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For those who don’t know, hydroflouric acid is REALLY BAD SHIT. It will go through your skin and not stop till it neutralizes by dissolving your bones. The burn fis unimaginable.

[–] • 3 pts

Hi, HAZMAT specialist here. Can confirm, HF is one of the nastier ones out there, up there with fuming nitric. It leeches into your bones.

It doesn't burn you like what you see in Aliens movies- it gets on your skin and seeps into your bone marrow, then leeches all of the calcium out of the bones. A black mark will form beneath the affected area, and necrosis is inevitable unless you got to a high haz hospital immediately.

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Thanks fren, much better said than my personal experiences.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Also the same shit they put in water and tooth paste and tell you is fluoride

[–] • 3 pts

This shit is out of control. News doesn’t say how fire started. Wtf happened. Just mindlessly reports the situation and beats a dead horse about it. Too bad no journalist will actually investigate anymore.

[–] • 1 pt

Glad I just work with hydrochloric

[–] • 1 pt

DEI in the woke-place, lowering standards of hiring and qualifications. Education being absolute shit and nothing but a focus on sex and escape - what we have here is "normalization of deviance" .

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Seems to be a lot of chem spills lately is it just higher reporting or more incidents?

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More incidents. I work in the field. Last month, just our company alone (a very large environment company) had an increase in reportable incidents of about 500%, compared to this far into the year last year. We had to hold an extra long safety meeting this month specifically to address this massive increase in incidents. This includes drivers getting into accidents and facility staff/field chemists fucking up and getting hurt or doing property damage.

People are making dumber decisions and cutting corners they shouldn't be. What happens: Worker A cuts a corner over and over. Nothing bad happens, so eventually he's like "Why is this even a corner, fuck it, it's easier this way". Then, the perfect storm of variables shows up, and BOOM, you have a chemical spill or an explosion or an idiot climbing into a machine he shouldn't be.

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Well i wonder if its not done with intent hiding behind incompetence and "neglect" as usual. Seems like america is experiencing chem warfare probably because you have to many guns. But ill admit that almost feels like a tin foil hat theory.

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I can't say for sure outside of my region in the states. My team is very small, we haven't had a recordable incident in 8 years...

But our sister offices scattered around the region? Fucking atrocious, and at that safety meeting, we saw the graphs.

Massive spike in incidents shortly after covid began. Another massive spike in late 2021, when the jab mandate was still on the table- I imagine a lot of good employees left. NPCs remained. NPCs are retarded, they make dumb mistakes, and in this field, a single dumb mistake doesn't just mean "you get a talking to by management", it means "HOLY SHIT YOU BLEW UP JEFF, WHAT THE FUCK DUDE?!" or something equally problematic.

I was ALMOST involved in a recordable- a new employee, a field chemist, had packaged a vial of some kind of sodium compound... in a drum full of water. If you know basic chemistry, you might see where this is going.

When I picked up said drum, the vial inside came open somehow, and the sodium was exposed to water. I felt it get really hot, realized what was about to happen and drop kicked the fucking thing. The lid burst off of it as I kicked it, ended up with some flames on my (thankfully flame-retardant uniform). Normally, sodium compounds like this would be packed in a drum of mineral oil, so that if the sodium container inside busted open somehow, it CAN'T react with the oil.

The guy who almost blew my ass up is still working here. I watch him like a fucking hawk, because I don't trust him. I think he may get me killed one day.

Guess what color his skin is.