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VINYL CHLORIDE SAFETY ASSOCIATION MEETING October 20-21, 1983
New Orleans, Louisiana
:>ber 20, 1983
hursday
Subject
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Registration and Coffee
10:00 .m. OLD CASE HISTORIES
Thompson Chemical Explosion 1964 (Group discussion on practices w with sight glasses)
Hooker Burlington Plant Fire 1968
Goodyear Plaquemine Plant Fire 1972 (Results of corrective action /T) taken to prevent a recurrence) ^
OxicMLorination Explosion
BFGoodrich Altona Sphere Release/^
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VCM storage)
+5 a.m. Coffee Break
0 p.m. CURRENT CASE HISTORIES
Formosa Plastics' Baton Rouge VCM Tank Car Loading Fire July 30, 1983
Accident While Cleaning a Heat Exchanger with High Pressure Water
Bursting of a Resin Hopper Truck
Rupture of a VCM Line
VCM Loading Pump Housing Failure
Discussion Leader
J. T. Barr Air Products
J. A. King Occidental Chemical C. D. Langlois BFGoodrich Chemical
B. Reynolds PPG H. Waltemate BFGoodrich Chemical
W ."'Huger Formosa Plastics J. A. King Occidental Chemical J. Wallace Esso Chemical J. Wallace Esso Chemical L. White PPG
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