A poultry plant evacuates and elementary school shelters-in-place after an ammonia leak in this week’s edition of the Ammonia Week in Review… Employees Safe After Ammonia Leak at Abbotsford Poultry Plant – “Currently, we’re just responding to an ammonia leak. At this point, it doesn’t pose a risk to anybody in the vicinity, but we’re just monitoring and have […]
Two businesses and a school are locked down after an ammonia leak in this week’s edition of the Ammonia Week in Review… Anhydrous Ammonia Leak at Baltimore Food Plant Causes Evacuations, School Lockdown – An anhydrous ammonia leak at Green Gourmet Foods caused two business to be evacuated, a school to be placed on lockdown and sent three firefighters to […]
The International Institute of Ammonia Refrigeration (IIAR) recently published Low Charge Ammonia Refrigeration Management (ARM-LC) Guidelines, to provide guidance to owners, contractors, and manufacturers of ammonia refrigeration systems with a total inventory of less than 500 lbs of ammonia. Peter Thomas, P.E. played an instrumental role in developing these guidelines that will serve our industry […]
The Stanislaus County Department of Environmental Resources and Risk Management Professionals co-hosted a complimentary, one-day workshop at in Modesto, California on Wednesday, September 26, 2018. The workshop’s intent was to “provide insight and tips for addressing essential technical and regulatory challenges associated with current and evolving program requirements.” Peter Thomas, Resource Compliance President and […]
Entire town in Iowa evacuates when a valve breaks on a 30,000 gallon anhydrous ammonia tank in this week’s edition of the Ammonia Week in Review… Ammonia Leak Evacuates Aurelia – An anhydrous ammonia leak from a 30,000 gallon tank at First Cooperative Association in Aurelia, detected at about 10 a.m. Monday, forced an evacuation of the town for […]
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