Glad you’re ok. We actually used this during video during HazMat training. Thank you for all the additional info you provided. Really helped us be able to set up the scenario.
Thanks for posting this video. I like to watch it periodically to keep my mind focused on safety, as well as vapor clouds(I work in the chemical industry). Great video, good to know that you weren't harmed.
Hi Joel. My name is Tony and I'm a safety rep who helps businesses with preparedness for workplace accidents and OSHA compliance. You could have died in seconds being there. Incredibly lucky that you were not downwind.
Anthony Donaldson yes, I only knew that after I read about it when I got home. It scares me to think about it now. It's a good video though. Lol. Glad I am alive.
Joel Hershberger yes, glad that you are alive! Hope that others get to see this video and are careful when they see something similar happening. It's our nature to draw to something unusual such as this. take care!
Just adding an update to this. I talked to the guy at the MN Dept of Agriculture who investigated this accident. Apparently, the company that was contracted to inject the field didn't use a safety feature properly and that is what caused this accident. The company was fined for this incident. That is good news. I am sure they won't make this mistake ever again. Thanks for all who watched this video. Edit: changed spray to inject.
You don't "spray" NH3. Its injected directly into the soil. Obviously, the containers excess flow valve failed to seal. If the hose connection had a Emergency Shut-Off valve installed, it would have closed when the hose broke.
Excess flows won't usually snap shut. Especially in the fall seasons where weather is chilly which in turn drops tank pressures to 40-60 psi. ISC with an air actuator is the only safe bet.
I'm an industrial refrigeration tech with just about 2 yrs of experience working with ammonia, have had many training with this refrigerant and it still scares me when working with it 😬 lucky guy to be alive
Just to answer a couple of questions. The temp was in the 35-45F range. There wasn't any wind that I remember. I am not a fireman. I didn't smell anything until a cop made me leave the area. About a tenth mile down the road I started feeling light headed and sick from the smell going across the highway, but didn't have any problems while I was taking the video. It wasn't my tank and I wasn't around the area when the hose broke. I was driving by and saw it and started to record it. I never would have taken this video if I would have known how dangerous that it could have been. Like I said before, though, I was safe because I didn't smell or feel anything while I was recording. The wind was just strong enough that it was carrying it to the North. The video is being recorded to the West. Hope that answers most of the questions. I stop in to read comments and answer questions every once in a while. Please ask more if you have any. I will be happy to answer if I can. I am not an expert, though.
Joel Hershberger Probably so. A lot of toxic gases have the insidious property of being able to numb or even destroy your sense of smell/taste in short order. that's often the first symptom. I believe this is the case with ammonia. Hydrogen sulfide in petrochemical equipment is especially notorious for this. There have been cases of workers entering an empty tank, only to smell the "rotten egg gas" and leave. Then they come back later and can't smell the gas anymore so they wrongly decide it's now safe to enter and start work. I work as a welder and sometimes do work inside enclosed tanks or vessels. one thing they tell you in safety training is if you see a worker passed out inside an enclosed area, do NOT try to climb in to rescue them. Call 911 first, then go put on the SCBA gear.
We fertilized with this stuff a couple of times. I didn’t like it. Sometimes a little vents when connecting hoses and sometimes it comes up if you don’t get it fully covered over with dirt. In either case it causes an intense burning sensation of eyes, noses etc. You learn real quick to always stay upwind.
Good God man, I sincerely hope you notified local emergency responders. Anhydrous is extremely deadly and a release that size could have put your neighbors in danger. Stay safe, good lord that is terrifying.
Holy!! you were pretty lucky the wind was carrying it away from you! I'm a refrigeration technician and work with this every day, I would have hightailed out of there as fast as I could, and I carry two gas-masks in my car. Did any of the gas carry your way? was it your tank? was there any persons working near it when the hose broke? Sorry if it's to many questions, but this is pretty wild
WoW I’ve been an Industrial NH3 refrigeration engineer for 20 years and have had tanks go but never saw anybody stand around watching. Hope you didn’t get injured.
