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CPSC, Cenex Harvest States Cooperatives Announce Recall to Inspect Propane Gas

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Name of Product:
Propane gas
Hazard:

The propane may not have contained enough odorant to allow consumers to smell leaking gas, presenting a fire, explosion or thermal burn hazard to consumers.

Remedy:
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Recall Date:
December 22, 2000
Consumer Contact

Consumers with questions should call Country Energy, LLC, an affiliate of CHS, 24 hours per day at (800) 635-3998.

Recall Details

Description:

WASHINGTON, D.C. - In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Cenex Harvest States Cooperatives (CHS) of Inver Grove Heights, Minn., is voluntarily coordinating the testing of propane gas delivered to dealers in five states. The propane may not have contained enough odorant to allow consumers to smell leaking gas, presenting a fire, explosion or thermal burn hazard to consumers. 

CHS learned of two explosions involving propane gas in Montana that resulted in four injuries. CHS is coordinating the testing of propane gas distributed to the following dealers to ensure that the propane produced at the CHS Refinery in Laurel, Montana contained adequate quantities of odorant. 

Idaho 
Bingham Co-op, Blackfoot 
CHS Propane Plant, Challis 
Farmers Supply Cooperative, Council 
CHS Propane Plant, Jerome 

Montana 
Farmers Union Oil, Baker 
Rocky Mountain Supply, Belgrade 
Farmers Union Oil, Chinook 
Columbus Propane, Columbus 
Mountain View Co-op, Dutton 
Farmers Union Oil, Great Falls 
Farmers Union Association, Hardin 
CHS Country Operations, Havre 
CHS Country Operations, Kalispsell 
Town and Country Co-op, Laurel 
Central Montana Propane, Lewistown 
Farmers Union Oil, Lodge Grass 
CHS Country Operations, Miles City 
CHS Country Operations, Missoula 
Farmers Union Oil, Worden 

Oregon 
CHS Propane Plant, John Day 

Washington 
Skagit Farmers Supply, Mt. Vernon 

Wyoming
Johnson County Co-op, Buffalo 
Farmers Cooperative, Gillette 
CHS Propane Plant, Gillette 
Farmers Co-op Oil, Sheridan 
Big Horn Co-op Association, Worland 

Consumers who had propane deliveries or purchased propane from these dealers since June 1, 2000, should immediately contact their propane gas suppliers or retail locations where portable cylinders were filled to arrange for testing of the propane. The amount of odorant in the propane can be corrected on-site if the levels are found to be too low to detect by smell. Consumers with questions should call Country Energy, LLC, an affiliate of CHS, 24 hours per day at (800) 635-3998. 

CHS is now working with CPSC to supplement CHS's announcement of this testing made earlier this month, to help further disseminate this information to consumers who may have purchased this product. 

Remedy:

Consumers who had propane deliveries or purchased propane from these dealers since June 1, 2000, should immediately contact their propane gas suppliers or retail locations where portable cylinders were filled to arrange for testing of the propane. The amount of odorant in the propane can be corrected on-site if the levels are found to be too low to detect by smell. 

Incidents/Injuries:

CHS learned of two explosions involving propane gas in Montana that resulted in four injuries.

Manufacturer(s):
Cenex Harvest States Cooperatives (CHS) of Inver Grove Heights, Minn.
Recall number:
01-061

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