I was cleaning out a chemical storage closet at work. A hydrogen chloride container leaked out onto some iodine containers. I picked one up (bare handed) and sat it down in the grass. About thirty seconds later, I noticed the steam boiling up from around the bottom of the container. This is about 45 seconds worth of contact.
I thought it was terrifying because this was a footprint of someone who was lurking around your house, looking through your windows.
That sounds like poor storage and containment procedures. You contacted OSHA about the incident, right?
By OSHA, you mean Lemmy right?
Then yes, OSHA was contacted.
This is the family farm. I AM THE OSHA
chemical storage closet at work…A hydrogen chloride container leaked out onto some iodine containers.
Yep, sounds like a typical day on a typical family farm
Mike Rowe: oCEaN!
(hold for laughter and applause)Mike can fuck right off.
Can, should, and hopefully will. His charming smile and faux-liberal persona on dirty jobs did insurmountable damage to worker’s rights by slow-walking the youth to believing that safety and unions only slow down otherwise reasonable progress.
There should be one-episode reboot where Mike gets to perform blue collar tasks with machinery that’s missing all legally required safety labels and fail-safes. Then he’s only given a description of what he’s supposed to accomplish with zero warnings or regulations. At the end of the episode, Mike and whatever pieces of him that remain gets to receive their paycheck after all debts are settled at the company store. That final amount is what he gets to use for rent and food for the week.
Let’s see what peripety the ground beef version of Mike Rowe finds in his anagnorisis of promoting the death and dismemberment of his own fan base.
My dad was a farmer. I AM AN ORPHAN.
Edit: Ok, I feel bad. But like… I know one dumbass with a cough that won’t go away (7 years and counting) because they wouldn’t effing listen to me about DE, another who rolled his tractor on to himself and died. Don’t take it lightly man. The bill always comes due. We all do what we have to, lord knows I’ve done some dumb shit, but it ain’t cute to dismiss it.
HCl‽ Jaysus…
Depends on the concentration, but usually not something you want on yourself.
I know. I’ve worked with it myself, and I once accidentally inhaled a small volume of it.
A-Level chemistry, innit.
Everyone’s done it at some point. That’s how you know not to do it again haha.
Yeah, but it would have been nice for my teacher to say that the reaction produces HCl gas BEFORE telling everyone to perform it.
Yeah. That’s their fault. Definitely should have said something.
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But as a chemist (sadly not in the lab anymore, all computer stuff) some of that stuff seems pretty scary. Although I hope you were not the teacher. Also if it wasn’t you, that teacher does not know how to teach.
In grad school you’re not taught how to teach, but have to teach students, and I would never have let any of this come close to happening (or at least make it fully known “do not inhale concentrated acid”). Also I know it was probably years ago, but now if someone doesn’t wear the correct PPE, they’re kicked out.
