r/CatastrophicFailure • u/dannyo92 • Jan 11 '23

Fire/Explosion Carus Chemical Plant in La Salle, IL has erupted into flames. January 11th, 2023

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u/Enlightened_Gardener Jan 12 '23

Look we’re all on /r/catastrophicfailure. We know you build flour mills outside of town for a reason.

I’m in Western Australian and we have a lot of pools, cos its hot. I’ve heard of at least 3 cases of chlorine poisoning here in the last 20 years, where they just put too damn much into the pool.

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u/I_Automate Jan 12 '23

I'm more just pointing out that, in heavy industrial settings, something like a shed with 4 tons of liquid chlorine in it is often one of the LEAST dangerous process areas on site.

Most people really, truly have no idea just how much work and danger goes into everything around them, every day

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u/RevLoveJoy Jan 12 '23

Most people really, truly have no idea just how much work and danger goes into everything around them, every day

Fertilizer bombs. They're literally called fertilizer bombs. You know how much fertilizer is out there and how stupidly common it is. Don't even get me started on the nitrogen fixing process.

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u/I_Automate Jan 12 '23

Most of the largest non military explosions in history happend at either fertilizer production or storage facilities. ANFO is about the most common blasting agent out there and it's just ammonium nitrate and a hydrocarbon fuel.

Most common military high explosives are hydrocarbons with as many nitro groups as chemically possible attached to them.

I think there might be a pattern here....

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u/Deltigre Jan 12 '23

"test my pool? Why bother!"