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Chemical Safety Headlines From Google
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 7:49:07 AM
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Table of Contents (8 articles)
KIDS' CHEMICAL INJURIES DOWN, BUT MAY RISE IN SUMMER
Tags: public, follow-up, environmental
FIRE DAMAGES BERKEN ENERGY IN FORT COLLINS; HAZMAT TEAM CALLED TO SITE
Tags: us_CO, laboratory, fire, response, unknown_chemical
HAZMAT CREWS RESPOND TO CHEMICAL INCIDENT AT <ST1:STOCKTICKER>RPI</ST1:STOCKTICKER>
Tags: us_NY, education, explosion, injury, bomb
TRAIN, TANKER COLLISION CLOSES SWIFT COUNTY HIGHWAY, SCHOOL
Tags: us_MN, transportation, release, injury, petroleum
ONE HURT IN CHEMICAL FIRE
Tags: us_MI, industrial, fire, injury, tetrahydrofuran
NO ONE HURT IN IN BRECKENRIDGE CHEMICAL FIRE
Tags: us_TX, industrial, fire, response, unknown_chemical
FIRE IN CHEMICAL FACTORY
Tags: India, industrial, explosion, injury, unknown_chemical
CHEMICAL CHEF CAUSES TREASURE ISLAND BLAZE
Tags: us_CA, public, fire, response, bleach, cleaners
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KIDS' CHEMICAL INJURIES DOWN, BUT MAY RISE IN SUMMER
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/07/us-kid-chemical-injury-idUSBRE9460OO20130507
Tags: public, follow-up, environmental
(Reuters Health) - Injuries from gasoline, lamp oil and similar chemicals have dropped considerably among small children in the last decade, according to a new study.
"It seems to decline right around 2000, 2001. That's when the Consumer Products Safety Commission mandated products be placed in child-resistant packaging," said Dr. Heath Jolliff, the study's lead author and associate medical director of the Central Ohio Poison Center at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus.
Summertime, however, brings extra risk for exposure to these types of poisonings, especially among toddlers.
"The kind of gasoline (used) with the lawnmowers, (fuel for) tiki torches and that sort of thing - because of the access, (children) get the exposure," said Dr. Jennifer Lowry, chief of Clinical Toxicology at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri.
Fuels such as lamp oil for tiki torches, kerosene for camping stoves and gasoline, as well as turpentine and some lubricants are all hydrocarbons - a category of dangerous liquids that is the third leading cause of children's poisoning deaths, Jolliff and his colleagues write in the journal Pediatrics.
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FIRE DAMAGES BERKEN ENERGY IN FORT COLLINS; HAZMAT TEAM CALLED TO SITE
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/fire-damages-advanced-energy-in-fort-collins
Tags: us_CO, laboratory, fire, response, unknown_chemical
FORT COLLINS, Colo. - Hazardous materials experts have been called to an energy company that was the scene of a 2-alarm fire on Monday morning.
The fire burned in an exhaust hood in one room at Berken Energy in Fort Collins, according to Patrick Love with the Poudre Fire Authority.
Berken Energy works on research and development of technologies relating to heat energy transfer.
Love said the fire was quickly contained and extinguished. However, Love said there are hazardous materials in the room where the fire burned, so a Hazmat team has been called out.
Investigators are still trying to determine how the early morning fire started.
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HAZMAT CREWS RESPOND TO CHEMICAL INCIDENT AT <ST1:STOCKTICKER>RPI</ST1:STOCKTICKER>
http://wnyt.com/article/stories/S3024948.shtml?cat=300
Tags: us_NY, education, explosion, injury, bomb
TROY - An RPI maintenance worker was treated for "slight" injuries at Samaritan Hospital Monday afternoon after mystery chemicals from a two-liter soda bottle exploded in his face.
Troy Police say the worker was cleaning up near Rousseau Hall around 1:35 when he found the found on the lawn, picked it up, and tossed it into a nearby dumpster.
A police HAZMAT team removed remnants of the bottle late Monday afternoon and sent it to a lab to be analyzed.
Most of the afternoon, the 45 students who live in Rousseau Hall remained under a mandatory evacuation order, waiting outside in the warm sun. Many were anxious to begin studying for final exams which begin next week.
