Posted on 12/11/2018 1:10:39 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A preliminary investigation has found that a gasket failure caused a chemical gas leak that forced the temporary closure of a heavily used bridge connecting Delaware and New Jersey on one of the busiest travel days of the year.
Officials with Croda Inc. said Tuesday that initial findings show that an incorrect gasket fitted on a pipe during construction of its Delaware ethylene oxide production plant failed Sunday.
The company is sending the gasket to independent experts for analysis and confirmation.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
Simple gasket screw-up shut down the bridge from New Jersey to Delaware for 6 hours on one of the busiest travel days of year
Somewhere a fat former governor is laughing.
Them dern simple gaskets... sometimes you just gots to take a whole machine apart just to replace one...
Ethylene oxide is nasty stuff. It is toxic and has a wide concentration range of explosive mixtures with air (which is why they use it in air-fuel bombs)
Tell that to the crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
Such a lovely area down there by the bridge.....
I haven’t been there for a long time, but wasn’t there a dupont chemical plant near the bridge that predated the bridge?
DuPont Chambers Works. But it’s on the Jersey side.
The title is misleading , A gasket can be simple , its the installation that takes skill and isnt always that simple. Thats why a good mechanic can make 100k a year installing “ simple gaskets”. A better headline should have said “ Gas leak shuts down bridge” and leave the ignoramic phrase “ Simple gasket” out.
I live at the base of this bridge in Pennsville NJ this was a big deal here...
Yep back in the day that Dupont plant made black powder. There were a couple of explosions. ...
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Been there that night, unbelievable traffic jam. Only warning was “Bridge closed find alternate route”. Found our way out of rundown Wilmington thanks to “On Star”.
It’s also one of the major methods for conducting sterilization of medical products.
Its so bad that the chambers they use to treat products are specifically built with weak ceilings to help direct any explosions upward.
After they pull a vacuum to vent the chamber by pulling a vacuum they still have to allow product to set between 24-48 hours to make sure that none of it is still left in the packaging.
I’ll bet when they test the gasket, they’ll find it didn’t have any asbestos in it. Those asbestos gaskets work really well.
I believe it.
Yes, but that was and is on the New Jersey side.
So maybe the logic was that since you already have one chemical plant on one side, what's the harm in having another on the other side.
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