(Long may it live)
As to the grout accelerant in question:
TDS [PDF]: https://assets.ctfassets.net/ctspkgm1yw3s/DMSY-1685695220-39...
MSDS [PDF]: https://assets.ctfassets.net/ctspkgm1yw3s/3Tp3imoxG5XfZlrlzU...
I am not skilled in the arts of aggregate curing and occupational exposure, but I wonder if it’s the “silicic acid” or a non-table-variety of “sodium salt” (from the MSDS) that’s sloughing the firefighters’ skin off here… or something that happens when the sodium oxide (from the TDS) hits water? Chemistry class was a lifetime ago but does that turn it back into lye? Is the oxide technically a “sodium salt”?
https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/environment/no-boring-co-...
https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/c...
This reminded me of another local story (I live in both locations). The local swimming hole was fined for releasing seawater back to where it came from, cleaner than it was beforehand.
https://www.dailybreeze.com/2010/01/20/redondo-beach-asks-li...
https://documents.coastal.ca.gov/reports/2018/8/th13b/Th13b-...
Screw this. OSHA and other safety violations should, by default, pierce the corporate veil. Particularly ones where those that help others in need get injured.
These are what are claimed to be the onerous regulations slowing down innovation.
The revolving door continues to spin. Wouldn’t have guessed that a former Tesla executive now leading state infrastructure policy would give special treatment to another Musk-owned company.
Unsurprising but still despicable that the Boring Company disregards worker and emergency responder safety to this level, and that even a slap on the wrist fine was enough for them to go crying to the governor.
Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drilling fluids into manholes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45862674
Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas
Who failed to inform the firefighters that quickening agents can leech from walls?