Word: tanks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While making a routine tank change, Geribo said, he was tightening a valve on the transmission line and detected a slight leak...
...Buildings and Grounds (B&G) maintenance worker who was changing a chlorine tank below the Indoor Athletic Building (IAB) pool last Monday when a large amount of the toxic gas escaped said yesterday that the accident occurred when a valve he was tightening "popped off under heavy pressure...
Geribo emphasized that all of the equipment was in good condition at the time of the tank change. "If there had been [deterioration] there were plenty of replacements, and I could have just replaced [the pipe]," he added...
...maintenance employee familiar with the building said this week that the worker replacing the tank had told him that "the line was shot" before the leak occurred Monday and that reports of the deterioration to supervisors had not resulted in any action...
...leak began sometime before 10 a.m., and the chlorine gas quickly drifted from the basement tank area up to the pool level and throughout...