Employees have been evacuated from the spill area. The onsite response team is suiting up and reviewing their plan to contain the spill and keep it from reaching a nearby creek. Now is not the time to start frantically paging through a dust-covered spill response plan — or worse, an outdated phone book — to try to find a store in the area that might have a piece of equipment that the responders will need.

Foundries and machine shops are known for being dangerous places, but Bremen Castings Inc. (BCI) in Bremen, Indiana is celebrating going 495 days without lost time.

A leaky flange with a long history of trouble appears to be at the root of a March 5, 2012 release of hydrofluoric acid (HF) from a CITGO refinery, according to the Chemical Safety Board (CSB).