Hi Joel. My name is David Paulson and am from Saskatchewan Canada. We sell an air actuacted emergency saftey valve to avoid loss of ammonia when accidents like this happen. I would like to get your permission to use this video at trade shows to help in promoting the use of these ESV's
this video should be at the top of the watched list!! i just wonder why the excess flow didnt trip?? very dangerous stuff to be working with!!! i did for several years & now have just went entirely to the propane side of the company i work for!!! thanks for sharing with us
Interesting that they didn't have the highway shut down. An NH3 cloud like that will kill a vehicle motor and then the occupants are in trouble. Thanks for posting this. Pretty obvious the Internal Emergency Shut Off Valve wasn't working at all on that thing. From where you were you wouldn't have been in any danger unless the wind picked up in your direction. It must have been pretty humid out for it to stick around that long. NH3 is lighter than air and normally goes up and dissipates unless there is a lot of water in the air.
The highway was shut down as soon as I stopped the video. That is when the police showed up on scene. When I left the gas was drifting over the road a little down the road and I got light headed and started feeling sick for about 10 seconds and then it cleared up.
Nice pleasant dawn in the country, what's that beautiful mist down in the field there? Knew a guy who got a shot of the stuff right to his face, almost no fun at all...
That crop will grow better than ever. The only reason to put a nurse tank in the middle of a field is for fertilizer purposes. But damn dangerous for sure. Since we as operators are legally required to call 911 for 10 lbs. of loss how long did it take for hazmat to arrive?
Anyone else here actually work with this stuff on a daily basis? Lol, I have lived a block away from a plant that stores 30,000 gallons of NH3 my entire life. I now work at that plant and have been burned twice and had many close calls with NH3.
@@nicholasfry8695 you must grow corn? Or something that is planted in wide furrows.... I’m in wheat country, we fertilize almost exclusively into the ground before seeding, sometimes months before seeding.
If you want the original for training purposes than I would be happy to let you have it. As long as it is for training only. You do know that the video with the police officer that dies in the anhydrous is only a police training video and was never suppose to have been released on the internet, right? Anyway you are welcome to the unedited version of the video. The quality is much better than what the youtube version is. :) let me know your email addy and I can send the file or a link.
Wonder where the equipment operator was? Seems like there should have been a safety plan to keep folks like Mr. Herschberger away. Granted, the operator may have been busy contacting authorities. I'm wondering whether this is the typical characteristic of anhydrous ammonia (NH3) when released inadvertently? From behavior I've had described, it rises into the air, but this seems to have created a ground fog - perhaps a combination of air moisture and NH3 along with the local temperature?. Anhydrous ammonia is chemically attracted to water and that is why it is so bad on the eyes, mouth, lungs and other orifices and sweaty areas of the human body. Water is key to have as part of first aid. The ammonia tank is required to have a water kit present for spillage instances - although a water kit plainly wouldn't have helped in this circumstance. This material is a miracle chemical that is probably the future of a carbon-free world, but make no mistake, it needs to be handled safely through educational safety training and due care from that education. Thank you for the video - glad you survived this unscathed.
Yes, previous to that the hose was still on and the pressure was whipping it around from the pressure. The hose or fitting at the tank finally gave way at that point and the hose blew off. It was at that point you can also see how the anhydrous was being blown straight out the back of the tank. That is why that happens as well.
a farmer i know of died recently while working with anhydrous. it wasn't actually the anhydrous that killed him tho. a hose broke and the force knocked him back some and he fell and hit is head on the equipment and died in the hospital later from the head injury.
I suspect that there was zero damage to the field, short term or long term. The anhydrous ammonia (NH3) would almost certainly have killed any mammals in the field that could not escape the gas cloud (e.g. rats, mice, rabbits, deer, people, etc.). On our family farm, we used to use anhydrous ammonia to kill ground squirrels in the ground. We would put a hose in one hole, then shovel dirt over the connected holes where the gas was escaping. Any growing weeds may have frozen and died because the temperature of the gas is about -28 degrees F (I believe). Other than that, the next crop planted in that soil may have grown especially well, as the soil may have captured an extra dose of nitrogen fertilizer. I suspect that the safest thing for the fire department and police to do would be to first warn any nearby neighbors to evacuate if necessary. Then, if they have a lot of available water, they could spray the gas cloud with a lot of water to dilute it. But they should make sure that they spray it from a safe distance away and make sure that they can escape quickly if the wind direction switches. If they can't spray water on the gas cloud, then I suspect that the safest thing to do is to make sure that no one in the area gets close to it until it dissipates naturally. Normally the soil is fertilized by spraying the NH3 gas several inches deep, directly into the soil. A steel shank digs a trench. Then NH3 is sprayed into the trench through a tube mounted to the backside of the shank. As the shank passes, dirt falls back over the NH3 that was just sprayed into the trench, mostly sealing it into the ground.
