Workers Exposed To Chemical Leak At Intel Plant

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I guess now would be a bad time to start making "Intel inside" jokes.

A chemical leak at Intel Corp's manufacturing complex in Arizona has been contained and two workers were taken to hospital for observation, a spokesman for the chipmaker said on Monday. During a tool installation in a basement at the sprawling plant southeast of Phoenix a tube was severed, leading to a spill of around 100 gallons (379 liters) of ammonium hydroxide, said Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy.
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Funny how they keep calling it "ammonium hydroxide" as if it is some mysterious, super dangerous chemical. It's ammonia solution, just like what people use to clean their windows and mirrors, all be it a little more concentrated that the home use stuff. It's used in large quantities all over the world every day. It would be dangerous to inhale too much of the vapors, yes, and could kill with a massive overdose, but people would have to override their instincts to stop inhaling it, or be unconscious, for that to happen. It's certainly not going to send some huge cloud of poison gas into the air and then come down and kill a neighborhood. They make it sound all dangerous, when it isn't. "Ammonium hydroxide" is less dangerous than gasoline.
 
dgingeri said:
Funny how they keep calling it "ammonium hydroxide" as if it is some mysterious, super dangerous chemical. It's ammonia solution, just like what people use to clean their windows and mirrors, all be it a little more concentrated that the home use stuff. It's used in large quantities all over the world every day. It would be dangerous to inhale too much of the vapors, yes, and could kill with a massive overdose, but people would have to override their instincts to stop inhaling it, or be unconscious, for that to happen. It's certainly not going to send some huge cloud of poison gas into the air and then come down and kill a neighborhood. They make it sound all dangerous, when it isn't. "Ammonium hydroxide" is less dangerous than gasoline.
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Watch out dude... a ton of people die because of Dihydrogen Monoxide. Now that... is a mysterious & super dangerous chemical. its colorless, tasteless, and you can't smell it. You can never be too cautious.
 
wow - talk about media fail. Workers get exposed to much much much more serious stuff everyday and get crippled for life or die. Chemicals, shock and arc flash, heights, falling, confined spaces... But because it's Intel - we make national headlines? Must be a slow news day...
 
At least it wasn't something worse like Hydrofluoric acid or some of the other nastier ones used in semiconductor mfg.
 
dgingeri said:
Funny how they keep calling it "ammonium hydroxide" as if it is some mysterious, super dangerous chemical. It's ammonia solution, just like what people use to clean their windows and mirrors, all be it a little more concentrated that the home use stuff. It's used in large quantities all over the world every day. It would be dangerous to inhale too much of the vapors, yes, and could kill with a massive overdose, but people would have to override their instincts to stop inhaling it, or be unconscious, for that to happen. It's certainly not going to send some huge cloud of poison gas into the air and then come down and kill a neighborhood. They make it sound all dangerous, when it isn't. "Ammonium hydroxide" is less dangerous than gasoline.
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Ammonia, even a little bit will fuck you up. If someone tried to bring it to market as a household cleaner today, it wouldn't be allowed. Industrial accidents involving high concentrations of ammonia gas have this habit of dissolving people. Had a professor relate his incident in an ammonia leak, almost instantly his throat swelled up and couldn't breath and his vision went blurry. If someone didn't manage to pull him out, he would have died in under a minute.
 
jpm100 said:
Ammonia, even a little bit will fuck you up. If someone tried to bring it to market as a household cleaner today, it wouldn't be allowed. Industrial accidents involving high concentrations of ammonia gas have this habit of dissolving people. Had a professor relate his incident in an ammonia leak, almost instantly his throat swelled up and couldn't breath and his vision went blurry. If someone didn't manage to pull him out, he would have died in under a minute.
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Ammonia <> ammonium hydroxide. Sometime you come across refrigeration equipment that uses pressurized anhydrous ammonia, it's nasty stuff. Ammonium hydroxide is pretty noxious (we use some in my plant), but it's not anywhere near as dangerous.
 
pigster said:
Ammonia <> ammonium hydroxide. Sometime you come across refrigeration equipment that uses pressurized anhydrous ammonia, it's nasty stuff. Ammonium hydroxide is pretty noxious (we use some in my plant), but it's not anywhere near as dangerous.
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I was responding to the mention of Ammonia as 'safe' because its a household cleaner. Its really a legacy product that wouldn't be allowed today either via regs. or civil suits against a manufacturers much like Aspirin.
 
jpm100 said:
I was responding to the mention of Ammonia as 'safe' because its a household cleaner. Its really a legacy product that wouldn't be allowed today either via regs. or civil suits against a manufacturers much like Aspirin.
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If there's a ban on ammonia doesn't that mean that people aren't allowed to pee anymore?
 
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