Other incidents of significance

• a mobile manufacturing unit belonging to AEL overturned, resulting in the spillage of 3 tons of base emulsion and 300kg of ammonium nitrate prill;
• 1 000l of oil leaked from a pipe in AEL's nitrates complex at Modderfontein into a stormwater system, and then into a dam within Modderfontein;
• nitric acid was spilled into the stormwater system while a tanker was being loaded at AEL's nitrates complex;
• 2,5 tons of ImproChem's chemical products were spilled on a national highway, leading to the temporary closure of the road, after a container on a truck split.

In all cases, clean-up was carried out successfully.