
Episode Silver Producers:
Mitch Biegler, Shane O'Neill, Jared Roman, Katharina Will, Chad Juehring, Ian Gallagher and Jamie Russell.

With thanks to
Rosie Symes
for the topic suggestion.
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35min
March 07, 202663: Wittenoom
With demand for Asbestos in building products in the 1940s, a discovery in Western Australia's remote Pilbara region of Blue Asbestos led to the creation of a mining town called Wittenoom. Despite the growing list of illnesses and deaths of workers from the mine and milling operation, the company pressed on until it closed for 'financial' reasons. We look at the dangers of dust inhalation and try to determine if we have collectively learned anything from the disaster at Wittenoom.
With John Chidgey.
News Articles:
Memories of Wittenoom
Exposure to Asbestos Takes Its Toll
CSR Still Fighting
Closure of Wittenoom
Wittenoom Riddled with Asbestos
About Asbestos:
Asbestos
The Colours of Asbestos
What Is Asbestos and Where Does it Come From?
About Engineered Stone:
Engineered Stone Fact Sheet
Engineered Stone Ban
General Information:
Closure of Wittenoom
Asbestos fiber length as related to potential pathogenicity
Consequences of Wittenoom
Silicosis and Black Lung Cases Rising
Wittenoom
Australian Blue Asbestos
Selling the Wittenoom Dream
Wittenoom Health Disaster
Lang Hancock

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Episode Gold Producers:
'r', Steven Bridle, Kellen Frodelius-Fujimoto and Steve Branam.
Episode Silver Producers:
Mitch Biegler, Shane O'Neill, Jared Roman, Katharina Will, Chad Juehring, Ian Gallagher and Jamie Russell.

With thanks to
Christian French
for the topic suggestion.
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32min
February 02, 202662: OceanGate Titan
A young company pushing to re-invent deep sea exploration with an initial focus on opening up tourism to the wreck of the Titanic, OceanGate garnered the fascination of many around the world. With a different approach to their hull design they forged ahead despite many warnings from experts in the field, concerned about their design decisions and materials choices. When the submersible imploded killing all five aboard including the company CEO, the experts were only surprised about how OceanGate had got as far as they had...before it all went horribly wrong.
With John Chidgey.
Formal Reports:
NTSB Final Report (PDF)
US Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation Final Report (PDF)
General Information:
OceanGate
Titan Submersible Implosion
Antipodes
Oceangate Cyclops 1 (PDF)
OceanGate founder looks beyond Titanic to new deep-sea frontiers
The Titan Tragedy: A Deep Dive Into Carbon Fiber

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Episode Gold Producers:
'r', Steven Bridle, Kellen Frodelius-Fujimoto and Steve Branam.
Episode Silver Producers:
Mitch Biegler, Shane O'Neill, Jared Roman, Katharina Will, Chad Juehring, Ian Gallagher and Jamie Russell.
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40min
November 29, 202561: West Gate Bridge
Planned for nearly a century, when the time came to build a permanent link across the Lower Yarra River, a relatively new style of bridge, the box-girder, was chosen. Using new computer technology assisting the engineers to design a bridge that was too complex to calculate by hand, and using a unique lifting strategy promised time and cost savings. Ultimately though when the pieces didn't fit together in the air, their attempts to make them fit, didn't work. We dive into what went wrong on Australia's largest ever industrial disaster.
With John Chidgey.
Formal Report:
Victorian Royal Commission Report (PDF)
Milford Haven Incident:
Cleddau Bridge disaster
General Information:
Kentledge
West Gate Tunnel
Slide rule
Box girder bridge
Cleddau Bridge
Widening the West Gate Freeway
Melbourne October 15 Weather
The West Gate Bridge Memorial
Robbo Bennett’s Tribute
How the West Gate Bridge collapse changed Melbourne
1970 West Gate Bridge Disaster
West Gate Bridge Image Gallery
The West Gate Bridge Collapse
West Gate Bridge Under Construction, 1969

