PHMSA Hazmat Incident E-2016080267 — SODIUM HYDROXIDE, SOLUTION — BATON ROUGE, LA

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Incident E-2016080267PHMSA hazardous materials incident report E-2016080267. Incident date: 2016-08-05. Location: BATON ROUGE, LA. Mode: Highway. Carrier/reporter: Quality Carriers Inc.. Shipper: Formosa Plastics Corp. Materials: UN1824; SODIUM HYDROXIDE, SOLUTION; hazard class 8; 262.5 LGA released. What failed: Discharge Valve or Coupling. How failed: Leaked. Reported failure causes: Loose Closure, Component, or Device. 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.#

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