# PHMSA Hazmat Incident E-2008060090 — ORGANIC PEROXIDE TYPE B, LIQUID — BATON ROUGE, LA

**Citation:** PHMSA Hazmat Incident E-2008060090  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 2008-05-08  
**Published:** Not stated

Serious reporter-submitted hazardous materials transportation incident on 2008-05-08 in BATON ROUGE, LA.

## Document text

PHMSA hazardous materials incident report E-2008060090.
Incident date: 2008-05-08.
Location: BATON ROUGE, LA.
Mode: Highway.
Carrier/reporter: FedEx Freight East, Inc.
Shipper: ARKEMA.
Materials: UN3101; ORGANIC PEROXIDE TYPE B, LIQUID; hazard class 5.2; 5 LGA released.
What failed: Basic Material.
How failed: Gouged or Cut.
Reported failure causes: Inadequate Blocking and Bracing.
Reported result: Spillage.
Reporter-submitted DOT Form 5800.1 data may be incomplete, corrected, supplemented, or misreported. A record, serious-incident classification, failure description, or relationship to a reporting rule is not a PHMSA causal finding, compliance determination, or finding of a violation.

## Provenance

- Official: Yes
- Source: <https://portal.phmsa.dot.gov/PDFGenerator/getPublicReport/OHMIR_5800-1-PUBLIC?INCIDENTID=34yM9kQSZZj0Y2bLijZkVw%3D%3D>
- Source ID: `phmsa-hazmat-incidents`
- SHA-256: `c2d83d4f605a8fc8632c00b6b3183079dbe3ff7a5938ec6f58b78033fa33b265`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-13T12:55:56.545Z
- Exported: 2026-08-27T02:33:02.724Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-hazmat-incident-e-2008060090`

### Source metadata

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```