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Episode Gold Producers:
'r', Steven Bridle, Kellen Frodelius-Fujimoto and Steve Branam.
Episode Silver Producers:
Mitch Biegler, Shane O'Neill, Jared Roman, Katharina Will, Chad Juehring, Ian Gallagher and Jamie Russell.
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39min
August 26, 202560: Carnival Triumph
A leaking flexible pipe started a fire in the Engine Room aboard the Carnival Triumph during its return journey from Mexico in early 2013. The fire caused minor damage in one, very important section of the Engine Room leading to a total loss of Mains Power. With only intermittent Emergency Power and over 4,000 people on board the ship drifted with the currents before it was tugged finally to safety. The Netflix Documentary 'Poop Cruise' looked at the human consequences...we dive into the engineering design that was inherently flawed from Day One.
With John Chidgey.
Formal Report:
BMA Investigation Report (PDF)
News Releases and Articles:
Carnival Cruises issues statement
Carnival Triumph set sail with problems
Stricken cruise ship docks
How Poop Cruise Crisis Reshaped Cruising
General Information:
Trainwreck Poop Cruise (Netflix)
Failure Domain
Cruise Lines International Association
Understanding Cruise Passenger Rights

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Episode Gold Producers:
'r', Steven Bridle, Kellen Frodelius-Fujimoto and Steve Branam.
Episode Silver Producers:
Mitch Biegler, Shane O'Neill, Jared Roman, Katharina Will, Chad Juehring, Ian Gallagher and Jamie Russell.
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25min
April 30, 202559: Bayer CropScience
After an extended outage of the Methomyl Unit at the Bayer facility in Institute, West Virginia, the decision was made to commence a restart of the Unit even though the DCS upgrade was still incomplete and the newly replaced Residue Treater hadn't been fully recommissioned. An incident whose root cause was years in the making would ultimately cost two people their lives.
With John Chidgey.
Related Episodes:
Causality Episode 26: Bhopal
Formal Reports:
Bayer CropScience Pesticide Waste Tank Explosion
CSB Final Report (PDF)
CSB Final Report News Release
CSB Hearing Testimony (PDF)
Public Meeting Transcript
News Releases and Articles:
Lawsuit links student’s death to ‘08 Bayer explosion
Bayer Settles 2008 Fatal Plant Explosion Lawsuit
Bayer cited, fined in fatal explosion at plant in August
General Information:
Bayer
Insecticide
Ovicide
Organising for Safety: How Structure Creates Culture

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Episode Gold Producers:
'r', Steven Bridle and Kellen Frodelius-Fujimoto.
Episode Silver Producers:
Mitch Biegler, Shane O'Neill, Jared Roman, Katharina Will, Chad Juehring, Ian Gallagher and Jamie Russell.
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51min
March 31, 202558: West Fertilizer Company
In the early hours of the evening on the 17th of April, 2013 in the small city of West, Texas...smoke was seen emanating from the West Fertilizer Company building. In 20 minutes there was a massive explosion that levelled the facility and its surroundings, killing 15 people and injuring hundreds more. How this came to be, represented a failure of regulations, planning and grandfathering on every level.
With John Chidgey.
Related Episodes:
Causality Episode 44: Warehouse 12
Formal Reports:
Preliminary Findings Chemical Safety Board (PDF)
Final Chemical Safety Board Report (PDF)
West Fertilizer Explosion and Fire
CSB releases final report on West, TX blast
News Releases and Articles:
Fire that led to Texas fertilizer-plant explosion was deliberately set
West Texas Plant Explosion
Regulations:
Code of Practice: Safe storage of Solid Ammonium Nitrate (PDF)
General Information:
West Fertilizer Company Explosion
West, Texas
Polyolefin
Asphalt Shingle
Ammonium nitrate | H3N.HNO3 | CID 22985 - PubChem
This Month in Fire History: April 2024
City of West to Receive $10.4 Million in Lawsuit Settlement

