- Author
-
Jones, C. E.
- Title
- Evaluation of Safety Standards for Gasoline and Kerosene Cans. Final Report.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Sponsor
- Consumer Product Safety Commission
- Report
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NBSIR 78-1414,
September 1977,
70 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
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children
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containers
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failure analysis
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gasoline
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hazards
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kerosene
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safety
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standards
- Abstract
- Accidents involving home use of gasoline and other flammable and combustible liquid containers were analyzed to define the functions a safe container should perform and how the containers failed to perform these functions. Safety standards were evaluated for applicability to these functional failures. The standards were considered inadequate to prevent child access to fluids in the containers, somewhat adequate for fluid management and isolation from ignition sources and very adequate for container structure and materials.