Eric Newman
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This initial investigation from the U.S.
Chemical Safety Board has been in the works since the spill happened May 26th.
On that morning, some 900,000 gallons of heated caustic chemicals known as white liquor spilled when a storage tank failed at the Longview Washington paper mill.
The spill killed 11 employees and injured eight others.
The new report shows that 10 months before the
Incident, safety inspectors told the company the chemical tank was unsafe and it should be repaired.
Those chemicals inside the tank are corrosive to metals and the tank's walls were thinning.
The investigation is ongoing.
The new report doesn't include consequences, but it provides the clearest picture yet of what happened.
For NPR News, I'm Eric Newman.
Emergency vehicles were coming and going from a paper facility for the company Nippon Dynawave on Tuesday morning.
According to officials, the accident involved the rupture of a tank of a chemical compound called white liquor that's involved in the papermaking process.
Mike Gorsuch is the City of Longview Fire Battalion Chief.
Officials did not provide additional details about the victims, and they said it's too early to know the specific cause of the accident.
For NPR News, I'm Eric Newman in Longview, Washington.
Emergency vehicles were coming and going from a paper facility for the company Nippon Dynawave on Tuesday morning.
According to officials, the accident involved the rupture of a tank of a chemical compound called white liquor that's involved in the papermaking process.
Mike Gorsuch is the City of Longview Fire Battalion Chief.
Officials did not provide additional details about the victims, and they said it's too early to know the specific cause of the accident.
For NPR News, I'm Eric Newman in Longview, Washington.
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