Cleaner with phosphate. Works great.
I used to deliver to an Air Force Base. This was a long time ago. Long before anybody took hazmats seriously and before any of the training.
Had a box leaking as I was delivering to Base Supply. Some Colonel saw it and sounded the alarm bells because he had no idea what it was. Was not marked hazardous, so I guess he thought better safe than sorry.
They evacuated the building, called Hazmat and whisked me off to the Base Hospital since I had a little on my hands and was probably breathing the fumes.
The Hospital didn’t know what it was or how to treat me. They called Hazmat asking them. Hazmat had no idea what it was.
I heard Hazmat on the radios asking around trying to find out what this stuff was. They said it says TSP on the jugs. They were panicking because this building had over 100 Servicemen working in it who may have been exposed to a toxic substance. They were asking how to clean it up.
Base Janitorial Services came back on the radio and said with a mop and a bucket. It is Trisodium Phosphate, a harmless cleaner.
The Base Hospital told me to wash my hands and get the hell out of there.
This all took over 2 hours and I later found out it also cost the Base over $10K for this incident.
TSP…I will never forget what it is.
ers.
