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KEY ISSUES: U.S. CHEMICAL S AFETY A
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5.1.2 Line 405 Oven Temperature Con
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9.1 FM Global Guidelines...........
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Figures 1 Simplified Layout of CTA
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ACC American Chemistry Council Acro
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Executive Summary A February 20, 20
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1.0 Introduction At approximately 7
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2.0 Key Findings 1. Combustible phe
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3.0 Facility Description 3.1 CTA Ac
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eams. Nonload-bearing masonry block
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Thirteen-foot-high freestanding enc
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4.0 Process Description The product
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4.1.2 Mat-former and Baghouse In th
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Circulating fans and dampers direct
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• Manually striking baghouse bags
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5.0 Incident Description 5.1 Pre-In
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• The line was one week past due
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forklift with a semi-enclosed cab d
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panels and lights down inside the b
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occurred in the southeast corner of
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5.3.3 Firefighting Activities 5.3.3
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5.4 Incident Aftermath The CTA inci
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6.0 Understanding Combustible Dust
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As depicted in Figure 11 (Eckhoff,
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Figure 12. Mechanism for a dust fir
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7.0 Reconstructive Analysis To dete
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urned clean but otherwise intact an
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7.1.2 Other Possible Initiating Eve
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Table 3 Borden Chemical Black Pheno
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7.3 Line 405 Equipment Testing CSB
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determine if those products are haz
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that the phenolic resin could explo
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