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  1. 11 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

    It's better than not evacuating them and having a bunch of people die from chemical burns. 

    obviously

    7 minutes ago, Iceman said:

    what's the alternative?  "hey you should have told us you were poisoning the town!  Yet there you sat while we and our families are having Thanksgiving and getting cancer... See ya in court mofos."

    The alternative is having your shit together and not burning down your plant.

  2. 1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    My near miss was an operator turned a pump on but didn’t open the valve in the line, so the pump was pushing hot material into a dead end. Eventually it overheated and blew apart, spraying hot hydrocarbon material out. Some metal hit an electric panel, caused spark that lit the liquid, which was pooling right under a sealed methanol tank of like 5-10 thousand gallons. That’s when they evacuated us in the lab. 
    That tank was too small to have a pressure relief valve I think, but either way if they didn’t get the fire out it would have either caused a catastrophic tank failure and big whoof or a BLEVE. 
     

    also had a methanol soaked filter auto ignite in a dumpster during a hot summer day but that was a small fire contained within the dumpster that got put out pretty quick. 
     

    but it’s never good when you hear the alarm and walk outside and see a decent smoke cloud. 
    or when you hear the boom of a pressure disc rupturing and wondering which plant it came from. 

    should have filled out a deadhead protectiong workbook imo

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