Chemical Safety Headlines =46rom Google Friday, July 29, 2011 8:47:36 AM A service of the ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety Connecting Chemistry and Safety at http://www.dchas.org All article summaries and tags are archived at http://pinboard.in/u:dchas Table of Contents (13 articles) HAZMAT SITUATION AT MANSION HOUSE SENDS 3 ST. LOUIS OFFICERS TO HOSPITAL Tags: us_MO, public, release, injury, drugs FIRE AT ENTEC COMPOSITE MACHINES, INC Tags: us_UT, industrial, release, response, epoxy OFFICIALS SAY NO HAZMAT PROBLEM AT W. NORRITON HOME Tags: us_PA, public, release, response, unknown_chemical HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPILL IN LOWER Tags: us_NJ, transportation, release, response, solvent HAZMAT SITUATION PROMPTS EVACUATIONS Tags: public, release, response, unknown_chemical DECATUR POLICE ARREST TWO IN HOTEL METH BUST Tags: us_AL, public, release, response, meth_lab CAUSE OF FIRE AT PHARMACEUTICAL LAB STILL UNKNOWN Tags: Canada, laboratory, explosion, response, drugs, hvac_chemicals, pharmaceutical, solvent, follow-up CHEMICAL SPILL CONTAINED IN BUILDING, OFFICIALS SAY Tags: us_TX, public, release, response, ethyl_acetate HAZMAT INCIDENT HAS BURNSIDE AVENUE ON LOCKDOWN Tags: us_PA, public, discovery, response, unknown_chemical UPDATE: CHEMICAL LEAK AT ASHEVILLE TRUCKING COMPANY Tags: us_NC, transportation, release, response, sulfuric_acid CHINESE CHEMICAL WASTE TAINTS RIVER, SPARKS PANIC BUYING OF BOTTLED WATER Tags: China, public, release, environmental, water RESIDENTS EVACUATED AFTER FREIGHT TRAIN CARRYING CHEMICALS DERAILS IN CALIFORNIA Tags: us_CA, transportation, release, response, unknown_chemical FIRE AT LITTLE ROCK PLANT EXTINGUISHED Tags: us_AR, industrial, fire, response, flammables --------------------------------------------- HAZMAT SITUATION AT MANSION HOUSE SENDS 3 ST. LOUIS OFFICERS TO HOSPITAL http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/article_65b5c02e-b964- 11e0-a6ce-001a4bcf6878.html Tags: us_MO, public, release, injury, drugs ST. LOUIS =95 Three police officers were sent to the hospital after encountering a substance at the Mansion House apartment building this afternoon that made them feel ill. Police said the officers were executing a search warrant in one of the units in the building, at 300 North Fourth Street, when they opened a container and were hit with a strong smell, apparently from some sort of chemical substance. The search warrant was not drug-relate, authorities said. They experienced headaches, breathing problems and sweating, but are expected to be OK, police said. Police and the fire department's hazmat team are investigating and do not yet have any more information about what was inside the container. --------------------------------------------- FIRE AT ENTEC COMPOSITE MACHINES, INC http://www.abc4.com/content/news/top_stories/story/Fire-at-Entec-Composite -Machines-Inc/tXkXZqN2SEKqeRJOjX48pg.cspx Tags: us_UT, industrial, release, response, epoxy SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4 News)- Fire and hazmat crews responded to a South Salt Lake business tonight after employees complained of smoke and a terrible smell. The incident was reported at Entec Composite Machines at 2975 south 300 west. Crews investigated and found four large containers of epoxy had some type of chemical reaction. Investigators say this reaction was responsible for the smell. --------------------------------------------- OFFICIALS SAY NO HAZMAT PROBLEM AT W. NORRITON HOME http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/crime&id=8254817 Tags: us_PA, public, release, response, unknown_chemical WEST NORRITON, TWP., PENNSYLVANIA. - July 28, 2011 (WPVI) -- Residents of a Montgomery County neighborhood are safe and sound, after living through a hazmat scare on Wednesday night. Firefighters had thought they discovered a meth lab at a home on the street. They blocked off traffic for more than nine hours, while they examined chemicals in the home and removed them. Officials later determined the questionable materials in the house were chemicals the homeowner used for a cleaning service. The township says the hazmat scare started when one of its employees was delivering a sewage bill to the house, and smelled a strange odor. That employee also spotted unlabeled chemical bottles in the yard. --------------------------------------------- HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPILL IN LOWER http://www.shorenewstoday.com/snt/news/index.php/cape-may/cape-may-gazette /14158-hazardous-materials-spill-in-lower.html Tags: