| Hazardous Materials Accident Report: Rupture of a Railroad Tank Car Containing Hazardous Waste Freeport, Texas September 13, 2002 Contributor(s): National Transportation Safety Board (Author) |
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ISBN: 1512273074 ISBN-13: 9781512273076 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $14.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2015 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Reference |
| Physical Information: 0.07" H x 8.5" W x 11" (0.24 lbs) 36 pages |
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| Publisher Description: About 9:30 a.m. central daylight time on September 13, 2002, a 24,000-gallon-capacity railroad tank car, DBCX 9804, containing about 6,500 gallons of hazardous waste, catastrophically ruptured at a transfer station at the BASF Corporation chemical facility in Freeport, Texas. The tank car had been steamheated to permit the transfer of the waste to a highway cargo tank for subsequent disposal. The waste was a combination of cyclohexanone oxime, water, and cyclohexanone. As a result of the accident, 28 people received minor injuries, and residents living within 1 mile of the accident site had to shelter in place for 5 1/2 hours. The tank car, highway cargo tank, and transfer station were destroyed. Two storage tanks near the transfer station were damaged; they released about 660 gallons of the hazardous material oleum. |