I haul this in an 18 wheeler. 6000gallons at a time. I pray to God nothing like this ever happens to the tank cause lots of people would die. Also people on the highway don't trspect 18 wheelers, cut me off all day long.
Funny to see that in the saftey obsessed US it is legal use anhydrous anmonia in farming. If my neighbour's would use this poisonous stuff I would immediately move away.
One thing people from other countries don't have a proper perspective on is how huge some farmland is and how difficult it is or expensive to afford other fertilizer methods. This was a 3rd party company that was hired and they fucked up.
lucky it wasnt in a built up area ...a thick mate of mine decided to empty the air out of a 47k gas bottle the cloud looked like that soon moved my van ...shame i didnt record it
Josh - I'm Allen Sommerfeld with the Minnesota Department of Agriculture. I'm working on a video about anhydrous ammonia safety and would like to use a portion of this in our video. With proper credit given to you, would we be able to use this? Thanks!
Joel, nice video though you're right it was extremely dangerous to be there. Do you mind if I use this as an example in an Anhydrous Ammonia safety training video?
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Man! That stuff was angry and pissed off. ☠Run! ☠Run! Ruuuuunnnn!☠Scary. Thank god you got this on video dude. This should be used in a horror movie -walking dead scene or Welcome t To My Nightmare!! Glad you weren't injured Oh, damn! This video's from 9 years ogo.🤣😎🇺🇸
Just think...without a hazmat suit and respirator you'd die before you could get close enough to shut off the valve on the tank. If you didn't then you'd die on the way out.
if you ever inhale straight a.n. you'll prolly fall over if you get a good breath of it, I was working in a fertilizer plant and they had gallons and gallons of this in big tanks and I was on a 30,000 gallon tank and the pressure relief valve did it's job and when it did I remeber waking up from falling 15 ft bein dragged cause my Co worker smelled something and me on thw ground so I was bein dragged away like wtf
Joel I was one of the people on scene with Faribault Fire the day of the incident. Could you please send us a copy of this for training. We would greatly appriciate it. Thanks Much
I haul it to farmers. The tanker I pull holds 16 tonnes of it. There are so many safety features though the probability of something like this happening is very low. If a hose, pipe, or valve blows off, there is actually a valve built into the tanker that will slam shut automatically and instantly to stop it from leaking out. Not to mention the tanker shell itself is 1/2" thick wall.
sorry if I didn't reply before, but, yes, I would be happy to give you a link to the original file. It is much better quality than this video. If you are still interested just get hold of me. joelbon@yahoo.com
+Bob Kerbs It is too important for farming to being banned. I wouldn't go along with that. If properly taken care of it is safe. Sort of the same thing with LP tanks. If properly taken care of they are safe.
You see bob, we have destroyed the quality of our soil by over farming it. So now we feel it is necessary to inject man made nitrogen into the soil so we can keep our big yields up. And since we only care about big yields, we are willing to risk human lives and the environment to get them. Have a nice day.
Andrew Corbett Well since air is already 78% nitrogen how is this awful for the environment? I know this stuff is dangerous but out of the hundreds of thousands of tanks that get used each year this is just one.....
On its own it is possible for anhydrous ammonia to explode but very unlikely. It takes about 16 - 25% air concentration and 1200 degrees Fahrenheit for ignition.
Randy Brown The autoignition temperature of Anhydrous Ammonia is above its combustion temperature, meaning-- in essence-- that it's not a large explosion risk. You need a concentration with plenty of air in it, but not too much, air without too much humidity to convert the anhydrous to, well, hydrous (ammonia in solution), and an ignition source that's the temperature of an oxyacetylene torch. Far more likely would be a dangerous reaction with another chemical in the area, or chemical poisoning.
