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CEP: Process Safety Beacon - Good Housekeeping for Safety

Process Safety Beacon

December

2012

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A fire started in a fiber trash drum in a process building. The drum contained solder flux and paste, welding debris, general trash, and oil-soaked rags. It had not been emptied for a long time. The ignition source may have been hot welding debris or spontaneous combustion of the oil-soaked trash.

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A fire started in a fiber trash drum in a process building. The drum contained solder flux and paste, welding debris, general trash, and oil-soaked rags. It had not been emptied for a long time. The ignition source may have been hot welding debris or spontaneous combustion of the oil-soaked...

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