[labnetwork] Titanium hazard

[Morrison, Richard H., Jr.]

That is a good point, we are trying to reproduce what happened and static is a good theory. The trash can was lined with a plastic bag.

Rick


From: Aebersold,Julia W. [mailto:julia.aebersold at louisville.edu]
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 2:41 PM
To: Morrison, Richard H., Jr.; labnetwork at mtl.mit.edu
Subject: RE: Titanium hazard

Did you have a statically charged trash can? Or did the wiping action charged the towels with IPA?

Cheers!

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Subject: [labnetwork] Titanium hazard

Hi Everyone,

Last week one of the staff was wiping off some evaporator parts that were covered with Titanium metal. He was using texwipes soaked with IPA. He tossed the texwipes in the trash then accidentally dropped some wipes saturated with IPA on top of them and a fire started. It self extinguished after 1 minute but it melted the bottom of a plastic trash can.

Have any of you had that happen or something similar? Needless to say this is very alarming and I need to understand what could have caused this and develop a corrective action plan.

Rick


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