Diesel Spill Prompts Hazmat Response In Boston

BOSTON, MA — Some 75 gallons of diesel fuel spilled after a tractor trailer backed into a parked truck rupturing its fuel tank and prompting a level 2 hazmat response from Boston Fire Department officials late Sunday night in the Seaport.

Officials said no injuries were reported, and all companies were called to the scene to contain the leak on the pier.

Companies used a containment pool to catch the diesel leaking from two 100-gallon diesel tanks on the tractor trailer.

The hazmat crews stayed on the scene with Mass DEP, the state police, MassPort and Clean Harbors for hours during the cleanup.

The site part industrial, part office building built on a 10.52-acre MassPort-owned site overlooking Boston Harbor.

Tenants include BBX Transportation, CEVA Logistics, Lee Kennedy Company and JCDecaux and office tenants include Cesari & McKenna, Citizens Energy, Optimus Ride, Steffian Bradley Architects, and WSP Flack + Kurtz, according to BuildUp.com.

Fire officials define a Level 2 hazmat incident as: fitting one of the following:

• a spill in excess of 50 gallons of petroleum products such as gasoline, diesel oil, fuel oil, etc.;
• unconfirmed reports of chemical spills, leaking containers, process malfunction accidents;
• fires producing irritating, corrosive or flammable vapors or other hazardous conditions.

Read about other recent hazmat situations:

• Hydrogen Peroxide Spill Prompts Evacuation
• Congress Street Building Evacuated In Boston's Financial District
• Hazmat Situation At Harvard Lab

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