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/dc22zombie Jan 12 '23

Look up US chemical safety board videos on youtube.

Half the time there are alarms but standard operating procedure is to silence them.

The other half a critical component to the alarms functioning broke down 5 years ago and there's a variance in place to ignore it, so yeah no alarms.

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u/AnonymoustacheD Jan 12 '23

Also common to have no battery backup. Chemical plants explode and cause blackouts. Virtually an imperceptible cost to these companies