us_NJ, transportation, release, response, solvent LOWER TOWNSHIP - Household solvents and building materials caused a chemical reaction when they mixed, causing smoke to pour out of a township trash truck on Wednesday, July 20. Emergency personnel responded on a HazMat basis. Officials said the materials were picked up in the township=92s Tranquility section, from a house undergoing renovations. The smoking truck=92s contents were dumped at the township=92s Public Works yard on Seashore Road, where HazMat personnel used sand to stop the chemical reaction. --------------------------------------------- HAZMAT SITUATION PROMPTS EVACUATIONS http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/local/marion_county/hazmat-situation-prompt s-evacuations Tags: public, release, response, unknown_chemical INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Three Pike Township businesses were evacuated Wednesday morning following a hazardous materials incident in the 7900 block of Georgetown Road. Employees noticed some 55-galon plastic barrels were expanding under pressure from their contents and called 911. Pike Township firefighters arrived on the scene and immediately began trying to determine what was inside the containers and how to proceed. None of the containers leaked or spilled any substance. HAZMAT teams wrapped up their investigation just before 1 p.m. and declared the scene safe. --------------------------------------------- DECATUR POLICE ARREST TWO IN HOTEL METH BUST http://www.whnt.com/news/whnt-decatur-police-arrest-two-in-hotel-meth-bust -20110728,0,6562777.story Tags: us_AL, public, release, response, meth_lab Around 10:00 Wednesday night, a maintenance worker at the Motel 6 on 6th Avenue in Decatur noticed a strong smell of chemicals coming from one of the rooms. He then called Decatur Police. Topics Hotel and Accommodation Industry Crimes Methamphetamine (drug) See more topics =BB Sign up for news & weather email alerts from WHNT NEWS 19! Upon arrival, they found an active meth lab inside the hotel room. Officers arrested David Barton and his mother, Diana Wolfe. The Decatur Police Department's Anti-Crime Unit and Organized Crime Unit reponded to the scene. Decatur Fire and Rescue sent a HAZMAT team and decontamination team to clear the motel room of hazardous materials and decontaminate Barton and Wolfe. --------------------------------------------- CAUSE OF FIRE AT PHARMACEUTICAL LAB STILL UNKNOWN http://edmonton.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110727/edm_pharmafire_11 0727/20110727/?hub=EdmontonHome Tags: Canada, laboratory, explosion, response, drugs, hvac_chemicals, pharmaceutical, solvent, follow-up Investigators are still searching for a cause after a massive chemical fire at Naeja Pharmaceuticals in southeast Edmonton Tuesday. The blaze caused $7 million in damage. Naeja Pharmaceuticals President and CEO Chris Micetich told CTV News a fire broke out over the lunch hour Tuesday in a refrigerator used to store chemicals. He says staff heard what sounded like a champagne bottle popping in the fridge. "They opened up the fridge and they noticed there was a solvent that had spilled a little bit and while they were trying to determine what happened there was a spark and a flame broke out within the refrigerator." Edmonton Fire Rescue received a 911 call after staff failed to contain the chemical. Sixty-five staff members working at the lab escaped safely. An air quality advisory in southeast Edmonton was ordered following the explosion and blaze, with officials asking nearby residents to stay indoors -- keeping their furnaces and air conditioners off due to potentially toxic smoke. --------------------------------------------- CHEMICAL SPILL CONTAINED IN BUILDING, OFFICIALS SAY http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/blotter/ent ries/2011/07/28/chemical_spill_contained_in_bu.html?cxntfid=blogs_the_bl otter Tags: us_TX, public, release, response, ethyl_acetate An Austin Fire Department HazMat team is at the site of a chemical spill inside a building in Northeast Austin. Officials said two gallons of ethyl acetate was spilled in a building at 8609 Cross Park Drive, near Cameron Road. The spill of the chemical, which is commonly used in glues and nail polish removers, has been contained, officials said. No injuries have been reported. Officials said the hazard from the chemical is primarily explosive vapors. --------------------------------------------- HAZMAT INCIDENT HAS BURNSIDE AVENUE ON LOCKDOWN http://norristown.patch.com/articles/hazmat-incident-has-burnside-ave-on-l