Dataset of NaTech events triggered by lightning within the Process Industry

This study delves into the impactful realm of lightning strikes, a meteorological phenomenon that poses substantial risks to the process industry by potentially triggering technological disruptions. Despite constituting merely 13% of NaTech (Natural-Technological) events, lightning events hold significant consequences within the process industry. To better comprehend this, a meticulous analysis of past lightning-triggered events was conducted, utilizing open-source industrial-accident databases to create a new dataset. The research builds upon prior studies concerning NaTech events triggered by lightning and updates the information, encompassing events until the close of 2022. A systematic classification system was introduced, in adherence to NaTech risk field recent studies, enhancing the accuracy of information. Moreover, adjustments were made in compliance with international regulations governing lightning strikes. From deep analysis of past events collected in this new dataset, the variables relationship can be elucidated allowing the estimation of conditional probabilities governing critical dependencies associated with the industrial infrastructure, such as the source and the state of damage, the final scenario, and the sensible equipment or macro-sector bolster industrial vulnerability awareness against this common natural factor. Novel insights in this line could be deepened in a contribution submitted to the Heliyon Journal part of Elsevier’s Cell Press entitled.