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y�r <br /> r <br /> l SAFEWAYiNC. <br /> J 4TH & JACKSON STREETS <br /> . OAKLAND, CA 94660 f <br /> January 27, 1995 <br /> Office of Emergency Services <br /> San Joaquin Co. <br /> 222 E. Weber Avenue <br /> Stockton, CA 95202 <br /> Re: Safeway Meat Plant <br /> 1111 Navy Dr. <br /> Stockton, CA (Case No. 006418) <br /> To Whom It May Concern: <br /> As required under Chapter 6.95 of the California Health & Safety Code, this letter serves <br /> as written follow-up to our January 25, 1995 verbal notification to the County OES office <br /> regarding an anhydrous ammonia leak at our Stockton Meat Plant. The following is a <br /> chronology of events: <br /> On Tuesday, January 24, 1995 at approximately 11:17 p.m., a crack developed in a 1]4" <br /> oil return line on a refrigeration compressor in the plant's compressor room. The plant <br /> was evacuated of approximately 15 employees, power to the compressors was shut off <br /> and the City of Stockton Fire Department was called at 11:24 p.m. Fire department <br /> personnel arrived at 11:55 p.m. Two firemen donned self-contained breathing apparatus, <br /> entered the compressor to shut off valves and further isolate the impaired portion of the <br /> refrigeration system. Fire department personnel-left at 12:23 a.m. There were no injuries <br /> to personnel nor product loss. <br /> The County Office of Emergency Services was contacted on January 25, 1994 at 8:35 <br /> a.m. initially, it was reported that we believed approximately 75 gallons of ammonia had <br /> been released to the atmosphere. The National Response Center (Case No. 277530) <br /> and the State Office of Emergency Services (Case No. 006424) was also notified that <br /> day, as was the San Joaquin County Department of Environmental Health, and the State <br /> Department of Toxic Substances Control. <br /> Subsequent calculations by Safeway's Production Engineering Manager indicated that <br /> the release was actually around 45 pounds of anhydrous ammonia. The cause of the oil <br /> line return crack is suspected to be due to vibration. Remedial action will include <br /> minimizing equipment vibration and replacing all defective thin-wall tubing lines with <br /> heavier gauge piping. <br /> Recycled <br /> Paper <br />