Chemical Safety Headlines =46rom Google
Monday, November 21, 2011 7:55:06 AM
A service of the ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety
Table of Contents (12 articles)
FORT COLLINS MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS SICKENED BY MYSTERIOUS ODOR
Tags: us_CO, laboratory, release, injury, unknown_chemical
SACRED HEART STUDENTS ILL AFTER LAB INCIDENT
Tags: us_NY, laboratory, release, injury, unknown_chemical
EXPLOSION ROCKS RURAL OHIO
Tags: us_OH, transportation, explosion, injury, natural_gas
MAN INJURED IN METH LAB FIRE IN RICHMOND'S FAN
Tags: us_VA, public, fire, injury, meth_lab
HOSPITAL AIR QUALITY TESTED, FOUND SAFE, AFTER CHEMICAL LEAK
Tags: Canada, public, release, response, unknown_chemical
CREWS, MDE WORK TO CLEAN UP STICKY MESS
Tags: us_MD, industrial, release, environmental, sucrose
COVENTRY MAN OVERCOME BY FUMES FROM CLEANING FLUIDS MIX
Tags: United_Kingdom, public, release, injury, bleach, sulfuric_acid
FIREFIGHTERS TACKLE CHEMICAL SPILL AT MEDWAY MARITIME HOSPITAL
Tags: United_Kingdom, public, release, injury, unknown_chemical
POLICE: HOMEMADE CHEMICAL BOMB TOSSED INTO CONN. SCHOOL GYM, NO INJURIES OR DAMAGE REPORTED
Tags: us_CT, education, discovery, injury, bomb
CHEMICAL SPILL SHUTS DOWN RAILWAY STATION
Tags: Australia, transportation, release, response, bleach
14 DEAD IN CHINESE CHEMICAL PLANT EXPLOSION
Tags: China, industrial, explosion, death, unknown_chemical
EXPLOSION AT PAINT STORE IN ROANOKE COUNTY INJURES 1 MAN
Tags: us_VA, public, explosion, injury, unknown_chemical
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FORT COLLINS MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS SICKENED BY MYSTERIOUS ODOR
Tags: us_CO, laboratory, release, injury, unknown_chemical
FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- More than a dozen students were sent to the hospital after a mysterious odor swept through part of Blevins Middle School in Fort Collins.
The incident was first reported at about 12:30 p.m., initially from a laboratory classroom. Poudre Fire Authority investigated for nearly six hours and didn't locate the source. Investigators plan to return to the school on Saturday.
"When the firefighters arrived on scene they found the 12 students in front of the school and the remaining students in the process of being evacuated," said Poudre Fire spokesman Patrick Love.
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SACRED HEART STUDENTS ILL AFTER LAB INCIDENT
Tags: us_NY, laboratory, release, injury, unknown_chemical
More than 20 students at Sacred Heart Academy in Hempstead were taken to Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow on Friday as a precaution after complaining of headaches in a science lab, Nassau police and fire officials said.
While no one was injured, Nassau County Fire Marshal spokesman Vincent McManus said, the incident provided a good test of the county's mass casualty incident...
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EXPLOSION ROCKS RURAL OHIO
Tags: us_OH, transportation, explosion, injury, natural_gas
JACKSONTOWN, Ohio =97 Hooper Ridge was scarred yesterday by the explosion of a natural-gas pipeline that sent a plume of fire hundreds of feet into the air and set buildings ablaze in the Morgan County countryside.
Only slight injuries were reported from the huge blast, which authorities said was felt and heard up to 12 miles away.
The high-pressure interstate pipeline, built in 1963 and operated by the Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co., ruptured about 8:45 a.m., blowing apart three houses and a barn and charring trees and fields along Taylor Road.
John Sayers and his wife were staggered when the pipeline blew about 500 feet from their home. He recalled "an explosion and fire, and that's about it." His wife, Cathy, suffered minor leg burns. "Our house is destroyed. It's completely gone."
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MAN INJURED IN METH LAB FIRE IN RICHMOND'S FAN
Tags: us_VA, public, fire, injury, meth_lab
RICHMOND - Richmond Fire Officials say an apartment fire Saturday night has been linked to a methamphetamine lab in the city's Fan district.
Officials say the fire happened around 9:30 p.m. in an apartment building in the 3500 block of Grove Avenue.
When fire crews arrived, they found heavy smoke coming from the rear of the building.
Both the Drug Enforcement Agency and hazmat teams were on scene.
Officials say a man was removed from the building and transported to the hospital with significant burns. They say he was burned when he attempted to put out the fire.
This is the second meth lab fire in Richmond this year. That fire happened on Park Avenue in March.
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HOSPITAL AIR QUALITY TESTED, FOUND SAFE, AFTER CHEMICAL LEAK
Tags: Canada, public, release, response, unknown_chemical
The all-clear has been given after a chemical spill saw patients rushed out of affected rooms at St. Catharines General Hospital on the weekend.
A Code Brown alert =97 for a chemical spill =97 was issued at the hospital around 9 p.m. Saturday after a radiator was dislodged from a wall, leaking a material called Corroshield, which is used to decrease blockage in radiators. Its fumes can irritate the respiratory tract and cause eye irritation, headache, dizziness and nausea.
