Knowing that a major fire could be catastrophic, scrap processors think about fire prevention and take steps to prevent it, but-pardon the pun- the rarely make it a front-burner issue. Fires seem fairly rare in the scrap industry, but those that do occur are costly, notes Monica McNally, senior vice president of the ISRI-sponsored RecycleGuard~(sm) insurance program. In the past five years, only 3 percent of the total claims in the program were fire related, but they received 28 percent of the claims dollars paid-more than 20 million dollars.
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