Chemical Incident Reporting – Week of 10-21-23

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Lutz, FL – 10-25-23

Local news report: Here

Chemical spill at pool supply company. No injuries, minimal damage

Not CSB reportable.

Certainly not ‘liquid chlorine’ as chlorine is only liquid under pressure or low temperature (less than -27° F), probably sodium hypochlorite (bleach) a typical chlorinating agent (hence ‘liquid chlorine’ in the vernacular) for swimming pools. Still dangerous because it reacts with lots of different stuff (including other pool treatment chemicals) to release chlorine gas.