Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Review – CSB Publishes Final Report on Explosion, Molten Salt Eruption in Chattanooga, TN

Yesterday the Chemical Safety Board announced the publication of their final investigation report on the explosion and molten salt eruption at the TS USA liquid nitriding  facility in Chattanooga, TN in May of 2024. That incident resulted in one death, multiple fires, over $1 million in property damage, and the TS USA facility being shut down for approximately 8 months. The report identified three safety issues and produced seven recommendations to prevent future such incidents.

There are five currently open CSB chemical incident investigations. Interestingly, each those investigations are for incidents that preceded the TS USA incident.  See reader comment below.

 

For more information about the incident report, see my article at CFSN Detailed Analysis - https://patrickcoyle.substack.com/p/csb-publishes-final-report-on-explosion - subscription required.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

"There are five currently open CSB chemical incident investigations. Interestingly, each those investigations are for incidents that preceded the TS USA incident."

Not true. Only one of the open investigations preceded the TS USA incident.

 
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