The recommended safety equipment for this situation is a good pair of running shoes.
Haha the ad under your comment was for running shoes
Definitely gonna need to call the fire department
Well that's one way to kill all of the bugs and moles in a field!!
Glad you’re ok. We actually used this during video during HazMat training. Thank you for all the additional info you provided. Really helped us be able to set up the scenario.
We had a leak like this in a metal plating plant. Plays heck with PBI turnout gear
Anhydrous is some wicked stuff.
Thanks for posting this video. I like to watch it periodically to keep my mind focused on safety, as well as vapor clouds(I work in the chemical industry). Great video, good to know that you weren't harmed.
Hi Joel. My name is Tony and I'm a safety rep who helps businesses with preparedness for workplace accidents and OSHA compliance. You could have died in seconds being there. Incredibly lucky that you were not downwind.
Anthony Donaldson yes, I only knew that after I read about it when I got home. It scares me to think about it now. It's a good video though. Lol. Glad I am alive.
Joel Hershberger yes, glad that you are alive! Hope that others get to see this video and are careful when they see something similar happening. It's our nature to draw to something unusual such as this. take care!
For the distance he was at, he had 3 or 4 odds of not being downwind.
@@HobbyOrganist You don't have to worry about them.
Just adding an update to this. I talked to the guy at the MN Dept of Agriculture who investigated this accident. Apparently, the company that was contracted to inject the field didn't use a safety feature properly and that is what caused this accident.
The company was fined for this incident. That is good news. I am sure they won't make this mistake ever again. Thanks for all who watched this video.
Edit: changed spray to inject.
You don't "spray" NH3. Its injected directly into the soil. Obviously, the containers excess flow valve failed to seal. If the hose connection had a Emergency Shut-Off valve installed, it would have closed when the hose broke.
Excess flows won't usually snap shut. Especially in the fall seasons where weather is chilly which in turn drops tank pressures to 40-60 psi. ISC with an air actuator is the only safe bet.
@@rickd1412 yeah I’m pretty sure there is supposed to be a master valve on these that should be on whenever the tank isn’t in use
Should have their business license/permits pulled permanently , a crappy fine is nothing
Wow, I'm really glad you're still alive. Also glad you posted this video with that in the description so hopefully nobody else tries this.
I'm an industrial refrigeration tech with just about 2 yrs of experience working with ammonia, have had many training with this refrigerant and it still scares me when working with it 😬 lucky guy to be alive
Just to answer a couple of questions. The temp was in the 35-45F range. There wasn't any wind that I remember. I am not a fireman. I didn't smell anything until a cop made me leave the area. About a tenth mile down the road I started feeling light headed and sick from the smell going across the highway, but didn't have any problems while I was taking the video. It wasn't my tank and I wasn't around the area when the hose broke. I was driving by and saw it and started to record it.
I never would have taken this video if I would have known how dangerous that it could have been. Like I said before, though, I was safe because I didn't smell or feel anything while I was recording. The wind was just strong enough that it was carrying it to the North. The video is being recorded to the West.
Hope that answers most of the questions. I stop in to read comments and answer questions every once in a while. Please ask more if you have any. I will be happy to answer if I can. I am not an expert, though.
Joel Hershberger
Probably so. A lot of toxic gases have the insidious property of being able to numb or even destroy your sense of smell/taste in short order. that's often the first symptom. I believe this is the case with ammonia.
Hydrogen sulfide in petrochemical equipment is especially notorious for this. There have been cases of workers entering an empty tank, only to smell the "rotten egg gas" and leave. Then they come back later and can't smell the gas anymore so they wrongly decide it's now safe to enter and start work.
I work as a welder and sometimes do work inside enclosed tanks or vessels. one thing they tell you in safety training is if you see a worker passed out inside an enclosed area, do NOT try to climb in to rescue them. Call 911 first, then go put on the SCBA gear.
