# PHMSA Hazmat Incident I-1992120011 — SODIUM ALUMINATE, SOLUTION — HESSTON, KS

**Citation:** PHMSA Hazmat Incident I-1992120011  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 1992-10-29  
**Published:** Not stated

Serious reporter-submitted hazardous materials transportation incident on 1992-10-29 in HESSTON, KS.

## Document text

PHMSA hazardous materials incident report I-1992120011.
Incident date: 1992-10-29.
Location: HESSTON, KS.
Mode: Highway.
Carrier/reporter: SCHNEIDER NAT'L BULK CARRIERS.
Shipper: NALCO CHEMICAL CO.
Materials: UN1819; SODIUM ALUMINATE, SOLUTION; hazard class 8; 0.5 LGA released.
What failed: Hose; Loading or Unloading Lines.
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=jFbWapqCjkhCyATRLTIWdQ%3D%3D>
- Source ID: `phmsa-hazmat-incidents`
- SHA-256: `2caff6c5baaf5722709897072aa7556ecdd29e5424d804fbd93cb117bb06f77c`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-13T12:55:56.545Z
- Exported: 2026-08-27T17:36:14.806Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-hazmat-incident-i-1992120011`

### Source metadata

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  "cities": [
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  ],
  "states": [
    "KS"
  ],
  "originCities": [],
  "modes": [
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  ],
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      "commodityName": "SODIUM ALUMINATE, SOLUTION",
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    }
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  "caveat": "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.",
  "privacyCaveat": "The public CSV excludes preparer contact fields. Event Description is intentionally excluded from normalized records and search output to reduce incidental personal-information risk.",
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}
```