re: Evacuation at Dow Plaquemines **Chlorine leak**

No they don't

Not required to enter Dow. I was there 2 times this week

Kind of like having your badge on you at all times, but half the people don't. We are going to escape respirators site wide early in 2017, right now it's only required in one block.

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9 people died in a town of 2,600

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Yeah, okay.

The press, especially here, is soooo reliable. Most of the info you are referring to came from The Aiken (sub)Standard. And DHEC sure as frick did not want their complete and total frickery of the whole situation made public.

I am a trauma nurse and was working at Aiken Regional the night it happened. More than 9 ppl died and a hell of a lot more died afterwards from exposure.

I think I kinda know how many ppl were brought in. My husband at the time was also with one of the Fire Departments that were eventually allowed to respond. The entire situation was horribly mishandled and there were really no plans in place that anyone was actually reliably familiar with in case of anything remotely like this happening. The fire department as well as other emergency personnel were delayed in being allowed within a certain perimeter for far too long.

I love how ppl like you, living far away from SC, and especially unfamiliar and completely ignorant to the area where it occurred, where I was born and raised, think you know more than the ppl who were directly involved in what happened.

What the frick do I have to gain by inflating or exaggerating what happened that night, huh?

The only point in posting what I saw and took part in that particular night at the hospital was to say that I did not even realize how dangerous chlorine gas is and to say that I hoped everyone involved was safe and unharmed.

Way to display what a complete and total a-hole dickwad you apparently are.

ETA: And just to add..since I DID grow up in this area and lived there my ENTIRE fricking life, I personally KNEW more than nine ppl that died. If you would like, I would be more than fricking happy to take pictures of their gravestones and find their obits to appease your abundant and overwhelming disrespect of friends that I lost who are no longer with us bc of what happened. Go frick yourself.

I'm on the new construction of Poly B and we are required to carry them on us at all times. I've also been in LHC3 and was required.

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Yeah, okay.

The press, especially there, is soooo reliable.

I am a trauma nurse and was working at Aiken Regional the night it happened. More than 9 ppl died and a hell of a lot more died afterwards from exposure.

I think I kinda know how many ppl were brought in. My husband at the time was also with one of the Fire Departments that were eventually allowed to respond. The entire situation was horribly mishandled and there were really no plans in place that anyone was actually reliably familiar with in case of anything remotely like this happening. The fire department as well as other emergency personnel were delayed in being allowed within a certain perimeter for far too long.

I love how ppl like you, living far away from SC, and especially unfamiliar and completely ignorant to the area where it occurred, where I was born and raised, think you know more than the ppl who were directly involved in what happened.

What the frick do I have to gain by inflating or exaggerating what happened that night, huh?

The only point in posting what I saw and took part in that particular night at he hospital was too say that I did not even realize how dangerous chlorine gas is and to say that I hoped everyone involved was safe and unharmed.

Way to display what a complete and total a-hole dickwad you apparently are.

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Lol. I think it's easy to track how many people fricking died.

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Respirators are located throughout a plant and control rooms but not for every person...Definitely not for contractors on site either

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Maintanence side. 100% required. New construction, may not be, even though everyone is in the same plant. No clue why maintenance lives matter and new construction matter less.

Calm down, sweetheart. You getting emotional over me correcting you saying a town of 3,000 people died off overnight is what's humorous.

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Girl

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Oh

The thing that's so dangerous about chlorine is such a small amount of it goes a long way. I'm talking in the parts per million, you can smell it. The chlorine coming out the header in the plant is concentrated. Imagine smelling the same thing as pool chlorine, but so intense that it takes your breath away. All you can do when you get blasted is run upwind of it to get some relief. I hate working with chlorine. I work around a lot more dangerous chemicals and hazards, but next to electricity - chlorine is the one I hate working around the most. It gets in your lungs and makes HCl.

And the dangerous thing about chlorine in a line is if it's sitting in a carbon steel pipe and heated to over 150 degrees C, you will get a pipe fire that will get away from you in a hurry. There's a chemical reaction that happens with carbon steel, chlorine, and heat over 150 degrees C (a fire surpasses that big time).

The hazards that come with chlorine plays a big role in why Dow sold off it's chlorinated organics business to Olin.

My best friend who is maintenance for contractor at DOW was just called in to get everything started back up. Hopefully everything goes smooth

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Evacuation at Dow Plaquemines **Chlorine leak**
LAO requires everyone inside the gates to have an escape respirator.

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My company that deliveries to LAO has never been told to have an escape respirator on person. Maybe that is just Dow employees


ETA: Unless they are given one at the gate. I know for a fact the drivers do not bring one in their truck.