When inspection fails
Six recent incidents, drawn from official investigations and public reporting. In each one, the safeguard that failed was not a design code or a material spec — it was the gap between an inspection on paper and what actually happened in the field. Each case study ends with how SureSight closes that specific gap.
The wrong flange: the Martinez refinery fire
A contract crew opened Flange 4 instead of Flange 3 on a 600°F hot-oil system. Three-day fire, ~$924M in damage. Nothing at the point of work verified which flange was being opened.
A finding without follow-through: the Longview tank failure
An inspection called the tank "not fit for continued service" ten months before it failed, killing 11. The gap wasn't detection — it was follow-through.
The daily inspection that didn't happen: a $1.2M repeat
After a trench fatality and a federal settlement, a random OSHA inspection found the same failures again — including no daily excavation inspections.
Alone in the pipe: a confined-space fatality at Tuas
A 24-year-old welder was found unconscious inside a 71cm pipe. Every pre-entry control is observable — which means every one is verifiable.
Five storeys above the drop zone: the Jurong Port formwork collapse
Formwork being repositioned fell from the fifth storey onto an occupied lorry. Exclusion zones are only real while they're empty — and watched.
The pipeline that met every spec: Putra Heights
No negligence, no sabotage — just 25 years of soil subsidence and 15.9 cm of deflection nobody could prove anyone had looked for. Now 2,680 km of pipeline needs verified review.