Explosion of a Chlorine Vessel

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  This report concerns the death of a maintenance worker who was operating a chlorine (7782505) degunking processor when he suffered fatal injuries due to the explosion of a nearby main storage tank. He had been exposed to large quantities of chlorine. The company employed over 700 people and was built in the 1950s. The degunking process was an old one and was part of the on-site waste treatment facility. The purpose of the process was to retrieve chlorine from waste material. The task being performed at the time of the explosion was a routine one of heating the waste material in one tank before siphoning off released gases.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Explosions Hazardous Substances Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Explosive-atmospheres FACE-83-004 Safety-research Toxic-gases
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; FACE
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)   ; Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)  
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House) ; NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE8304
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study ; Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  West Virginia ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research ; DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health ; Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America ; North America
• Pages in Document:
  3 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00234998
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB97-147037
• Citation:
  Morgantown, : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• CAS Registry Number:
  Chlorine (CAS RN 7782-50-5) ; Chlorine (CAS RN 7782-50-5)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1983
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  31-33 - Manufacturing - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1983/03/01
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e2285cb5e0db9a9cd93fcd0a0e1aacd16eb9845d9b6234d1dd803e0e46fb24f885a60d37d5b7c7ece7577bbf8af9a262b088ff35e02be13393376306a728c6e6
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167420/cdc_167420_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 264.64 KB ]