Posted: January 8th, 2016
ABC Company was celebrating their working 1 million hours without a lost time incident by sponsoring a camping trip for their employees and their families. To light the campfire, one of the workers tried to use a match. When he rubbed the match head against the box, it did not ignite. Why?
- ABC Company was celebrating their working 1 million hours without a lost time incident by sponsoring a camping trip for their employees and their families. To light the campfire, one of the workers tried to use a match. When he rubbed the match head against the box, it did not ignite. Why?
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The worker used a strike-anywhere match instead of a safety match. |
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The box did not contain red phosphorus and powdered glass. |
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The match did not contain antimony trisulfide, sulfur, and potassium chlorate. |
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The match contained tetraphosphorus trisulfide, sulfur, lead oxide, and powdered glass |