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VINYL CHLORIDE SAFETY ASSOCIATION MEETING October 20-21, 1983 New Orleans, Louisiana October 20, 1983 Time Subject 8:00-8:30 a m. Registration and Coffee 8:30-10:00 .m. OLD CASE HISTORIES Thompson Chemical Explosion 1964 (Group discussion on practices with sight glasses) Hooker Burlington Plant Fire 1968 Goodyear Plaquemine Plant Fire 1972 (Results of Corrective Action Taken to Prevents Recurrence) Over-Pressurization of a PVC Reactor Oxichlorination Explosion BFGoodrich Altona Sphere Release (Update of revisions made with VCM storage) 10:30-10:45 a.m. Coffee Break 10:45-12:00 p.m. CURRENT CASE HISTORIES Formosa Plastics' Baton Rouge VCM Tank Car Loading Fire July 30, 1983 Bursting of a Resin Hopper Truck Rupture of a VCM line Esso Chemical VCM Loading Pump Housing Failure Conoco1s 1982 VCM Tank Car Derailment and Clean-up in Texas Other Current Case Histories Discussion Leader J. T. Barr Air Products J. A. King Occidental Chemical C. D. Langlois BFGoodrich Chemical P. Rangnes Norsk Hydro B. Reynolds PPG H. Waltemate BFGoodrich Chemical W. Hager Formosa Plastics J. Wallace Esso Chemical J. Wallace - L. White PPG D. Ashby Conoco Group OCC 5185 J 2- - October 20, 1983 (Cont'd) Time Subject Discussion Leader 12:00-1:30 p.m. Lunch Vinyl Institute Roy T. Gottesman Vinyl Institute 1:30-3:00 p .m. HEALTH Angio Sarcoma Update J. T. Barr Air Products Similarities of Plants with Multiple Cases of Angio Sarcoma (Group discussion) J. T. Barr Air Products M. N. Johnson BFGoodrich Chemical PVC Dust J. T. Vaughan ICI 3:00-3:15 p ID Coffee Break 3:15-4:30 p m. SAFETY EQUIPMENT Area Monitoring System, Leak Detectors and Personnel Monitoring Equipment M. Nevill Dow Chemical Valve Position Indicator Switches (Response to questionnaire) J. H. McCulley Conoco OCC 5186 / -3- October 21, 1983 Time Subject Discussion Leader 8:00-8:30 a .m. Business Meeting -Election of Officers -Selection of 1984 Meeting Site -Vinyl Institute and Interaction with VCSA 8:30-9:30 a .m. SAFETY PROGRAMS Safety Performance Assessment J. T. Vaughan ICI Plant Evacuation - Planning and Training T. M. Jones BFGoodrich Chemical 9:30-10:00 .m. PROCESS SAFETY Controlling Runaway Reactions and Emergency Power (Results of questionnaire) M. J. Bate Esso Chemical A. Peterson Georgia-Pacific 10:00-10:15 a.m. Coffee Break 10:15-12:00 p.m. ENVIRONMENTAL - REGULATORY Handling VCM Waste from Small Pilot Plants (Results of questionnaire) Update on EPA-OSHA Court Action (Group discussion) Regulatory Update J. Wallace Esso Chemical W. C. Holbrook BFGoodrich Chemical W. C. Holbrook BFGoodrich Chemical 12:00-2:00 p .m. LUNCH Livingston, Louisiana Sept. 28, 1983 Derailment Involving Seven Tank Cars of VCM Captain W. T. Poe Louisiana State Police 3509q/kp 9/1/83 Adjourn OCC 5187