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| Bulk Terminal Acid Leak - April 26, 1974 |
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Gas release at the Bulk Terminals complex, Chicago, Illinois. April 26, 1974
Accident summary
Bulk Terminals was a storage tank farm with 78 tanks ranging in size up to 4900 m3. At about 12:30 hours on Friday 26 April 1974 a dull thud was heard and fumes were seen rising from the bund surrounding a 3300 m3 tank of silicon tetrachloride. It was discovered that a pressure relief valve on a 6-inch line leading to the tank had been inadvertently closed. The pressure in the system was sufficient to burst a flexible coupling in the line, shifting the piping system and cracking a 3-inch line on the tank wall. Liquid silicon tetrachloride escaped forming an irritant cloud containing hydrogen chloride gas.
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| Iroquois Theater Fire Disaster of 1903 |
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| Union Stockyard Fire of December 22, 1910 |
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| Eastland Ship Disaster of 1915 |
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Welcome To The Chicago Tunnel Company Railroad Home Pageittl
This website tells the story about a 60-mile, two-foot gauge electric railroad that operated 149 locomotives and over 3000 freight cars in small tunnels forty feet below the streets of downtown Chicago
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