PHMSA Hazmat Incident I-2018050018 — HYDROCHLORIC ACID — Brownsville, PA

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Incident I-2018050018PHMSA hazardous materials incident report I-2018050018. Incident date: 2018-03-06. Location: Brownsville, PA. Mode: Highway. Carrier/reporter: KUHNLE BROTHERS, INC.. Shipper: Reagent Chemical c/o Westlake Chemical. Materials: UN1789; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; hazard class 8; 5597.5 LGA released. How failed: Punctured. Reported failure causes: Vehicular Crash or Accident Damage. 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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