I would never enter a. Empty enclosed tank period, regardless. Unless you have scba on hell not. Dont get paid enough to risk my life.
your guatdian angel was guarding you that day.
Imagine what the first soliders subject to chlorine gas attacks must have thought...
We fertilized with this stuff a couple of times. I didn’t like it. Sometimes a little vents when connecting hoses and sometimes it comes up if you don’t get it fully covered over with dirt. In either case it causes an intense burning sensation of eyes, noses etc. You learn real quick to always stay upwind.
Never had Covid-19. Apparently I'm one of the go to guys where I work filling tanks. 😬
Good God man, I sincerely hope you notified local emergency responders. Anhydrous is extremely deadly and a release that size could have put your neighbors in danger. Stay safe, good lord that is terrifying.
Blue lives don't matter.
@@Recordeer Deer lives do not matter.
@@HonduDan Bet?
@@Recordeer let's do $25 on it, then double or nothing on parakeet lives. You in?
@@HonduDan If you had $25, perhaps...
Holy!! you were pretty lucky the wind was carrying it away from you! I'm a refrigeration technician and work with this every day, I would have hightailed out of there as fast as I could, and I carry two gas-masks in my car.
Did any of the gas carry your way? was it your tank? was there any persons working near it when the hose broke?
Sorry if it's to many questions, but this is pretty wild
looks like a cloud of death
WoW I’ve been an Industrial NH3 refrigeration engineer for 20 years and have had tanks go but never saw anybody stand around watching. Hope you didn’t get injured.
Hi Joel. My name is David Paulson and am from Saskatchewan Canada. We sell an air actuacted emergency saftey valve to avoid loss of ammonia when accidents like this happen. I would like to get your permission to use this video at trade shows to help in promoting the use of these ESV's
That would be fine with me as long as you have a link posted showing the original leak on TH-cam.
Joel Hershberger Thanks, credit and links will be given. David
Glad for you that it never reached you. Amazing video, but...wow...that was close.
Excellent video. I'm going to incorporate this into our training programs.
Holy crap, man. That's an awesome video but if the breeze turned your way you'd have been dead. Like blam, lights out.
It’s insane to think how, if the wind had picked up and this were a more populated area...that had the potential to kill ALOT of people.
this video should be at the top of the watched list!! i just wonder why the excess flow didnt trip?? very dangerous stuff to be working with!!! i did for several years & now have just went entirely to the propane side of the company i work for!!! thanks for sharing with us
Interesting that they didn't have the highway shut down. An NH3 cloud like that will kill a vehicle motor and then the occupants are in trouble. Thanks for posting this. Pretty obvious the Internal Emergency Shut Off Valve wasn't working at all on that thing. From where you were you wouldn't have been in any danger unless the wind picked up in your direction. It must have been pretty humid out for it to stick around that long. NH3 is lighter than air and normally goes up and dissipates unless there is a lot of water in the air.
The highway was shut down as soon as I stopped the video. That is when the police showed up on scene. When I left the gas was drifting over the road a little down the road and I got light headed and started feeling sick for about 10 seconds and then it cleared up.
But I'll bet you had nice clear sinuses!! Lol. I've had enough whiffs of that stuff to know it isn't fun.
Terri Hamilton how do you know so much about anhydrous ammonia (NH3)?
C MUNOZ she cooks meth
Actually,I didn't smell anything until I drove away. It was drifting to the right and I didn't smell it at all.
Holy shit dude a slight breeze in your direction and you wouldn’t be with us anymore
Farmer reading his bill 🙃
Quantity used exceeded quote ,Application completed .
Invoiced accordingly .
Do you recall what the temp was that day? Must have been zero wind and pretty freaking cold. Cool video, thanks.
Nice pleasant dawn in the country, what's that beautiful mist down in the field there? Knew a guy who got a shot of the stuff right to his face, almost no fun at all...
The temp was in the 35-45F range. There wasn't any wind that I remember.
happy to see this was not in a high populated area
WOW! Thanks for putting yourself in harms way! This is one heck of a leak. I never seen anything like it!
tallest corn in the world ......................
chaseme81871 is this how they do the corn these days ?
interesting....
