Safety and Environmentally-Relevant Incidents
Accidents and environmentally-relevant incidents can never be completely ruled out whatever efforts are made. At WACKER, we make sure we learn from such events to prevent their recurrence.
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Groupwide Safety and Environmentally-Relevant Incidents in 2008 | |
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Burghausen, |
Escape and ignition of silane due to a leaky flange connection to a silane heater. An employee extinguished the small fire immediately. The plant’s firefighters contained the released silane. |
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Burghausen, |
Escape of hydrogen chloride gas due to inadvertent opening of a pressurized reactor. The facility was immediately shut down. One person was hospitalized. |
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Burghausen, |
Escape of hydrogen chloride gas due to a leaky rubber lining. |
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Burghausen, |
Escape of silane due to a leaky flange connection. The silane reacted with humidity to form hydrogen chloride. The plant’s firefighters doused the gas cloud with water cannons. One employee was sent to the hospital for further examination. |
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Burghausen, |
Sludge overflow in sewage plant due to heavy rain and other causes (including unusual sludge sedimentation). The monitored threshold values for suspended solids (SS), adsorbable organic halides (AOX), chemical oxygen demand (COD), biological oxygen demand (BOD) and phosphorus were temporarily exceeded. The authorities tolerated the higher values until the cause could be eliminated. The sludge overflow did not impair water quality. |
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Groupwide Safety and Environmentally-Relevant Incidents in 2007 | |
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Burghausen, |
Escape of hydrogen chloride gas due to failure of a ball cock. |
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Burghausen, |
Escape of hydrogen chloride gas during cleaning. |
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Burghausen, |
Escape of hydrogen chloride gas due to a defective seal. |