Text For Citation: 01 Item/Group: 030 Hazard: BURNS

Section 5(a)(1) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970: The employer did not furnish employment and a place of employment which were free from recognized hazards that were causing or likely to cause death or serious physical harm to employees in that employees were exposed to: Employees were exposed to the hazard of inhaling hydrogen fluoride vapors or being burned by contact with hydrofluoric acid at the following location: Alky Unit, HF Unloading Area, transport truck(s) containing HF (acid) have restricted access to the HF Unloading Area. The present procedure to unload HF (acid) at this location requires the HF (acid) truck to be backed from a residential street, across a four (4) lane city street, through a narrow gate and approximately 200 feet down a narrow roadway north of the Alky Unit which is adjacent to the Champlin Refinery. Employees would be exposed to inhalation and/or dermal contact with the HF (acid) should a traffic accident or collision with a fixed object cause the HF transport truck to rupture and leak HF (acid). One means of abatement among other methods is to provide an alternate HF unloading area i.e. south of the Alky Unit's new acid storage tank (A-V31).