Saturday, April 14, 2018
US Nitrogen Discloses Chemical Risks
By Walter F. Roche Jr.
A report filed by a Greene County chemical company warns of the risk of detonation and fire along with severe reactions. including death if the company's primary product is accidentally ingested.
The filing, known as a Safety Data Sheet, was submitted this week to the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation by US Nitrogen, which manufactures ammonium nitrate for use in making explosives by its parent firm, Austin Powder, based in Ohio.
"There is an extreme risk that ammonium nitrate involved in a fire may detonate, especially if confined," the document states. It states that if a fire should occur involving the chemical, the area should be evacuated.
"If swallowed," the data sheet states,"get immediate medical attention...Do not induce vomiting," it continues, adding that symptoms include cyanosis, respiratory distress and death.
Ingestion, the filing states, causes methenoglobinemia, a condition in which too little oxygen is present in red blood cells
Skin exposure to the chemical can cause skin corrosion and irritation. Exposure to the eye can cause "serious eye damage," the disclosure states.
The seven page filing was submitted to TDEC yesterday.
The company also submitted to TDEC a report that they have completed testing the conductivity pf the condenser return water for 60 days of continuous operation. The testing relates to the production of carbon dioxide which is used by Praxair, a company operating on the same site as US Nitrogen.
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Almost nine (9) years have passed and now, only through the reporting of Mr Roche, UW nitrogen gives up the deadly chemicals being produced in the Southern Appalachian community of Mosheim, Tennessee.
ReplyDeleteRegulators, USn, Greene County Industrial Development Board (IDB), local politicians, fire departments, Rescue Squads, AND NOW WHAT ABOUT THE SCHOOLS SITTING WITHIN LESS THAN A MILE FROM THE FRONT DOOR OF THOSE SCHOOLS? I wonder if all those involved in this travesty will be just as quick to help those folks that already have the first remnants of the deadly AMMONIA NITRATE attack listed in this response to TDEC!
A fire? No notice to residents of the community! No escape plan in place for evacuation of hundreds of school children?
Nine (9) years these mean, careless and greedy old men have known this about this plant and not one time have they acknowledged the kind of tragedy that they have brought in for their self aggrandizement! Sad, sad old politicians to be soooooo mean to a rural community that has no idea of just how bad they have been treated.
Thank you Mr Roche for this confirmation of what I have been talking about and have stated how bad the place is for those that have no other resources to move our. Gov Haslam should be ashamed of himself and his minions, Martineau and Roberts for their complicity.