[ATOMIC_PUNK]

I remember a cooling line blowing n a unit we used to manufacture where i worked it was little more than a bit of glycol the company decided they needed to call in a haz-mat team to clean up it cost a fortune and a hefty fine too 2 guys got doused with it and didn't hurt them a bit ...

Then there was the thermometers placed in a box for storage and subsequently had another box set on top of them they broke once again haz-mat was called another hefty fine when the box could have been wrapped in a haz blanket and disposed of properly they put themselves out of buisiness just by existing the company was perpetually in panic mode every time some sneezed too loud

It was comical at times to watch the overlords sweat it out over everyday things that happened in an air conditioning shop !

[Errant]

We had some phenol dry out once and had to call EOD to remove and detonate it.

Oh, and a drainage pipe broke and was discovered after about 50 liters of out of date, disposed of human blood flooded the area.

And someone filled the autoclave with petri dishes to be destroyed and I accidentally opened it, thinking it was my stuff inside, cooling down. I was sick for two weeks after inhaling the vapors.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Once upon a time, back before people were quite so paranoid my company had a group of us cleaning out the junk room which had flooded.

This room had been used to store stuff since the 1940's and there were all kinds of things in there, some of them kind of cool. But one thing I will always remember is the crumbling cardboard box that someone was getting ready to throw on the burn pile before noticing the faded printing on it. That crumbling box held about five pounds of cyanide powder.

It was put down carefully and we called the plant manager who came and took charge of it. He double bagged it, told us to go shower and change our jumpsuits and that was that.

I wonder how many reams of paperwork would need to be filled out now days.

[SatinDoll]

I used to work at the Trojan Nuclear Plant in Oregon. We never had any incident such as you relate, but there was a rather odd incident in Portland, fifty miles away, and Trojan got roped into it.

Someone found an abandonned van loaded up with radio isotopes. Of course those police in Portland were certain we folks as Trojan had something to do with this! Who else but a nuclear power plant would let those radioactive materials get loose on an unsuspecting public!

We had no idea where the isotopes could have come from, though someone did suggest contacting the Oregon Health Sciences University, up on Pill Hill.

Yeah, they were missing a van. The driver was later found at home, sleeping off a drunk.