MORE FIRES & EXPLOSIONS ETC.

Last Monday I started a listing of the known (public) fires, explosions and spills into air or water at Chemtura/Uniroyal. Today is the end of my list only going back twenty-five years.


September .....29........1996.....blue discharge from Misa 0200 copper
..................................sulphate & copper hydroxide
April .........1 ........1994 ....oil leak and fire

March .........12 .......1994 ....Chlorine spill (air) used in production
..................................of sodium hypochloride
November ......12 .......1993 ....Fire in Bldg # 33 Toluene
..................................Diisocyanate was present in the building
December ......23 .......1992 ....Fire on roof of Administration building

May ...........22 .......1991 ....Toluene leak into sump ignited by a
..................................welder's torch
March .........19 .......1991 ....liquid ammonia spilled into the "Gig"
..................................Uniroyal fined $16,000
February ......3 ........1987 ....carbon disulphide cloud released
..................................$200,000 damage at Uniroyal
June ..........27 .......1984 ....Hydrogen Chloride gas escaped from
..................................a pipe local residents complained
..................................of "choking gas"