America’s love of craft beer is undeniable. You can’t click past a few webpages or travel to town without seeing advertisements for the latest trendy suds. Gone are the days of market domination by just a few handful of breweries. Grocery stores’ shelves now swell with exotic and tantalizing brands that are packaged in colorful and clever wrapping. Some stores will even let you shop while you drink. Craft breweries are also popping up quicker than Starbucks. With great expansion and brand recognition comes great responsibility, and we aren’t talking about designated drivers. Breweries use and store potentially dangerous chemicals, such as flavorants and various acids. To remain compliant and prevent a self-imposed prohibition, breweries should invest in a hazardous material storage rental.
Don’t let your brewery fall victim to prohibition due to inferior protection
Breweries are sort of like industrial laboratories. Although they are responsible for countless tasty creations that we’ve come to love, they can still be pretty dangerous because of the high pressurized and volatile environments they operate under. Even candy factories operate under potentially dangerous conditions. Breweries, which are like candy factories for adults, are no different. Last week, a “flash fire” at a Georgia brewery left one person in critical condition with second degree burns to more than 50 percent of his body. Brewery officials said the fire happened in the brewhouse when one of the “stills combusted during the distilling process.” Such incidents could’ve been prevented with a hazardous material storage rental from U.S. Hazmat Rentals.
“Obviously, our team has been shaken by this incident and our hearts go out to our guest who was injured,” they wrote. “Until we know further details, we ask for our community to keep our guest and all our team members in your thoughts and prayers.”
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We can’t comment on the series of events that led to this unfortunate chemical incident, but we can say with certainty that similar incidents are the result of improper chemical storage. Every year, hundreds of companies are slapped with thousands of dollars in civil penalties for failing to adhere to EPA and OSHA regulations pertaining to hazardous materials. Guaranteed protection is just a phone call or click away.
“The notion of breweries as potentially dangerous places to work isn’t necessarily something that would occur to many people outside the industry. It can be easy to forget that breweries are manufacturers, and that the people working in these facilities are dealing with difficult and dangerous equipment.”
Source: https://stateimpact.npr.org/new-hampshire/2012/05/04/a-closer-look-at-brewery-accidents-after-the-deadly-redhook-explosion/
Hazardous material storage rental can prevent injuries at small craft breweries
Craft breweries are responsible for nearly four times the amount of safety violations than larger breweries
Craft breweries might be big on taste, but they still pale in comparison to larger breweries in at least one category: workplace safety. Between 2009 and 2012, at least four people died in accidents at craft breweries. Larger breweries, that make 10 times more beer, reported half those deaths. That’s a statistic we need to reverse. U.S. Hazmat Rentals offers a line of hazardous material storage rentals that are ideal for the short-term storage of dangerous chemicals. Our four-hour fire rated structures would be great for operations that store hazardous materials within 10 feet of vulnerable assets. Space is a premium in any facility, so we know how important it is to secure efficient and compliant storage. Don’t become another statistic. Why settle for inferior protection? Invest in guaranteed chemical protection today. Your workforce and stockholders will thankyou in the future.
