Lift trucks can explode or catch fire. And it happens more often than you might imagine. Every time the results are costly and often tragic. Consider these three instances. 1. After a Kentucky foam insulation factory blew up killing 66 people, neither company managers nor government authorities could identify the cause. But three months after the explosion, the company ordered a fleet of explosion-proof trucks. 2. At a chemical manufacturer in New Jersey, there was a spill in a mixing room that caused an evacuation of the plant. A lift truck driver volunteered to go back in to unload a mixing vat. Just 15 minutes later, there was an explosion that killed the driver and burned the plant to the ground. 3. A lift truck driver at a 1.2 million square foot warehouse in Pennsylvania put a fork through a pallet load of carburetor cleaner. The resulting fire was so intense that the fire doors were closed. Unfortunately, flammables stored throughout the warehouse exploded, burning the warehouse to the ground.
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