When does a spill become hazmat?

I sop that diesel up with a rag, and wring it out into my tank. Hell, why have fuel filters if you're not gonna use them?

 

Spill? What spill?

 

If you like your company you kick some absorbent around it, if not you call in to the haz mat spill center and they will clean it real purdy like and charge 10 grand.

 

It was less than 8oz.
It just looks like more because it spreads.

 

Depends on the state. NJ wants everything reported [1888WARNDEP] and I remember the head of NJ DEP emergency response saying anything spilled on the state of NJ needs to be reported as they had the opinion that something like milk was still a HM spill. That man [god rest his soul] was good at response and trained a bunch of first responders haw to safely handle haz mat incidents. I got to stage several mock leaks for him while I worked at Matlack.

 

I know a guy who blew a steer tire in S.C. At around 1am. It tore his drivers side tank open (he had just fueled). He dumped out over 150 gallons of diesel fuel in the median that night. The next day the Chief from the local fire house calls his cell phone & tells him “ Yeah, i’m out here at the accident scene now. I don’t see much, i’d say you lost less than 5 gallons. We’re just not gonna worry about this one”.

luckiest unlucky son of gun i know lol

 

I spilled 10 gallons of hydraulic tractor oil when I was sweeping the town road. The fire chief came out and threw some sand on it. Told me to have a good day and left.

 

Not sure how you would establish how much you spilled. Sweep it in a pile and scoop it in a bucket?

Hard to get to a reportable quantity that way....

 

i had been told by at least 2 different safety guys, at 2 different employers, that in of itself, it is not hazmat, UNTIL you throw, sand, speedi-dry or zip zorb onto it. then it needs to be cleaned up and disposed of properly, which depending on the amount of clean up, could require a cleaning crew.

unless it was dozens of gallons, many trucking companies with onsite fueling just clean it up, and put it into the dumpster, to avoid not only the reporting end of it, but the price of the clean up, and possible insurance spikes.