I just hope I can convince other safety professionals that atmospheric storage tanks containing flammable liquids are EXTREMELY DANGEROUS and deserve our respect when it comes to DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, FACILITY SITING, and MAINTENANCE (e.g. MI), and RELIEF PROTECTION. I recently had a lawyer attempt to make an argument that if these tanks were so dangerous then why did OSHA exempt them from their PSM standard? Yeah lets let politics protect us from this…
NOTE: this was a waste water tank at a fracking site so it was not even a pure flammable liquid! Launch takes place around the 30 second mark of the video.
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