Chase: I got a pit 100% identical to the one in your picture.. Brindle patches on her eyes. She's fixed. You got any pups?
That crop will grow better than ever. The only reason to put a nurse tank in the middle of a field is for fertilizer purposes. But damn dangerous for sure. Since we as operators are legally required to call 911 for 10 lbs. of loss how long did it take for hazmat to arrive?
That's one well-fertilized field! Didn't you smell it when all this was happening?
Kevin Murray the wind was in just the right direction that I didn't smell anything until I left the scene.
Anyone else here actually work with this stuff on a daily basis? Lol, I have lived a block away from a plant that stores 30,000 gallons of NH3 my entire life. I now work at that plant and have been burned twice and had many close calls with NH3.
I mean as a farmer we use it only after planting though
@@nicholasfry8695 you must grow corn? Or something that is planted in wide furrows.... I’m in wheat country, we fertilize almost exclusively into the ground before seeding, sometimes months before seeding.
Get a new job
I haul this often.
Pick up at the plant that produces it and deliver it to other plants or farmers. I haul around 6000 gallons at a time.
whats amazing is that no one (I suppose) was killed down wind of this site
madness, lol whats with the bendy pole at 2:08
That happened when TH-cam optimized the video. There is no bendy pole in the original video. lol
@@JoelHershberger Oh it's optimized alright! lol
@@leahbender7032lmfaoooo I’m dying at this comment in 2024
I think that much will burn and kill anything in the area.
That's one way to fertilize a field
If you want the original for training purposes than I would be happy to let you have it. As long as it is for training only. You do know that the video with the police officer that dies in the anhydrous is only a police training video and was never suppose to have been released on the internet, right? Anyway you are welcome to the unedited version of the video. The quality is much better than what the youtube version is. :) let me know your email addy and I can send the file or a link.
Post your address and I will send you a link. This must be for training purposes only and no money exchanged for any use of the video.
Wonder where the equipment operator was? Seems like there should have been a safety plan to keep folks like Mr. Herschberger away. Granted, the operator may have been busy contacting authorities.
I'm wondering whether this is the typical characteristic of anhydrous ammonia (NH3) when released inadvertently? From behavior I've had described, it rises into the air, but this seems to have created a ground fog - perhaps a combination of air moisture and NH3 along with the local temperature?. Anhydrous ammonia is chemically attracted to water and that is why it is so bad on the eyes, mouth, lungs and other orifices and sweaty areas of the human body.
Water is key to have as part of first aid. The ammonia tank is required to have a water kit present for spillage instances - although a water kit plainly wouldn't have helped in this circumstance. This material is a miracle chemical that is probably the future of a carbon-free world, but make no mistake, it needs to be handled safely through educational safety training and due care from that education. Thank you for the video - glad you survived this unscathed.
It looks like the farmer had left the tank sitting there and had not shut off the master valve
Good on you for learning from this experience
Those tanks hold approximately 2 tons 3 tons in the 1450 gal tanks
What changed at 3:05? The sound is different. Did the hose come off?
Yes, previous to that the hose was still on and the pressure was whipping it around from the pressure. The hose or fitting at the tank finally gave way at that point and the hose blew off. It was at that point you can also see how the anhydrous was being blown straight out the back of the tank. That is why that happens as well.
How many tons were there in the tank ?
No, I was upwind and didn't have any ill effects.
God almighty how much is in there? How many miles did it spread?
anhydrous expands 850 times it's volume when it goes from liquid to vapor. so picture that tank. now picture 850 of them.
davenichole dam son. We looked at a big house cheap rent once. It was like 50 feet from a tank. We didnt get it. Thats crazy.
Snail Wrestler are you thinking of a propane tank?
davenichole nah pretty sure it was that stuff. It was in a plastic cvontainer tho maybe not coulda swore i know it was fert. It was a farm house.
davenichole that stuffs under pressure idk
Just finishe PSM/RMP training...your video came up.
a new way of fertilization
That’s a lot of money going up in smoke and there’s nothing that can be done about it.
a farmer i know of died recently while working with anhydrous. it wasn't actually the anhydrous that killed him tho. a hose broke and the force knocked him back some and he fell and hit is head on the equipment and died in the hospital later from the head injury.
