Chinese Refined Oil Depot Accidents with Characteristics and Causal Factors, 1954-2023

470 refined oil depot accidents recorded in China between 1954 and 2023 provide the basis for this dataset. Wei Jiang compiled the data from public sources including accident investigation reports, books, and online databases. The dataset supports statistical analysis and network-based path analysis of accident causality.

Use Cases

• Statistical analysis of accident characteristics based on the 470 recorded incidents.
• Network analysis of causal relationships between factors based on the directed adjacency matrix.
• Identifying critical accident paths for fire and explosion incidents based on node centrality calculations.
• Research on safety management improvements for oil depots based on historical accident data.

Strengths

• 470 accident records spanning a 69-year period from 1954 to 2023.
• Includes a directed, weighted adjacency matrix for network analysis of causal relationships.
• Data compiled from multiple public sources including official reports and databases.
• Released under a CC0-1.0 license, allowing for unrestricted reuse.

Limitations

• Row count for the primary accident file is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic and source bias inherent to its compilation from Chinese-language sources.

Provenance

Source

Publicly available sources including accident investigation reports, books, and online databases.

Collection Method

Compiled by author Wei Jiang from government websites, professional databases, and Chinese monographs.

Time Range

1954 to 2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 07:36:10; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China