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Just a reminder for all to personally check the O2 content of your tanks.
Even if you have a great mixer, he may have bought pure stock gas that was
not what it seems to be. 
Attached is a warning sent out about the largest independent specialty gas
company supplying Texas. Two died breathing what should have been 21% O2
certified air. 

Rick

> Subject:	Safety Alert: Search for Bad Breathing Air from Aeriform
> Importance:	High
> 
> 
> OSHA believes that there may be more bad breathing air from the same
> Aeriform 
> batches that apparently caused two fatalities at Equistar. 
> 
Aeriform, an employee-owned firm headquartered in Houston, is the largest
independent distributor of packaged industrial and specialty gases in Texas.
(Their web site www.aeriform.com) requires a password for access).

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> 
> NewsRadio 740 KTRH
> Houston News Update
> 
> March 22nd, 2000
> 
> Federal workplace investigators are warning all Houston area plants to
> check
> their compressed air cylinders. This alert comes as O.S.H.A. believes the
> two men who died while sand-blasting a boiler at the "EquiStar" plant may
> have died because they were breathing through compressed air cylinders
> that
> were mixed with oxygen levels that were too low. These cylinders were part
> of a specific lot made and sold by the "Aeriform" Company here in Houston.
> Twelve more cylinders from this lot have not been found. "Aerfiorm"
> officials say these twelve are part of one cluster and were sold between
> February 8th and 20th of this year. If your company purchased compressed
> air
> cylinders from "Aeriform" during this time frame check the number
> stenciled
> on the side. If the numbers 9-0-6-3 or 9-0-6-5 are stenciled on the side
> of
> a cluster of twelve cylinders do not use them because the oxygen levels
> may
> be dangerously low. Anyone finding this specific cluster needs to call the
> "Aeriform" company at (713) 926-3166.
> 
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