Troy Police Captain John Cooney says it was "an exothermic reaction basically meaning that chemicals were placed in the bottle causing it to burst upon being handled."
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TRAIN, TANKER COLLISION CLOSES SWIFT COUNTY HIGHWAY, SCHOOL
http://www.startribune.com/local/206431421.html?refer=y
Tags: us_MN, transportation, release, injury, petroleum
A freight train hauling North Dakota crude oil and a tanker truck carrying hazardous material collided Tuesday morning in west-central Minnesota, causing the tanker to leak, forcing a nearby school to evacuate, closing a major highway and leaving five people in need of medical attention, authorities said.
The collision involving a 102-car BNSF train and a truck hauling anhydrous ammonia from a Koch Nitrogen Co. fertilizer terminal occurred about 8:30 a.m. just northwest of Murdock, according to the Swift County Sheriff's Office. Hwy. 12 remained closed while hazmat teams assessed the cleanup and removal of the truck and trailer.
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ONE HURT IN CHEMICAL FIRE
http://www.lenconnect.com/article/20130506/NEWS/130509678
Tags: us_MI, industrial, fire, injury, tetrahydrofuran
ADRIAN -- A worker was injured Sunday night when a chemical container at Anderson Development Co. caught fire.
The fire at the chemical company at 1415 Michigan St. was reported at 9:02 p.m. Sunday. When firefighters arrived, a 55-gallon container of a solid product made up of sodium borofluoride, tetrahydrofuran and sodium borohydride was on fire, according to a news release from the Adrian Fire Department. Firefighters and Anderson employees placed a metal cover on the container to extinguish the fire.
One Anderson employee suffered a burn on an arm. He was treated by Lenawee Community Ambulance personnel and taken to ProMedica Bixby Hospital.
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NO ONE HURT IN IN BRECKENRIDGE CHEMICAL FIRE
http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/Chemical-fire-darkens-skies-over-Breckenridge-TX-206321461.html
Tags: us_TX, industrial, fire, response, unknown_chemical
BRECKENRIDGE, Texas -- A fire at a chemical plant in Breckenridge forced the evacuation of the plant and the surrounding areas Monday.
The blaze at the Chemplex plant, south of Breckenridge, started around noon. Thick, black smoke filled the skies as flames shot high into the air.
The fire was extinguished by firefighters about two hours later. It was contained to a series of storage containers outside of the main plant.
No one was injured.
Chemplex Advanced Materials makes fracking chemicals, among other things.
The cause of the fire has not been determined. Officials with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality responded to the scene to help with the investigation.
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FIRE IN CHEMICAL FACTORY
http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/fire-in-chemical-factory-113050700008_1.html
Tags: India, industrial, explosion, injury, unknown_chemical
A major fire broke out in a chemical factory at village Mandour close to Ambala City late tonight, leaving a fire-fighter injured.
No causalty was reported but one firefighter was injured in the fire.
Around two dozen fire tenders from Ambala Cantonment, Air Force, Army, Yamunanagar, Chandigarh and Panchkula controlled the flames after a three-hour struggle.
The houses adjacent to the factory were directed to vacate as a precautionary measure as several drums of chemicals exploded in the factory, which created panic among the villagers.
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CHEMICAL CHEF CAUSES TREASURE ISLAND BLAZE
http://www.sfexaminer.com/blogs/law-and-disorder/2013/05/chemical-chef-causes-treasure-island-blaze
Tags: us_CA, public, fire, response, bleach, cleaners
A two-alarm fire on Treasure Island on Sunday started when a 29-year-old man reportedly "gathered a bunch of cleaning chemicals such as Clorox and began cooking them to see what would happen," police said Monday.
Chad Ingram, 29, of San Francisco, was booked into jail on a charge of unlawfully causing a fire in connection with the 4 a.m. blaze on Sturgeon Street near Avenue B, Officer Gordon Shyy said Monday.
Ingram reportedly told police officers who had responded to the scene how the blaze occurred.
"He was mixing chemicals to see if it burned and obviously they did," Shyy said.
Drug production was not suspected, according to the police spokesman, who added that any evidence of that sort of thing would probably have been destroyed in the fire.
No one was injured in the blaze, which was reportedly contained to Ingram's home and put out by firefighters in 20 minutes.
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Ralph Stuart
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Secretary
Division of Chemical Health and Safety
American Chemical Society
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