Safety in a nitrocellulose plant

The later stages of nitrocellulose production are considered less hazardous since the nitrocotton is handled in suspension in water. It is important to prevent the nitrocellulose from becoming dry. Particular attention should be paid to washing down of the clinker bricks or asphalt floor regularly with water. 

In the building where stabilization and the final purification of nitrocellulose are carried out meticulous cleanness must be observed. The workmen should wear shoes with rubber or wooden soles, and this footwear must be kept in special boxes or on shelves situated in the rooms in which it is to be worn. It is forbidden to walk outside these rooms while wearing the special footwear so that neither sand nor mud are carried in. 

Pascal, Explosifs, poudres, gaz de combat, Hermann, Paris, 1925. 

Technical Report PB 925, Explosive Plants DAG., Kriimmel, Diineberg, Christianstadt, U.S. Dept, of Commerce, Washington, D.C., 1945. 

CIOS XXVII-73, Final Report. Manufacture of Nitrocellulose. Deutsche Sprengstoffe, Aschau, Ebenhausen. 

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