Within the last three weeks, there have been four deaths and two cases of severe Injuries caused by explosions in local workshops" con-Sequent on the wrongful or careless Use of alcohol.
In one instance the explosion curred while a crack in a steel drum was being welded: in the second, burning waste was carelessly thrown fon a tin which was covered by a lid which was, however, pierced by two small holes: in a third alcohol was being poured from a tin on to a fre! and, due to the fact that" both witnesses are dead, it 1s not known what occurred in the fourth instance, In all eases a source of ignition was resented to an alr-alcohol mixtt which becomes explosive if alcohol present in any. proportion between three and 13 per cent. Tt is obvious view of these accidents that a Warning to. workshop owners and employees is very necessary, The Industrial" Section of the Shanghai Municipal Council in issuing this warning points out that work: shops using industrial alcohol for any urpose—as a thinner for varnish In leather and furniture shops, or as a solvent for essential olls, or in' the making of seasoning powder, of for any other purpose, should realise the explosive possibility of an alcohol-alr mixture,
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