# PHMSA Hazmat Incident I-1997120688 — CORROSIVE LIQUIDS, N.O.S. — WASHINGTON, NC

**Citation:** PHMSA Hazmat Incident I-1997120688  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 1997-11-06  
**Published:** Not stated

Serious reporter-submitted hazardous materials transportation incident on 1997-11-06 in WASHINGTON, NC.

## Document text

PHMSA hazardous materials incident report I-1997120688.
Incident date: 1997-11-06.
Location: WASHINGTON, NC.
Mode: Highway.
Carrier/reporter: JEVIC TRANSPORTATION INC.
Shipper: SYBRON CHEM INC.
Materials: UN1760; CORROSIVE LIQUIDS, N.O.S.; hazard class 8; 0 released.
What failed: Basic Material.
How failed: Cracked.
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=Y4XNYZkZ32SCOv6RoMr8qw%3D%3D>
- Source ID: `phmsa-hazmat-incidents`
- SHA-256: `8baf78064fff5e60d2cdaff0e2bc05976e7a0b034a54dc926e8e337eb3073a15`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-13T12:55:56.545Z
- Exported: 2026-08-25T16:04:04.977Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-hazmat-incident-i-1997120688`

### Source metadata

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```