# PHMSA Hazmat Incident I-1980011000 — POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE, SOLUTION — AVON, IN

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- **citation:** PHMSA Hazmat Incident I-1980011000
- **title:** PHMSA Hazmat Incident I-1980011000 — POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE, SOLUTION — AVON, IN
- **source type:** incident
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** historical
- **official:** true
- **published on:** Not available
- **effective on:** 1979-12-10
- **summary:** Serious reporter-submitted hazardous materials transportation incident on 1979-12-10 in AVON, IN.
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PHMSA hazardous materials incident report I-1980011000.
Incident date: 1979-12-10.
Location: AVON, IN.
Mode: Rail.
Carrier/reporter: CONSOLIDATED RAIL CORP(CONRAIL.
Shipper: INTERNATIONAL MINERALS & CHEM.
Materials: UN1814; POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE, SOLUTION; hazard class 8; 10000 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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