# PHMSA Hazmat Incident I-1990120350 — POTASSIUM PERMANGANATE — BALTIMORE, MD

**Citation:** PHMSA Hazmat Incident I-1990120350  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 1990-10-26  
**Published:** Not stated

Serious reporter-submitted hazardous materials transportation incident on 1990-10-26 in BALTIMORE, MD.

## Document text

PHMSA hazardous materials incident report I-1990120350.
Incident date: 1990-10-26.
Location: BALTIMORE, MD.
Mode: Highway.
Carrier/reporter: ROADWAY PACKAGE SYSTEM INC.
Shipper: VWR SCIENTIFIC CO.
Materials: UN1490; POTASSIUM PERMANGANATE; hazard class 5.1; 132.086 LGA released.
What failed: Basic Material.
How failed: Ripped or Torn.
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=via0vDHwKY6JlUvng1%2F8MA%3D%3D>
- Source ID: `phmsa-hazmat-incidents`
- SHA-256: `4e10fa5b473002c7877e982b723cf376a8543c9445ae0e042cfc5014405d1b03`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-13T12:55:56.545Z
- Exported: 2026-08-26T12:23:28.923Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-hazmat-incident-i-1990120350`

### Source metadata

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```