Never Give Safety A Day Off - Industrial Accidents

[6souls]

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/0...er-a-wide-area
https://kstp.com/medical/day-after-d...scene/5649396/

A fire has been burning at a scrapyard in Becker, MN for over 36 hours. Below zero temps have made fighting the fire difficult.

The scrapyard is located in an industrial area near the Mississippi River.

Edit: Local NBC newscast just reported that the smoke will reach Minneapolis (south of Becker) by tomorrow morning and then winds will shift overnight Friday sending the smoke northeast towards Duluth and Wisconsin.

Photos:

Spoiler: show

https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/c...ire_in_becker/ - video

[6souls]

And the fire is finally out



https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/0...etal-in-becker

[Salodin]

I thought that was snow lmao

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[6souls]

https://apnews.com/6d87d10f8470ee0c86b1255594b6c6dd

A warehouse in San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf went up in flames causing at least $5M in damages.

A huge fire that tore through a warehouse on San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf has destroyed fishing gear used to deliver about two-thirds of the city’s fresh seafood, threatening to disrupt the upcoming Dungeness crab season, local fishermen said Sunday.

The fire erupted before dawn Saturday and wiped out the warehouse the size of a football field near the end of Pier 45.

Larry Collins, who runs the San Francisco Community Fishing Association, estimates that thousands of crab, shrimp and black cod traps worth up to $5 million were lost in the blaze. He told the San Francisco Chronicle the numbers could be far higher since port officials changed the warehouse’s function into a storage facility in February because it lacked proper fire sprinklers.

[Psion]

Welp... guess its.. fisherman's horizon now. /glasses

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1334498376314982400

[TsingTao]

'An explosion at a waste water treatment tank' sounds just terrible.

[Guyverarmor]

'An explosion at a waste water treatment tank' sounds just terrible.

Area probably still doesn't smell as bad as Luling, TX

[mallister]

my grandparents lived in Luling for something like 15 years. it did smell unique.

[Guyverarmor]

And the oil smells that come into Austin from Luling just get a little worse each year :-/

[mallister]

it's fucking shangrala if you're into reptiles though. amazing diversity in large colubrids. really nice broad banded copperheads too, though i think they lost their subspecies status and have been downgraded to just a color phase.

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1352269989684850694

[6souls]

https://apnews.com/article/lliquid-n...84b6964782e9fe

A liquid nitrogen leak at a Foundation Food Group plant in Gainesville, GA killed six and injured 11, three critically.

Poultry plants rely on refrigeration systems that can include liquid nitrogen. Sheriff’s deputies, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the state fire marshal were investigating the deaths and cause of the leak.

Foundation Food Group Vice President for Human Resources Nicholas Ancrum called the leak a tragic accident and said early indications are that a nitrogen line ruptured in the facility.

When leaked into the air, liquid nitrogen vaporizes into an odorless gas that’s capable of displacing oxygen. That means leaks in enclosed spaces can become deadly by pushing away breathable air, according to the U.S. Chemical Safety Board.

Gainesville is the hub of Georgia’s poultry industry, which is the largest in the country. Thousands of employees work across multiple processing plants around the city and much of the workforce, like in many meat processing plants nationwide, is Latino.

[Qalbert]

I realize this is fucked up but was anyone else sorta let down when they got to the part about it displacing oxygen? First part had me thinking some sort of (admittedly unrealistic) sci-fi/horror movie freezing scenario.

[Rooney]

I realize this is fucked up but was anyone else sorta let down when they got to the part about it displacing oxygen? First part had me thinking some sort of (admittedly unrealistic) sci-fi/horror movie freezing scenario.

Used to work for a company that did inspections of this kind of system. They carry masks for exactly this kind of situation. Just enough to gtfo, but then again they're trained to do so when shit hits the fan. They don't, they die, end of scenario.

Besides rescue crews, pretty much any sign of gas at all is a gtfo scenario or you die. Especially in enclosed areas.

[Dimmauk]

I realize this is fucked up but was anyone else sorta let down when they got to the part about it displacing oxygen? First part had me thinking some sort of (admittedly unrealistic) sci-fi/horror movie freezing scenario.

Yeah I was thinking it would like T2 level of frozen carnage

[Melena]

Nah, that got myth busted awhile ago.

[Salodin]

Yeah I was thinking it would like T2 level of frozen carnage

Yeahhh I was imagining that scene where they shatter the T1000 right before the steelworks conclusion

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[Roranora]

pumping liquid N2 for Halliburton was p gnarly not gonna lie

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/abc7newsbayarea/...04555897389056