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chemical safety horrors from the CSB
these chemical safety board reports are something else. gawd some of this stuff is frightening
"heh yeah we sprang a methyl chloride leak and didn't find out until it triggered a distant alarm five days later, our bad"
chemical safety horrors from the CSB
"oh whoops the phosgene just diffused through the Teflon hoses! who coulda predicted that" just...aaaa
a DuPont engineer recommended a hose jacketed in Monel metal but, nope, stainless steel was cheaper
imagine being a factory worker. you don't get told about this stuff. you don't know that the equipment's safe or not, they're never gonna _tell_ you
chemical safety horrors from the CSB
bleh, was phosgene really handled this casually at DuPont?