Safety Issues
- It is recommended that a steel bucket is used. If a plastic bucket is used, it may crack, warp or melt.
- The bucket should be well labelled.
- The sand must also be cleaned of all flammable material.
- Act of throwing sand on a fire could cause it to be blown into eyes causing irritation
- Sometimes used as a suppressant for class D fires. The sand must be completely dry or the intense heat of the burning metal will quickly flash the moisture into steam, splattering the burning metal on surrounding material and the operator.
- Sand cannot reliably be used to extinguish burning magnesium, sodium, lithium, or other strongly reducing metals. These metals have the ability to strip oxygen from the sand, resulting in an even more intense fire.
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