Acid spill sends staff home.FIREFIGHTERS wearing breathing apparatus tackled a chemical spillage on a Coventry industrial estate today. The incident happened at AO Elec-tronics on Dutton Road, Alderman's Green at 5am, leaving the electro-plating company totally smoke -logged. Workers were being sent home today. Ray Hughes, station officer at Foleshill Road, said: "When we arrived we saw heavy smoke coming from the roof area. Six men in breathing apparatus forced entry into the building."A thermal imaging camera was used and firefighters discovered chemicals were involved. Mr Hughes said: "There was a spillage of electroplating electroplating: see plating. electroplating Process of coating with metal by means of an electric current. Plating metal may be transferred to conductive surfaces (e.g., metals) or to nonconductive surfaces (e.g. mixture of 90 litres in total. This included six litres of sulphuric acid sulphuric acid: see sulfuric acid. of 98 per cent concentration, with 12 kg of potassium monosulphate and distilled water Noun 1. distilled water - water that has been purified by distillation H2O, water - binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; . "Nobody needed to be evacuated e·vac·u·ate v. e·vac·u·at·ed, e·vac·u·at·ing, e·vac·u·ates v.tr. 1. a. To empty or remove the contents of. b. To create a vacuum in. 2. because there was enough wind to take away the fumes fumes odorous gases and other volatile materials; inhalation of irritating fumes causes coughing and, if sufficiently severe, irreversible pulmonary edema. , which blew away over fields and were nowhere near people in the area." Company director Bob Garner said there was smoke damage but he did not know the total cost of the damage. |
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