# PHMSA Hazmat Incident I-2020040231 — SODIUM HYDROXIDE, SOLUTION — Petersburg, VA

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- **citation:** PHMSA Hazmat Incident I-2020040231
- **title:** PHMSA Hazmat Incident I-2020040231 — SODIUM HYDROXIDE, SOLUTION — Petersburg, VA
- **source type:** incident
- **agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- **status:** historical
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- **effective on:** 2020-03-19
- **summary:** Serious reporter-submitted hazardous materials transportation incident on 2020-03-19 in Petersburg, VA.
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PHMSA hazardous materials incident report I-2020040231.
Incident date: 2020-03-19.
Location: Petersburg, VA.
Mode: Highway.
Carrier/reporter: KAG WEST, LLC.
Shipper: SUFFOLK SOLUTIONS.
Materials: UN1824; SODIUM HYDROXIDE, SOLUTION; hazard class 8; 500 LGA released.
Reported failure causes: Human Error.
Reported result: Spillage, Material Entered Waterway/Storm Sewer.
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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