PatrickGSR94
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We have a client with a pavement paint striping business, that moved into about half of a ~6.000 SF building several months ago. The city is now looking for some sort of letter or code analysis regarding the building and the amounts and types of paint this business is storing in the building.
As far as I know the building is unsprinkled. The owner sent me MSDS documents and quantities of the types of paint they used, the largest of which is about 450 gallons of oil-based acrylic pavement marking paint.
The MSDS's say the paint is a Flammable Liquid - Category 2. Building and Fire Codes in the hazardous material MAQ tables only list classes IA, IB and IC for flammable liquids, then for combustible liquids it has class II, IIIA and IIIB. I've seen some tables that say a Class 2 liquid per OSHA could be either Class II or IIIA in the NFPA, depending on the liquid's flash point. But the only thing I can find in the MSDS regarding flash point is this: "Closed cup: -17°C (1.4°F) [Pensky-Martens Closed Cup]". Soooo.... the flash point is below freezing????
None of this makes any sense. If the paint is Class II then they have too much of it even with fire-rated storage cabinets. If it's Class IIIA then they should be able to store 450 gallons in cabinets since the 330 gallons allowed can be doubled with proper storage cabinets. But all of that hinges on the material's flash point, which according to the data sheet is less than 73°F which should make it a Class IA, the MOST hazardous of flammable liquids???
As far as I know the building is unsprinkled. The owner sent me MSDS documents and quantities of the types of paint they used, the largest of which is about 450 gallons of oil-based acrylic pavement marking paint.
The MSDS's say the paint is a Flammable Liquid - Category 2. Building and Fire Codes in the hazardous material MAQ tables only list classes IA, IB and IC for flammable liquids, then for combustible liquids it has class II, IIIA and IIIB. I've seen some tables that say a Class 2 liquid per OSHA could be either Class II or IIIA in the NFPA, depending on the liquid's flash point. But the only thing I can find in the MSDS regarding flash point is this: "Closed cup: -17°C (1.4°F) [Pensky-Martens Closed Cup]". Soooo.... the flash point is below freezing????
None of this makes any sense. If the paint is Class II then they have too much of it even with fire-rated storage cabinets. If it's Class IIIA then they should be able to store 450 gallons in cabinets since the 330 gallons allowed can be doubled with proper storage cabinets. But all of that hinges on the material's flash point, which according to the data sheet is less than 73°F which should make it a Class IA, the MOST hazardous of flammable liquids???