This is intended to be a starting point for discussion and to illustrate how existing chemical safety analyses can be used in pre-planning.
Learning from industrial firefighters, we can improve on how we use our gas detectors and potentially avert an explosion before it happens.
Bromides can act as central nervous system depressant and can lead to irritability, confusion and coordination problems, as well as hallucinations and coma.
Dubbed "the most serious U.S. refinery incident in recent years" by a top U.S. Chemical Safety Board official, an Aug. 6 flammable vapor explosion at a Richmond, Calif., refinery is under investigation by that agency.
Federal recommendations to change the National Fuel Gas Code to prevent disastrous explosions involving gas purging came only three days before a Feb. 7 natural gas explosion at a Middletown, Connecticut, power plant that killed six people and injured nearly a dozen others.
A vapor blast sweeps through Puerto Rico terminal.
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