A news article mentions that a 58 year old man was seriously injured when he was was in the process of mixing sodium cyanide pellets with hydrogen peroxide at a Chemical plant, when the volatile solution exploded, soaking him in the hot toxic mixture.
"An investigation by the HSE revealed that approximately five times too much hydrogen peroxide was added to the sodium cyanide pellets which resulted in an exothermic explosion".
Train your workers on the hazards of inadvertent reactions. Read the article in this link.
Read another article about the same incident in this link.
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