The Sticky Cost of Skipping Inspection

Why inspect tanks? Why indeed. On January 15, 1919, a crowded section of this city was rocked by a massive tidal wave, not of water but of molasses. The spill occurred when a holding tank lost structural integrity and burst. Over two-million gallons of sticky, brown syrup inundated the city’s streets, killed citizens and horses, [...]

By |2017-07-11T11:39:51-05:00June 6th, 2017|Where in the World|0 Comments

A Preventable Catastrophe

On April 3, 2017, an explosion occurred on the premises of Loy-Lange Box Co., a cardboard box plant in St. Louis, MO. The blast launched a 2,000-pound steam storage tank more than four-hundred feet in the air until it crashed into the roof of a nearby linen factory seconds later. Four people died as a [...]

By |2020-06-03T12:37:32-05:00May 6th, 2017|State of Inspection|0 Comments
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