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From: DCHAS-L Discussion List [mailto:dchas-l**At_Symbol_Here**MED.CORNELL..EDU] On Behalf Of Eric Clark
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015 7:58 AM
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Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] what to do - gas cylinder safety
Good question.
This is the compressed version of the answer:
Document Name: CGA P- 1 : Safe Handling of Compressed Gases
CFR Section(s) : 29 CFR 1 9 1 0. 1 1 (b)
Standards Body: Compressed Gas Association
3.2.6
Use suitable hand truck, fork truck, roll platform or similar device with cylinder firmly secured for transporting
and unloading.
Eric Clark, MS, CHMM, CCHO
Safety Officer, Public Health Scientist III
Los Angeles County Public Health Laboratory
Why is it ill advised?
Nitrogen is used to purge and dry some conduit
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ADVANCED CHEMICAL SAFETY, Inc.
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SAN DIEGO CA 92195
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Please contact me before sending any packages or courier delivery. The address for those items is:
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I was in New York City, recently, and came across two liquid nitrogen dewars on a street corner. One had a regulator on it and tubing running into a manhole in the street. I think the dewars had been there awhile as one had been tagged with graffiti. No one in sight that might have anything to do with the dewars.
Gas cylinders get "managed" in creative ways, it would seem. I guess chaining to a tree satisfies the "prevent from falling" requirement. Rolling along the pavement - ill-advised, certainly. I wonder what they were using the nitrogen for.
Debbie M. Decker, CCHO, ACS Fellow
Chair, Division of Chemical Health and Safety
University of California, Davis
(530)754-7964
(530)304-6728
Birkett's hypothesis: "Any chemical reaction
that proceeds smoothly under normal conditions,
can proceed violently in the presence of an idiot."
