BITUMEN PIPE BURSTS
Wharf Sprayed At Lyttelton
When a heavy reinforced rubber hose burst on the Oil Wharf at Lyttelton on Friday night, hot bitumen shot up to a height of several feet and sprayed the wharf. Some of the bitumen flowed into the sea where it immediately solidified. The bitumen was being pumped from the tanker Plagiola when the pipe burst. Pumping was stopped at once. There was only one man near the hose and he had a lucky escape from severe burns or worse.
The harbour master (Captain A. R. Champion) praised the promptness of this man in geting the Plagiola’s engineers, to stop pumping. “He could have been killed with the steam and hot bitumen,” said Captain Champion. The hoses had been tested and the pumping was being done at a pressure of only 501 b. It was only the second shipment of hot bitumed to be discharged at Lyttelton.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29112, 26 January 1960, Page 11
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