Praxair has responded to the US Chemical Safety Boards (CSB) findings that extremely hot weather was partly to blame for last years fire at Praxair facility in the US.
The gas company told gasworld that it does not agree with the boards finding that high ambient temperatures contributed to the cause of the fire, which occurred at the companys St Louis facility on June 24 last year.
The company spokesman Nigel Muir said: “Praxair announced on September 29 last year that it believed a mechanical failure of a pressure relief valve on one or more gas cylinder containing propylene gas was the cause of the fire. Praxair provided data and information to the St Louis Fire Department, which also concluded that the cause of the fire was a mechanical failure of a pressure relief valve.”
Praxair does not manufacture cylinders or valves.
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