I'm really curious as to what kind of long term damage to the field after this kind of spill? Anyone know?
I suspect that there was zero damage to the field, short term or long term. The anhydrous ammonia (NH3) would almost certainly have killed any mammals in the field that could not escape the gas cloud (e.g. rats, mice, rabbits, deer, people, etc.). On our family farm, we used to use anhydrous ammonia to kill ground squirrels in the ground. We would put a hose in one hole, then shovel dirt over the connected holes where the gas was escaping.
Any growing weeds may have frozen and died because the temperature of the gas is about -28 degrees F (I believe). Other than that, the next crop planted in that soil may have grown especially well, as the soil may have captured an extra dose of nitrogen fertilizer.
I suspect that the safest thing for the fire department and police to do would be to first warn any nearby neighbors to evacuate if necessary. Then, if they have a lot of available water, they could spray the gas cloud with a lot of water to dilute it. But they should make sure that they spray it from a safe distance away and make sure that they can escape quickly if the wind direction switches. If they can't spray water on the gas cloud, then I suspect that the safest thing to do is to make sure that no one in the area gets close to it until it dissipates naturally.
Normally the soil is fertilized by spraying the NH3 gas several inches deep, directly into the soil. A steel shank digs a trench. Then NH3 is sprayed into the trench through a tube mounted to the backside of the shank. As the shank passes, dirt falls back over the NH3 that was just sprayed into the trench, mostly sealing it into the ground.
"I see dead cows."
Were that something similar with the nasty H2S?
So what you all are saying is that if I walked into the mist it would melt my legs like a zombie movie?
You’d last 8-10 seconds before your lungs would close and you’d suffocate
Everyone notice how the gas shoots out and falls to the ground in a big cloud?
I haul this in an 18 wheeler. 6000gallons at a time. I pray to God nothing like this ever happens to the tank cause lots of people would die. Also people on the highway don't trspect 18 wheelers, cut me off all day long.
Im not scared of amonia but when it gets u it gets u
looked up the last of us 2 leaks, surprised to find a joel
🤧🤧🤧that must have smelled really bad 🤧🤧🤧🤧
When you had 1 too many burritos from taco bell
That will be one fertile field now....lol
No, I am not a firefighter. This was a really stupid thing to do. I didn't know how dangerous it was, though.
Playing with death 💀
Funny to see that in the saftey obsessed US it is legal use anhydrous anmonia in farming. If my neighbour's would use this poisonous stuff I would immediately move away.
It's used for fertilization and when properly injected into the ground it won't kill anybody
One thing people from other countries don't have a proper perspective on is how huge some farmland is and how difficult it is or expensive to afford other fertilizer methods. This was a 3rd party company that was hired and they fucked up.
Since the gas is dehydrated..if inhaled,it could cause serious lung damaged.
I mean, Ahnydrous? That's more dangerous than Chlorpic or Tellone. Damn.
lucky it wasnt in a built up area ...a thick mate of mine decided to empty the air out of a 47k gas bottle the cloud looked like that soon moved my van ...shame i didnt record it
Should’ve call the local chapter of tweakers. They’d have had that stuff bottled up and gone quick. Lol
Josh - I'm Allen Sommerfeld with the Minnesota Department of Agriculture. I'm working on a video about anhydrous ammonia safety and would like to use a portion of this in our video. With proper credit given to you, would we be able to use this? Thanks!
Yes
Joel, nice video though you're right it was extremely dangerous to be there. Do you mind if I use this as an example in an Anhydrous Ammonia safety training video?
+AV Creations Give me your email address and we can discuss it.
+Joel Hershberger I have not been able to find a way to private mail you on youtube. if you go to www.avcreate.com you can get my e-mail. Thanks.
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I bet that takes care of critters and pests and stuff.
that field would have been nice and fertile for a while
Man! That stuff was angry and pissed off. ☠Run! ☠Run! Ruuuuunnnn!☠Scary. Thank god you got this on video dude. This should be used in a horror movie -walking dead scene or Welcome t
To My Nightmare!! Glad you weren't injured
Oh, damn! This video's from 9 years ogo.🤣😎🇺🇸
Just think what radio active fallout is like.....
