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Posted on 05/26/2026 1:35:59 PM PDT by CFW
A chemical tank ruptured at a facility in Washington state, resulting in multiple critical injuries and an unknown number of fatalities, authorities said.
The "hazardous materials incident" was reported Tuesday morning at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging, a pulp and paper mill in Longview, fire authorities said.
A tank containing white liquor ruptured at approximately 7:15 a.m., according to a joint statement from local authorities and Nippon Dynawave Packaging.
Authorities initially referred to the incident as a chemical explosion and then an implosion, before referring to it as a rupture.
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This one in Washington State.
It sounds pretty bad!
“”The incident is stable, but is in the recovery phase,” Longview Fire Battalion Chief Mike Gorsuch said during a press briefing Tuesday, calling it “tragic.”
“Recovery efforts remain underway at the facility,” he said.
The number of fatalities is undetermined at this time, Cowlitz 2 Fire & Rescue Chief Scott Goldstein said during the press briefing.
A number of personnel are missing, Goldstein said, declining to confirm how many.
Nine people at the facility suffered injuries, including chemical burns, and were transported by ambulance to area hospitals, authorities said. The injuries ranged from critical to minor, according to Goldstein.
One firefighter was also injured in the incident and has since been treated and released from a nearby hospital, according to Gorsuch.”
Something is up.
First that one chemical leak in California, that almost blew up, causing thousands of people to leave their homes, vulnerable to looters and vagrants.
Now this chemical tank rupture in Washington State.
There are many different ways one country could ‘terrorize’ another country. It’s not always as clear and obvious as 9/11. Certain influential fanatics in Iran have been over the top furious at America for the last couple of months, for one thing or another.
My favorite.
The 80,000-gallon tank was about 60% full at the time of the rupture, according to Goldstein. White liquor is a chemical mixture of sodium hydroxide, sodium sulfide and disodium carbonate used in the paper-making process, he said.
That would be a digester tank.
Basically, a pressure cooker filled with caustic soda
(Another industrial plant explosion, implosion, rupture.)
🤔🤔🤔
I have a theory that I mentioned in one of the previous explosion threads.
Over the past 10 years or so, the old “boomer” that was in charge of maintenance at almost all industrial plants has retired.
The new guy/gal (DEI and college degree in hand) ignored the old guy’s instructions regarding regular maintenance on some of the old machines. Old guy says, “This value has to be cleaned weekly; that tube gets brittle so replace it every six months; never let this machine get too hot; this temperature gauge sometimes sticks” etc.
The new guy or gal sits at their desk, plays on their phone, and does the minimal amount of maintenance required and never even looks at any notes or maintenance records.
Things go boom!
Operators, technicians and managers getting old and retiring.
Expect to see a lot more of this.
Auto correct clearly.
do we miss the regulatory system yet?
Ah. I thought it was supposed to be liquid.
I didn’t know about that one. Many of these incidents seem at first, like a local story, affecting only a few people.
There was also an incident last week, where several underwater explosive devices were found at a dock. No injuries. I don’t have the details. That story simply disappeared the next day. No follow up.
This is how Iran pushes back, cloaked but advancing just the same.
Yikes 😳
Very possible
Could be chlorine gas concerns in this mess also.
This.
Add in that most of these companies have long since changed over to "absentee landlords" - korporations that leveraged them as financial tools, and those absentee landlords don't care to pay the necessary costs for the facilities nor the staff.
Back when I was in my mid-20’s I did ultrasonic flaw detection and analysis for a living. We measured all kinds of different parts of pulp and paper mills’ and power plants’ boiler tubes and chemical tanks, etc.
At Rome Kraft (a paper mill in Rome Georgia) I measured a sulfuric acid tank and found large areas of the tank that were as thin as a dime (.050 inch thick). It should have been .250 thick at a minimum. I reported my findings, of course to Rome Kraft and of course the data was documented at my employer.
A couple of weeks later, that tank leaked sulfuric acid and it drained down and mixed with another chemical (can’t remember what chemical it was), but several people were hospitalized and one older gentleman died.
Several years later after I had left the company to go to college, I was informed my employer supposedly had destroyed their evidence of my inspection. Not sure what ever became of the situation. I remember Rome Kraft was quite upset with the inspection results, but said they would have to get railroad cars of sulfuric acid to use until a replacement tank could be installed.
NaOH solution....mmmm.... that’ll rot you out pretty good.
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