Bad Chemistry: Mixing Cleaning Products

“Ignorance is not too dangerous. If you combine it with power, then this is a toxic mix.”  — Yuvai Noah Harari Not surprisingly, eighteen of the thirty incidents in Volume 3 of the Chemical Safety Board’s series on incident reports addressed incidents at refineries and large chemical complexes. One incident in Volume 3, though, was [...]

By |2025-11-06T11:13:32-06:00August 14th, 2025|Chemicals, Craft Distillery Safety, Process Safety, Workplace Safety|Comments Off on Bad Chemistry: Mixing Cleaning Products

A Fatal Cleaning Incident: Familiarity Breeds …

“While devastated at this unimaginable loss, we are so very proud that Ryan died while trying to protect his fellow employees and restaurant patrons.”  — family of Ryan Baldera On November 7, 2019, a restaurant employee in Burlington, Massachusetts was overcome by fumes from a “strong chemical cleaning agent” and died. Thirteen others were taken [...]

By |2025-01-17T10:27:53-06:00November 14th, 2019|Chemicals, Current Events, Workplace Safety|Comments Off on A Fatal Cleaning Incident: Familiarity Breeds …
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