{"operation":"document","citation":"ERG 2024 Guide 111","title":"Guide 111: Mixed Load/Unidentified Cargo","source_type":"guidance","agency":"U.S. DOT / Transport Canada / SICT","status":"guidance","official":true,"published_on":"2024-04-04","effective_on":null,"summary":"ERG2024 response Guide 111: Mixed Load/Unidentified Cargo.","machine_formats":{"json":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-erg-2024-guide-111.json","markdown":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-erg-2024-guide-111.md"},"app_url":"https://regulus.evalyn.ai/document/phmsa-erg-2024-guide-111","source_url":"https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/erg/guide?number=111","body":"Guides (orange section)\nGUIDE\n111\nMixed Load/Unidentified Cargo\nPOTENTIAL HAZARDS\nFIRE OR EXPLOSION\n•\nMay explode from heat, shock, friction or contamination.\n•\nMay react violently or explosively on contact with air, water or foam.\n•\nMay be ignited by heat, sparks or flames.\n•\nVapors may travel to source of ignition and flash back.\n•\nContainers may explode when heated.\n•\nRuptured cylinders may rocket.\n•\n•\n•\n•\n•\nHEALTH\nInhalation, ingestion or contact with substance may cause severe injury, infection, disease or death.\nHigh concentration of gas may cause asphyxiation without warning.\nContact may cause burns to skin and eyes.\nFire or contact with water may produce irritating, toxic and/or corrosive gases.\nRunoff from fire control or dilution water may cause environmental contamination.\nPUBLIC SAFETY\nCALL 911. Then call emergency response telephone number on shipping paper. If shipping paper\nnot available or no answer, refer to appropriate telephone number listed on the inside back cover.\nKeep unauthorized personnel away.\nStay upwind, uphill and/or upstream.\n•\n•\n•\nPROTECTIVE CLOTHING\n•\nWear positive pressure self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA).\n•\nStructural firefighters' protective clothing provides thermal protection but only limited chemical protection.\nEVACUATION\nImmediate precautionary measure\n•\nIsolate spill or leak area for at least 100 meters (330 feet) in all directions.\nFire\n•\nIf tank, rail tank car or highway tank is involved in a fire, ISOLATE for 800 meters (1/2 mile) in all\ndirections; also, consider initial evacuation for 800 meters (1/2 mile) in all directions.\nPage 152\nERG 2024\n\nMixed Load/Unidentified Cargo\nGUIDE\n111\nEMERGENCY RESPONSE\nFIRE\nCAUTION: Material may react with extinguishing agent.\nSmall Fire\n•\nDry chemical, CO2, water spray or regular foam.\nLarge Fire\n•\nWater spray, fog or regular foam.\n•\n•\nIf it can be done safely, move undamaged containers away from the area around the fire.\nFire Involving Tanks\nCool containers with flooding quantities of water until well after fire is out.\n•\nDo not get water inside containers.\n•\nWithdraw immediately in case of rising sound from venting safety devices or discoloration of tank.\n•\nALWAYS stay away from tanks in direct contact with flames.\nSPILL OR LEAK\n•\nDo not touch or walk through spilled material.\n•\nELIMINATE all ignition sources (no smoking, flares, sparks or flames) from immediate area.\n•\nAll equipment used when handling the product must be grounded.\n•\nKeep combustibles (wood, paper, oil, etc.) away from spilled material.\n•\nUse water spray to reduce vapors or divert vapor cloud drift. Avoid allowing water runoff to contact spilled\nmaterial.\n•\nPrevent entry into waterways, sewers, basements or confined areas.\nSmall Spill\n•\nPick up with sand or other non-combustible absorbent material and place into containers for later\ndisposal.\nLarge Spill\n•\nDike far ahead of liquid spill for later disposal.\nFIRST AID\nRefer to the “General First Aid” section.\nERG 2024\nPage 153","truncated":false,"body_characters":2984}