Are there any safety issues associated with hauling a bucket of diesel up a staircase? I know it's not as volatile as gasoline but it's still not exactly the most fire-safe substance. Are they literally 5-gallon pails, or are they sealed containers?
Are there any safety issues associated with hauling a bucket of diesel
up a staircase?
I know it's not as volatile as gasoline but it's still not exactly
the most fire-safe substance. Are they literally 5-gallon pails,
or are they sealed containers?
Diesel is extremely dangerous stuff. I nearly blew myself up a few years ago by not cleaning out a diesel tank with detergent properly that I was welding. Diesel residue vapourised and went boom. Fortunately there wasn't enough in it to create a large explosion but it required new underpants.
To add to that, my only car accident was due to having diesel on my shoes. My foot slipped off the brake and I rear ended some poor guy.
So one guy slips and there's five gallons of diesel covering what I assume is the escape route of a NYC high rise?
Hacking software is one thing, but when that goes wrong it just leaves crashed servers, unresponsive web apps and 404/500 errors.
And, before someone mentinos it, hauling diesel up stairs to keep a hospital generator going (as mentioned in another story) is a whole different situation. Patients are a bit more important than a bunch of servers. But you'd still evacuate all non-essential staff and patients if you were doing that given that it presents a significant danger if something were to go wrong; especially with the emergency services already dealing with a huge workload.
But yes :)
Potential hazmat incident.