Don't worry, it's only the gas you can see that's dangerous.
Just think...without a hazmat suit and respirator you'd die before you could get close enough to shut off the valve on the tank. If you didn't then you'd die on the way out.
That's one way of applying it I guess.
if you ever inhale straight a.n. you'll prolly fall over if you get a good breath of it, I was working in a fertilizer plant and they had gallons and gallons of this in big tanks and I was on a 30,000 gallon tank and the pressure relief valve did it's job and when it did I remeber waking up from falling 15 ft bein dragged cause my Co worker smelled something and me on thw ground so I was bein dragged away like wtf
Your very lucky
Joel I was one of the people on scene with Faribault Fire the day of the incident. Could you please send us a copy of this for training. We would greatly appriciate it.
Thanks Much
@johnmilewski5280 please send me your email address and I can. Sorry, it is so long since I responded. joelbon@yahoo.com
wow u got really close the smell was probably very intence!!
Wow……are those tanks allowed on the highways and byways that we all travel on?🤔🤦🏻♀️
I haul it to farmers. The tanker I pull holds 16 tonnes of it. There are so many safety features though the probability of something like this happening is very low. If a hose, pipe, or valve blows off, there is actually a valve built into the tanker that will slam shut automatically and instantly to stop it from leaking out. Not to mention the tanker shell itself is 1/2" thick wall.
Poor animals that died from that cloud 😞
Well I do know one thing, that soil will be quite fertile for a while 😂
That must be the hose whipping around, failed coupling?
Exciting to watch, sad the death to all wildlife under that ground hugging white cloud.
Don't play hero just and say you're blessings
The cloud of death 😳
Wtf is up with that pole 2:08 minutes in ?
How come you didn't walk over to shut off the valve?
I would have let you if you were here
I could have held my breath and ran over.. :) I'm kidding. Amazing capture of video and I'm glad you were okay sir.
yep and burn the crap out of your skin while doing that.
At first I thought you were serious
Indeed you are lucky!
Haha farmers is like iaint working in this today
They fertilized the Fuck outtof This field.!...
I love it. Do it again
One way to bleed off a tank
Death fog.
well, the rodents are no longer a problem
Joel, I'd love to have this for training purposes as well... If that's possible, I'd be more than happy to send you my personal E-mail addy...
sorry if I didn't reply before, but, yes, I would be happy to give you a link to the original file. It is much better quality than this video. If you are still interested just get hold of me. joelbon@yahoo.com
Now here's something I would prolly go along with getting banned from being used.
+Bob Kerbs It is too important for farming to being banned. I wouldn't go along with that. If properly taken care of it is safe. Sort of the same thing with LP tanks. If properly taken care of they are safe.
+Joel Hershberger If it's fertilizer isn't there a safer alternative? Like cow poop?
it puts nitrogen back into the ground that corn needs
You see bob, we have destroyed the quality of our soil by over farming it. So now we feel it is necessary to inject man made nitrogen into the soil so we can keep our big yields up. And since we only care about big yields, we are willing to risk human lives and the environment to get them. Have a nice day.
Andrew Corbett Well since air is already 78% nitrogen how is this awful for the environment? I know this stuff is dangerous but out of the hundreds of thousands of tanks that get used each year this is just one.....
So.. Not really a leak is it.. Lol.. Definitely not a drip drip drip situation...
Well that’s not good
Very good chance of an explosion here as well, I believe. You're certainly hitting the LEL of the gas. Maybe it's too rich though? I'm no expert...
On its own it is possible for anhydrous ammonia to explode but very unlikely. It takes about 16 - 25% air concentration and 1200 degrees Fahrenheit for ignition.
Randy Brown The autoignition temperature of Anhydrous Ammonia is above its combustion temperature, meaning-- in essence-- that it's not a large explosion risk. You need a concentration with plenty of air in it, but not too much, air without too much humidity to convert the anhydrous to, well, hydrous (ammonia in solution), and an ignition source that's the temperature of an oxyacetylene torch. Far more likely would be a dangerous reaction with another chemical in the area, or chemical poisoning.