Safety Alert - Vacuum trucks

 Department of Labor Safety Alert - Vacuum trucks

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4 killed, 13 injured in phosgene gas leakage at GNFC plant in Dahej

4 killed, 13 injured in phosgene gas leakage at GNFC plant in Dahej: Mishap takes place late last night when mechanical failure in a chemical reactor at the company's Toluene Di-Isocyanate plant

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Caustic Vapors Ruined Biggest US Refinery | AIChE

Caustic Vapors Ruined Biggest US Refinery | AIChE

Even though this incident happended some time ago, it is worth a re read!!


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Operating experience with hypo system in lieu of chlorine

An inherently safer system of using hypo instead of chlorine dosing in cooling water systems is prevalent in many industries. A good presentation on the operating issues with such a system is in this link.

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Lessons to learn from water treatment plant accident

 Lessons to learn from water treatment plant accident

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Some more safety system myths

 Some more safety system myths

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Emergency evacuation - lessons to be learnt from the aviation industry

https://www.runwaygirlnetwork.com/2016/10/29/aa383-chicago-767-fire-highlights-evacuation-safety-issues/

 

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Initiative by India Glycols for filling CO2 fire extinguishers

There have been a few incidents where CO2 fire extinguishers have suddenly failed due to corrosion caused by moisture in CO2, leading to the formation of carbonic acid. See the earlier post at http://indiaprocesssafety.blogspot.in/2016/05/internal-corrosion-of-gas-cylinders-and.html

Thanks to Mr M.K.Rao, Executive Director of India Glycols for sharing this news:
India Glycols has started the service of filling CO2 fire extinguishers ensuring quality of the filled cylinders to prevent mositure entry. If you are interested, you may contact their marketing department:
rk.gupta@indiaglycols.com
sandeep.sharma@indiaglycols.com


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Worker-suffers-fatal-burns-when-ethanol-ignites

 http://www.workerscompensation.com/compnewsnetwork/news/24898-sd-worker-suffers-fatal-burns-when-ethanol-ignites-during-expansion-project.html

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Human error likely caused the deadly explosion

http://www.manufacturing.net/news/2016/10/basf-says-deadly-explosion-german-plant-likely-caused-error
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4 killed due to toxic gas leak in Gujarat

http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/gnfc-tdi-gas-plant-leak-four-killed-3735121/

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Fire at insecticide factory injures 8

News reports indicate at least eight persons have been injured in a fire at Hndustan Insecticides plant in Kerala. The fire is attributed to carbon disulphide.
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