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minus-squareTomMasz@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoThere are lots of US standards like this. You’d be surprised how much product a railroad tank car can contain and still be called “empty”. US industry has an outsized influence on the creation of standards.
minus-squareSlightlyNormal@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoI don’t like that. Now I’m going to imagine that every “empty” railroad tank car has 100 gallons of dioxins sloshing around.
minus-squareTomMasz@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoIt came up in hazmat training when I was a volunteer firefighter. It’s like handling firearms, you always assume they’re loaded.
There are lots of US standards like this. You’d be surprised how much product a railroad tank car can contain and still be called “empty”. US industry has an outsized influence on the creation of standards.
I don’t like that. Now I’m going to imagine that every “empty” railroad tank car has 100 gallons of dioxins sloshing around.
It came up in hazmat training when I was a volunteer firefighter. It’s like handling firearms, you always assume they’re loaded.