Article: Fall River, Mass., Officer Burned when Sodium Hydroxide Spews from Tanker.

Providence Journal, R.I. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 19--FALL RIVER, Mass. -- A spill of caustic soda outside an industrial pigments plant sent one police officer to the hospital and blocked off Quequechan Street for several hours yesterday.

The accident occurred when a worker for Univar USA, a chemical distributor on Terminal Road, in Providence, apparently failed, witnesses said, to properly seal the tanker just before it was pressurized to pump the chemical, sodium hydroxide, into the E.C. Pigments plant at 749 Quequechan St.

The result was a four-foot plume that squirted from the top of the truck and sprayed officer David ...

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