PHMSA Hazmat Incident I-1978020597 — SULFURIC ACID — CHICAGO, IL

Current as of 1978-02-04 Government source

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Incident I-1978020597PHMSA hazardous materials incident report I-1978020597. Incident date: 1978-02-04. Location: CHICAGO, IL. Mode: Rail. Carrier/reporter: BELT RAILWAY CO OF CHICAGO. Shipper: AMERICAN CYANAMID CO. Materials: UN1830; SULFURIC ACID; hazard class 8; 11000 LGA released. What failed: Basic Material. 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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