Exploded TV

[jakeniloc]

Over the weekend an old TV must have fell from a shelf in our workshop/shed. This caused an almighty explosion and has resulted in bits of TV screen and white powdery stuff everywhere. The workshop is full of open boxes of tools and materials etc.

Can anyone advise as to how to deal with this. Can we salvage our tools and get this cleaned up. I have been told it is particulalry hazardous but the local Environmental Health man doesn't have a clue, other than where to take a damaged TV. We have locked up the place until we know what to do. Can anyone give any help or advice, this would be greatly appreciated.

 

[dextrous]

Toxicity
Older color CRTs may contain toxic phosphors used for production of red. The rear glass tube of modern CRTs may be made from leaded glass, which represent an environmental hazard if disposed of improperly.[41] By the time personal computers were produced, glass in the front panel (the viewable portion of the CRT) used barium rather than lead, though the rear of the CRT was still produced from leaded glass. Monochrome CRTs typically do not contain enough leaded glass to fail EPA tests.

Although, my old fella was a TV repairman for many years and we used to have the occasional TV Tube catastophic failure when he brought them home for fixing Never bothered us hoovering it up, apart from the fact that we all glow in the dark now.

Not much help, but it's a start

 

[JohnD]

I have been told it is particulalry hazardous

Who by? Someone who has access to information that the Hazardous Waste man doesn't?

 

[mattylad]

wear a dust mask & gloves & just wipe your tools down, hoover up & throw away the bag etc.

It will be fine.

 

[electronicsuk]

I can't imagine it being any worse than a smashed fluorescent tube. If anything it should be a better situation due to the lack of mercury. I don't know what phosphor they use in TV sets, but I'm sure there are far worse things in life to worry about.

 

[Mickymoody]

Sorry to ressurect such an old thread..

I've been involved in the disposal of old CRT screens, and the main danger perceived was the removal of the HT lead to the top of the screen, and a thick insulated device was used to remove the cap, possibly because 30KV goes through that in operation, and I've worked on dead monitors, that an inadvertant short has temporarily switched the monitor on, even when unplugged, and getting hit with 30KV is not going to be good. Once the cap was removed, a device to earth the tube was inserted into the hole left by it, attached firmly to earth (unsure what it did), but when inserted the energy released was felt as a vibration through the device. But a broken/smashed tube, just hisses as the vacuum is lost, and the phosphur leaks out.

So there is perceived danger there, but much more likely to be like a broken flo tube, I'd suggest that an energy saving bulb blowing is far more dangerous. You must open all windows in the vicinity, you must contain the remains in a plastic bag, it must be disposed of properly. PC gone mad?