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Episode Gold Producers:
'r', Steven Bridle and Kellen Frodelius-Fujimoto.
Episode Silver Producers:
Mitch Biegler, Shane O'Neill, Jared Roman, Katharina Will, Chad Juehring, Ian Gallagher and Jamie Russell.
...more
31min
January 07, 202557: Stardust Nightclub
On Valentines Day in 1981 in the North of Dublin, Ireland a fire broke out in a nightclub just following a Disco Dancing competition. We look at how measures taken to prevent illegal entry and poor building material choices cost 48 young people their lives.
With John Chidgey.
Related Episodes:
Causality Episode 43: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
Formal Reports:
Report of the Stardust Victims’ Compensation Tribunal (PDF)
Report of the Tribunal of Inquiry on the fire at the Stardust
News Releases and Articles:
Stardust: A timeline of the Tribunals, reports and inquests that led to this week’s verdict
Stardust: Apology call after nightclub fire deaths verdict
Stardust fire inquest of ‘paramount importance’
A grim uncertainty that haunts Stardust families
Stardust: Apology call after nightclub fire deaths verdict
How Did The Stardust Fire Start?
Stardust 30 Years On
Stardust Verdict
How tragedy unfolded at a Valentine’s disco
Irish government makes official apology
The night that started like any other
Law Society of Ireland Gazette
Stardust nightclub was pretty horrendous fire risk
Regulations:
Fire Services Act, 1981, Section 37
The Public Dance Halls Act, 1935 on JSTOR
General Information:
Dublin Corporation
Stardust Fire
A History of the Fire Service in Ireland

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Episode Gold Producers:
'r', Steven Bridle and Kellen Frodelius-Fujimoto.
Episode Silver Producers:
Mitch Biegler, Shane O'Neill, Jared Roman, Katharina Will, Chad Juehring and Ian Gallagher.

With thanks to
Aileen Brennan
for the topic suggestion.
...more
28min
December 17, 202456: BP Husky Toledo
On the 20th of September, 2022 at the BP Husky Toledo refinery in Ohio, a level transmitter change out from a month prior triggered a chain of events that would cost two operators their lives. We look at how poor Management of Change, high alarm rates and a resistance to stopping the job, let a plant upset turn into a disaster.
With John Chidgey.
Formal Report:
U.S. Chemical Safety Board Issues Final Report into Fatal 2022 Fire at BP-Husky Refinery
Fatal Naphtha Release and Fire at BP-Husky Toledo Refinery (PDF)
CSB June 2023 Investigation Update (PDF)
CSB Comments on the OSHA September 20, 2022, Federal Register Notice (PDF)
News Releases and Articles:
BP Faces $156K OSHA Fine in Refinery Explosion
BP accused of serious violations after fatal blast at US refinery
General Information:
Naphtha
What You Need to Know About California’s PSM Regulation for Refinery Safety
OSHA Penalties

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Episode Gold Producers:
'r', Steven Bridle and Kellen Frodelius-Fujimoto.
Episode Silver Producers:
Mitch Biegler, Shane O'Neill, Jared Roman, Katharina Will, Chad Juehring and Ian Gallagher.
...more
41min
October 19, 202455: CrowdStrike
On Friday the 19th of July, 2024 millions of CrowdStrike Falcon Agents the world over would lead to a Windows system crash on business machines throwing parts of the world into chaos. We look into exactly what caused it and how complacency and a lack of understanding amplified the effect of this wholly preventable incident.
With John Chidgey.
About Causality (TV):
Introducing Causality TV
Causality TV Episode 1: CrowdStrike (Video Release)
Formal Report:
Falcon Content Update Preliminary Post Incident Report
Channel File 291 Incident Root Cause Analysis (PDF)
News Releases and Articles:
CrowdStrike releases root cause analysis of the global Microsoft breakdown
CrowdStrike Senior Executive Adam Meyers faces CyberSecurity Committee
CrowdStrike exec apologises before US Congress for software glitch behind July global outage | Reuters
1 In 10 Orgs Dumping Their Security Vendors After CrowdStrike Outage
General Information:
CrowdStrike
2024 CrowdStrike incident
What is CrowdStrike?
Falcon Content Update Remediation and Guidance Hub
Antivirus XML Configuration File for CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor
Named Pipes
Pipes (Interprocess Communications)
Wildcard character

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Episode Gold Producers:
'r', Steven Bridle and Kellen Frodelius-Fujimoto.
Episode Silver Producers:
Mitch Biegler, Shane O'Neill, Jared Roman, Katharina Will, Chad Juehring and Ian Gallagher.
...more
30min

FAQs about Causality:

How many episodes does Causality have?

The podcast currently has 282 episodes available.