Liquid Nitrogen and the State Fire/HAZMAT Codes (Part III – Use and Handling)

Back in May 2020 and January 2021, I posted the first two parts of this three-part series on the hazards of Liquid Nitrogen.  These articles were prompted by the OSHA and State Fire Marshal cases involving fatalities at cattle and human sperm bank businesses.  Then in January of this year, we had the GA Food plant LN2 incident where six (6) workers lost their lives during a release of N2.  So needless to say, these two articles got a lot of attention, and yesterday after OSHA’s news release of their nearly $1M in citations to the GA business and its sanitation contractor and installer, I was reminded by a friend that I never posted Part III – Use and Handling.  So here we have the “code requirements” on the use and handling of LN2.  This section of the code is broken down into these specific requirements:

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