Slippery when wet!

[Desk Jockey]

We had a call Tuesday night with a food grade oil leak, over a thousand gallons of soybean oil spilled throughout a food processing plant across 3-levels approximately 2500sq/ft per level. We put in 40 man hours 4-extraction trucks extracting most of the evening Tuesday.


Oil was everywhere, just as water would travel so did the soybean oil. Down pipes and electrical chases, through cracks and seams in the decking. Degreaser was used to break it up and diluted renovate was used as a rinse agent.


Disposal was complicated, from our waste tanks we drained it tanker truck that was staged downhill from the extraction units. 4-extraction trucks were used in extracting and final rinse down. Some of the cleanup include in a crawlspace type area that was tight and awkward but also need oil removal.


We are now awaiting a enzyme degreasing agent the IH listed in his protocol to begin a more detailed cleaning for odor and residue. Monday the fun starts all over again! We have a weeks’ worth of detail cleaning.



























We went back this AM, had to clean the roof today. They were concerned that the oil might damage it. Nice cool 32 degree morning, good day to pressure wash!

Well at least it wasn’t windy!

 

[dgardner]

The soybean oil tank was on the roof?

Just think of the fun cleaning all your equipment.

 

[Desk Jockey]

There was a pipe along the roof that feeds the oil throughout the plant. Through some miscommunication that line was cut.

Ruined 15-sections of vacuum hose. They are sitting in a pile at our shop. Smell like French fries. LOL

 

[Mark Saiger]

All I can say is WOW!

That is a lot of work right there.

Hope they are going to be OK with the invoice.....

That is a lot of HARD meticulous work!

 

[GCCLee]

15 sections?

I was looking at the pics an thought poor hoser aint gonna like this : )


Sent from da parking garage of dee detention center

 

[Mardie]

$$$$$$ Wow I bet they gave some serious thought as to who they were going to get to do this job. That says a lot about your company. Your quality control guys are going to earn there keep on this one.

 

[Shorty]

Why didn't you extract with bonnets ??

 

[dealtimeman]

Steve look out of place and very much out of practice.

Get some regular degrease first like the one from diversey then on the final clean use the one in the protocol. Or if the one listed in the protocol is not expensive you can just run with that.

Can you bill a consultation fee in the bill? If so how much would that be?

 

[Desk Jockey]

Look how wet with oil Steve was, looks like he slide into third.

Have to go the the IH protocol.

Mark they know how much the initial mitigation ballpark was and asked us to continue with detail cleaning this week. So we should be good money wise, our issue will be time and thoroughly clean so they can complete their build. They spent 500K in the last few days removing framing and a metal sandwiched ceiling with oil saturated insulation in the middle.

This plant, one of several they own across the country is processing 1-millon dollars a day in product. They are more concerned about cross contamination to the processing area and of this mishap slowing their opening date for the expansion.

Our bill while Surdi bucks to us, is pennies to them. Especially when you consider what its cost them already, and what it could have cost them had they had down time.

 

[amygeorge]

Soyoil is in EVERYTHING and in high demand! You’ll be fine $$ wise… But the poor farmers who sold it to the oil press co., that’s a different story… $$ is in processing. Enough about the low cost of farming and commodities - if the rednecks didn’t love it, they would do something else for a living - like get a good paying job. Well, that’s what I tell my family. It would be the reason I have 3 jobs.

 

[Vivers]

Wow, the kind of work that some you guys do is amazing.

 

[Desk Jockey]

Yea you just never know what you're going to see here.

 

[Cleantechsk]

Trinity and one mf pad.
Done
Instantly encap all that! And vacuum it out the next day.
You might have to use a little more then 4oz/gallon though.
Like magic



In all seriousness looks like a fun job lol.


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[dealtimeman]

So no consultation fee?

 

[Desk Jockey]

Well I plan on charging one to Dan for calling me when I was at home sick.

 

[dealtimeman]

I can collect in person, it is not that difficult for me.

 

[dealtimeman]

On a serious not did yall start yet?

 

[Desk Jockey]

This one is going to choke a horse. Ben Surdi money I'm telling you.

I'll buy all your drinks at the next MF.

 

[Mike Draper]

Oh my hell, looks like I'll be at the next fest. I like chocolate milk.

 

[Mike Draper]

I bet it'll take months to get the French fry smell out. It's better than a sewage smell though.

 

[Desk Jockey]

We wrote the hoses and solution lines off to the job and already picked up 6-sets and have the rest on order. Just too much of a time killer to clean up at this point and nasty rancid fry odor. We may try soaking one in enzymes in a kiddie pool when we get some time but most are going to the dumpster.

 

[Desk Jockey]

Oh my hell, looks like I'll be at the next fest. I like chocolate milk.

Hey now I only meant that for Lockhart since he doesn't drink. LOL

But I can be a big spender, I can catch your chocolate milk too!

 

[D Rice]

Richard, Is that the Potato Palace? That isn't the name of the place but it smells like that. I can see why you would pitch the hoses.

 

[Desk Jockey]

Near Leon? No that's on the other side of town, this is when you first enter.