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<blockquote data-quote="pickup" data-source="post: 504702"><p>I can totally understand the above viewpoint but I can also see the other point of view. What about the poison, there were drums leaking, which ones? What was the poison? Did the people working around the trailer even know about the hazardous materials.? And let me give you a hypothetical situation, suppose this trailer contained poisonous gas compressed in canisters? Upon hitting the ground, the valves loosen and the gas is visibly leaking? Does somebody hop in there and close the valve to minimize the damage or does everyone get as far away from there and wait for the hazmat team to show up? Okay, in this case the poison was liquid and whether or not it was leaking, if there is any leakage , you have to assume it is the poison. Liquid can turn to vapor and be breathed in. So, I am glad nobody got hurt, but it could have gone wrong. If everyone moved away from the scene and waited for a more costly response to this problem, definitely nobody would have got hurt but it would have disrupted operations, and would have been costly. </p><p></p><p>And again , depends on the poison, some stuff is marginally poisonous. Did you know concentrated mustard(the kind that goes on a hot dog) is poisonous and must be labeled as such if in a 55 gallon drum for transport. If a drum like that were leaking, big deal. but other stuff, different story. There should be procedures in place and known by all before such an incident happens.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pickup, post: 504702"] I can totally understand the above viewpoint but I can also see the other point of view. What about the poison, there were drums leaking, which ones? What was the poison? Did the people working around the trailer even know about the hazardous materials.? And let me give you a hypothetical situation, suppose this trailer contained poisonous gas compressed in canisters? Upon hitting the ground, the valves loosen and the gas is visibly leaking? Does somebody hop in there and close the valve to minimize the damage or does everyone get as far away from there and wait for the hazmat team to show up? Okay, in this case the poison was liquid and whether or not it was leaking, if there is any leakage , you have to assume it is the poison. Liquid can turn to vapor and be breathed in. So, I am glad nobody got hurt, but it could have gone wrong. If everyone moved away from the scene and waited for a more costly response to this problem, definitely nobody would have got hurt but it would have disrupted operations, and would have been costly. And again , depends on the poison, some stuff is marginally poisonous. Did you know concentrated mustard(the kind that goes on a hot dog) is poisonous and must be labeled as such if in a 55 gallon drum for transport. If a drum like that were leaking, big deal. but other stuff, different story. There should be procedures in place and known by all before such an incident happens. [/QUOTE]
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