# PHMSA Hazmat Incident I-1978040488 — ACETONE — BEAUMONT, TX

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- **citation:** PHMSA Hazmat Incident I-1978040488
- **title:** PHMSA Hazmat Incident I-1978040488 — ACETONE — BEAUMONT, TX
- **source type:** incident
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** historical
- **official:** true
- **published on:** Not available
- **effective on:** 1978-03-23
- **summary:** Serious reporter-submitted hazardous materials transportation incident on 1978-03-23 in BEAUMONT, TX.
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PHMSA hazardous materials incident report I-1978040488.
Incident date: 1978-03-23.
Location: BEAUMONT, TX.
Mode: Highway.
Carrier/reporter: VAN WATERS & ROGERS.
Shipper: VAN WATERS & ROGERS.
Materials: UN1090; ACETONE; hazard class 3; 700 SLB released | UN1748; CALCIUM HYPOCHLORITE, DRY OR CALCIUM HYPOCHLORITE MIXTURES DRY WITH MORE THAN 39 PERCENT AVAILABLE CHLORINE (8.8 PERCENT AVAILABLE OXYGEN); hazard class 5.1; 400 SLB released | UN1987; ALCOHOLS, N.O.S.; hazard class 3; 150 LGA released.
Reported result: Fire, Explosion.
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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