The incident affected the second through fifth floors, said Niagara Health System vice-president of patient services Anne Atkinson.
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CREWS, MDE WORK TO CLEAN UP STICKY MESS
Tags: us_MD, industrial, release, environmental, sucrose
BALTIMORE - Baltimore City Fire crews and the Maryland Department of the Environment are trying to clean up one sticky HazMat mess.
Crews were called to the 1100 block of Hull Street just before 10:00 p.m. for a corn syrup spill coming from the Domino Sugar plant.
A fire department spokesperson says that about 1,000 gallons of the sticky mess has spilled into the roadway and surrounding area so far.
Crews have been able to keep the syrup out of the storm drains.
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COVENTRY MAN OVERCOME BY FUMES FROM CLEANING FLUIDS MIX
Tags: United_Kingdom, public, release, injury, bleach, sulfuric_acid
A 51-year-old man from Coventry was taken to hospital after being overcome by chemical fumes while attempting to clean his house on Sunday.
The man brushed a sulphuric acid compound on bathroom tiles at the property in Brays Lane before spraying bleach over the top.
A spokesman for West Midlands Fire and Rescue Service said the two combined to give off a "pungent gas".
Two other people in the house were unaffected by the fumes.
Bill Gough from the fire service said the man, who has since recovered, called them at about 15:00 GMT and that firefighters wearing breathing apparatus had diluted the mixture.
"What we would say to people is read the labels on the tins, bottles and jars of these particular chemicals because they do give in their instructions for use a warning that they shouldn't be used with any other cleaning fluids," Mr Gough added.
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FIREFIGHTERS TACKLE CHEMICAL SPILL AT MEDWAY MARITIME HOSPITAL
Tags: United_Kingdom, public, release, injury, unknown_chemical
Firefighters tackled a chemical spill at Medway Maritime Hospital this morning.
Crews from Strood and Medway fire stations were called just after 7am to the hospital in Windmill Road, Gillingham.
An unknown quantity of a chemical was spilled and contained within one room while firefighters and specialists from the hospital carried out a risk assessment.
Fire crews went into the room in gas tight suits and breathing apparatus at 8.45am and the chemical was safely cleaned up by 9.30am.
A fire service spokesman would not say what the chemical was or how it was thought to have been spilt.
The spokesman added: "Firefighters were called as a precaution to reports of a minor chemical spill.
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POLICE: HOMEMADE CHEMICAL BOMB TOSSED INTO CONN. SCHOOL GYM, NO INJURIES OR DAMAGE REPORTED
Tags: us_CT, education, discovery, injury, bomb
CHESHIRE, Conn. =97 Police and fire officials say what appears to be a homemade bomb has exploded in the Cheshire High School gym, but there are no injuries or damage.
Police Lt. Chris Cote tells The Hartford Courant Friday night that emergency responders who went to the gym found a plastic bottle filled with chemicals. The bottle was tossed into the gym near where the girls' volleyball team was practicing just after 5:30 p.m.
Police said two coaches were taken to a hospital after complaining of skin irritation.
Cote said state police are trying to determine who made the bomb and what was used. He said he had no information about a suspect or whether a student is suspected.
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CHEMICAL SPILL SHUTS DOWN RAILWAY STATION
Tags: Australia, transportation, release, response, bleach
A chemical spill from a 25,000 litre freight train has closed down a railway station north of Sydney.
Emergency services were called to Morisset station just before 11am today, after track workers noticed chemical leaking out of a private freight train, Inspector Chris Sedgwick from Fire and Rescue NSW said.
The tanker is leaking sodium hypochlorite, a chemical normally used for cleaning, at a rate of about five litres per minute.
But Inspector Sedgwick said it was not yet known how much has spilled out so far.
The spill did not pose a risk to nearby residents as there was no vapour cloud, he said.
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14 DEAD IN CHINESE CHEMICAL PLANT EXPLOSION
Tags: China, industrial, explosion, death, unknown_chemical
Fourteen people died Saturday after a chemical plant explosion in the eastern Chinese city of Xintai, state media reported.
The state-run news Xinhua news agency reported the explosion occurred Saturday afternoon at plant that produces melamine, a chemical used in in dishware, counter tops, whiteboards and other products.
Four people died immediately, Xinhua said, citing officials in Xintai. Fifteen people were taken to the hospital, where 10 more died, the agency said.
The explosion occurred as workers were performing maintenance on a condenser, Xinhua said, citing the government statement. The exact cause of the blast is under investigation.
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EXPLOSION AT PAINT STORE IN ROANOKE COUNTY INJURES 1 MAN
Tags: us_VA, public, explosion, injury, unknown_chemical
A barrel exploded inside a north Roanoke County paint store Thursday afternoon, sending one man to the hospital, the fire department said.
The barrel blew up about 1:20 p.m. while employees at the Sherwin-Williams store in the 6700 block of Williamson Road were mixing chemicals inside of it, said Capt. Barry Hurley of the Roanoke County Fire and Rescue Department.
It wasn't immediately clear what type of chemicals were in the barrel, Hurley said.
A hazardous materials crew from Roanoke helped in the cleanup and investigation.