ockdown Tags: us_PA, public, discovery, response, unknown_chemical Police and fire units responded to a call for a "Hazardous Materials Incident" shortly before 5 p.m. today and are still on the scene with Hazmat crews and other emergency personnel. Officials expect to be working on the scene into the early morning hours. The original call came from a West Norriton License & Inspection official who arrived at the home at 134 Burnside Ave. sometime after 4 p.m. to deliver a sewage bill. The L&I officer reportedly smelled a strong chemical odor coming from the rear of the house and called West Norristown police to investigate. Once on the scene, police located a number of unlabeled containers behind the house that appeared to contain chemicals. Police alerted the West Norriton Fire Department and Hazmat crews of the situation. Fire officials have dismissed rumors circulating through the neighborhood that the chemicals are part of a meth lab operation. --------------------------------------------- UPDATE: CHEMICAL LEAK AT ASHEVILLE TRUCKING COMPANY http://www.wlos.com/shared/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wlos_vid_5036.shtml Tags: us_NC, transportation, release, response, sulfuric_acid Authorities responded to the scene of a chemical leak at an Asheville trucking company this morning. An Asheville Fire Department spokesperson says emergency crews were called to Conway Trucking off Swannanoa River Rd. around 8:30 this morning after sulfuric acid began leaking from a 55 gallon drum in a truck. Haz-Mat members found the leak on the bottom of the barrel. Crews flipped it over and were able to contain the leak. The company's building was evacuated as a precaution. There were no injuries reported. --------------------------------------------- CHINESE CHEMICAL WASTE TAINTS RIVER, SPARKS PANIC BUYING OF BOTTLED WATER http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/90055516?Chinese%20chemical%20wast e%20taints%20river%2C%20sparks%20panic%20buying%20of%20bottled%20water Tags: China, public, release, environmental, water Supermarkets in the southwestern Chinese city of Mianyang were facing shortages of bottled water Wednesday amid panic buying after water supply from a river was contaminated by waste from a manganese plant. Government fire trucks were also delivering water to communities after local authorities learned that heavy rains washed waste into the Fujiang River from the Xichuan Minjiang Electrolytic Manganese Plant in the county of Songpan. The river accounts for 70 percent of the drinking water supply of Mianyang communities. Tests of water samples from the river showed there is 1.888 milligrams of manganese per liter and 3.349 milligrams of ammonia and nitrogen per liter. The safe level is 0.1 and 0.5 milligrams, respectively. --------------------------------------------- RESIDENTS EVACUATED AFTER FREIGHT TRAIN CARRYING CHEMICALS DERAILS IN CALIFORNIA http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/07/27/residents-evacuated-after-freight-tra in-carrying-chemicals-derails-in/ Tags: us_CA, transportation, release, response, unknown_chemical Residents in Antelope Valley, Calif., have been evacuated after a freight train carrying at least 14 cars of hazardous material derailed, The Los Angeles Times reported. Officials are concerned about any chemical or gas leak that could have occurred, according to the report. The long Union Pacific freight train contained 63 cars and about half the train left the track, Reuters reported. Some were overturned. The exact chemical contents were not immediately known. Two hazmat teams and about 60 fire department personnel responded to the town, which is a rural community near Los Angeles. --------------------------------------------- FIRE AT LITTLE ROCK PLANT EXTINGUISHED http://www.todaysthv.com/news/article/166488/2/Fire-at-Little-Rock-plant-e xtinguished Tags: us_AR, industrial, fire, response, flammables ITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) -- Little Rock Police are giving the all clear after a small fire shut down production L.M. Wind Power. According to Adam Ruple with L.M. Wind Power, an accident at the facility on Frazier Pike set a chemical cabinet, filled with a highly flammable material, on fire around 10:30 am Wednesday. Ruple says staff tried to put it out themselves, but when they could not, police and HAZMAT teams were called. Authorities evacuated the plant and shut down production until the fire was contained. ---------------------------------------------
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