Hauling of finished product is
done normally without any issues. The vast majority of finished product travel
by truck at some point. Here is a recent story where the finished product did
not make it to its destination.
An aluminum spill from a
tractor-trailer carrying aluminum for ALCOA in Alcoa, Tennessee in the United
States stopped traffic northbound on Alcoa Highway for well over an hour during
the evening of Wednesday. May13th, 2015.
Alcoa Police Sargent. said
the semi truck, hauling thousands of pounds of aluminum, had an apparent
equipment malfunction, causing the rig’s trailer to break loose, flip over and
dump the aluminum coils in the middle of Alcoa Highway.
The
accident happened around 6:50 p.m. Wednesday as the truck rounded the sharply
curving onramp from Hunt Road onto Alcoa Highway. Alcoa Police responded
minutes later, and shut down traffic northbound so construction crews could
remove the aluminum from the road and from the grass on the edge of the ramp.
Traffic headed
north and coming into Alcoa from side roads met with considerable delays. At
8:30 p.m., lines of cars were still moving slowly down intersecting arteries as
crews collected the last of the heavy coils. No one was hurt in the incident.
The Aluminium
Plant Safety Blog is grateful that no one was injured in this incident. One of
the editors has traveled on this highway and are amazed that no one was
injured.
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