Officials were in the dark on key chemical in fatal Nitro industrial site incident

Officials were in the dark on key chemical in fatal Nitro industrial site incident

The signal word is “danger.” That’s the word, indicating risk deemed to be severe, assigned to the hazardous chemical M-2000A on the proprietary alkaline aqueous solution’s safety data sheet, a document federally required from chemical manufacturers to communicate information on how to handle hazardous materials. But M-2000A wasn’t on another federally required chemical inventory form annually mandated for industrial operators like Nitro’s Catal…