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Container Freight Services Terminal; San Francisco, California

San Francisco, California | 1989-Mar-31

Initial Notification: On March 31, 1989, the terminal manager at Container Freight Services in San Francisco learned that a shipment of pressurized cylinders of the highly combustible liquefied gas silane had been loaded next to cylinders of nitrous oxide, a strong oxidizer. USCG district 11.

Incident Details
Products of concern:Liquefied gas silane, nitrous oxide
Latitude (approximate): 37° 47.17′ North
Longitude (approximate): 122° 25.44′ West