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Table of Contents (7 articles)
OIL, FRACKING CHEMICAL LEAKS WORSEN COLORADO FLOOD DISASTER
Tags: us_CO, industrial, release, environmental, petroleum
CHEMICAL SPILL AT RECYCLING FACILITY SICKENS NEARLY 20
Tags: us_AZ, industrial, release, injury, unknown_chemical, waste
U OF W HAZMAT INCIDENT INVESTIGATED BY MINISTRY
Tags: Canada, laboratory, discovery, response, illegal, liquid_nitrogen
OFFICIALS EVACUATING AREA, STREETS SHUT DOWN NEAR CHEMICAL RELEASE IN NE CANTON
Tags: us_OH, industrial, fire, response, sulfur_dioxide
BUS DRIVER ACCUSED OF SPILLING HAZARDOUS WASTE DOWN OAKHURST STORM DRAIN
Tags: us_CA, transportation, release, response, illegal, waste
FIREFIGHTERS RESPOND TO GLENDALE ADVENTIST MEDICAL CENTER HAZMAT SPRILL
Tags: us_CA, laboratory, release, injury, acetic_acid
SIX INJURED IN ACCIDENT AT LONE STAR HIGH SCHOOL FIELD HOUSE
Tags: us_TX, education, explosion, injury, oxygen
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OIL, FRACKING CHEMICAL LEAKS WORSEN COLORADO FLOOD DISASTER
http://peoplesworld.org/oil-fracking-chemical-leaks-worsen-colorado-flood-disaster/
Tags: us_CO, industrial, release, environmental, petroleum
There are at least eight confirmed dead from the disastrous flooding that began in Colorado on September 9, with hundreds still missing. Now, pollutants from damaged fracking and oil infrastructure are getting into the floodwaters, exacerbating the already dire situation.
Spread across 17 counties and leaving 15,000 decimated homes in its wake, the flooding is the result of heavy rain that occurred when a slow-moving cold front clashed with hot air from the south over the state. The flooding hit areas ranging from Colorado Springs to Fort Collins and caused the evacuation of 11,750 people. Some of those evacuees are reportedly returning home now, only to find their houses destroyed, and in some instances, likely discovering foul polluted water.
Mike Turner, a resident of the town of Greeley, ignored evacuation orders and remained on his property with his family, watching as the waters engulfed and damaged an oil tank and well on his property. As a result, "there is some crude in the water," he said. "Not a huge amount." But just northeast of the area, oil drums and crude were spotted in the water, their origins not yet known.
And Roy Rudisill, director of Weld County Office of Emergency Management, said there was at least one oil pipeline that burst under pressure from the flooding, though he did not clarify which, or how much oil was leaking from it.
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CHEMICAL SPILL AT RECYCLING FACILITY SICKENS NEARLY 20
http://www.azfamily.com/news/Chemical-leak-at-recycling-facility-sickens-nearly-20-224082761.html
Tags: us_AZ, industrial, release, injury, unknown_chemical, waste
PHOENIX ? Emergency crews have evacuated a Phoenix recycling facility after nearly 20 people got sick there Tuesday morning.
Emergency responders set up a triage area in the parking lot of the Phoenix North Transfer Station and Materials Recovery Facility near Dixileta Drive and 27th Avenue, just east of Interstate 17. More than 20 emergency units were called to the scene.
According to Larry Nu–ez of the Phoenix Fire Department, there was an unknown chemical spill. Hazardous-materials crews ware on the scene and are trying to determine exactly what is leaking.
Nu–ez told 3TV that they were dealing with an airborne hazard.
Capt. Troy Caskey of the Phoenix Fire Department said 19 people were treated on the scene. Their symptoms include scratchy throats, burning noses and vomiting.
"It came in to us as an 'unknown odor,'" Caskey told 3TV's Ryan O'Donnell. "We're not sure exactly what it was or if it's even related to what's been going on with these people ...."
Workers were evacuated after a reported chemical spill and then allowed back inside after the facility was deemed safe. After four workers became ill, employees were evacuated a second time.
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U OF W HAZMAT INCIDENT INVESTIGATED BY MINISTRY
http://www.windsorstar.com/hazmat+incident+investigated+ministry/8925950/story.html
Tags: Canada, laboratory, discovery, response, illegal, liquid_nitrogen
The Ministry of Labour and University of Windsor are both investigating after a 200-litre cauldron of liquid nitrogen - a hazardous material - was transported along Wyandotte Street West by three students.
Candy Donaldson, the university's hazardous materials technician, and a member of CUPE Local 1393 which is currently on strike, received a call from pickets outside the Centre for Engineering Innovation in the early afternoon Friday.
"They knew something was wrong," said Donaldson, who was told that three engineering students had emerged from the building with a hazardous materials tank on wheels and were wheeling it down the street, overseen by engineering department head Andrzej Sobiesiak.
"You didn't have to be a scientist to know something was weird."
Donaldson rushed to the scene in time to see the tank being wheeled along Wyandotte to the university's main liquid nitrogen filling tank at Essex Hall.
WIN00768540_1_1She watched as they filled up the tank, and then turned around and headed back to the CEI, about two blocks and two intersections to the east. They also crossed against a red light, Donaldson said.
"I approached the department head and said 'Do you realize what you're doing is illegal?,'" said Donaldson, who called and notified the ministries of labour, environment and transportation.
"And he said (head of health and safety) Leigh Harold said it was OK, and we said OK, and they continued to drag it down Wyandotte."
The transportation of liquid nitrogen is regulated under many federal and provincial acts, and requires that it be moved in large quantities by a vehicle with hazardous goods markings, or "placarding."
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OFFICIALS EVACUATING AREA, STREETS SHUT DOWN NEAR CHEMICAL RELEASE IN NE CANTON
http://www.cantonrep.com/topstories/x1803292515/Fire-crews-HAZMAT-monitoring-chemical-reaction-in-Canton
Tags: us_OH, industrial, fire, response, sulfur_dioxide
CANTON ?
A chemical reaction involving sulfur dioxide and a subsequent fire at a shuttered industrial building forced hundreds of city residents from their northeast-side homes Monday evening.
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Firefighters evacuated residents living between 22nd Street NE and Fourth Street NE and between Grace and Rowland avenues Monday evening after responding to the former Convoy Containers plant at 1811 20th St. NE for complaints of a foul odor.
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CHEMICAL REACTION
Firefighters were called the former cardboard- and plastic-container manufacturer shortly after 2 p.m. Monday. When they entered the building, they discovered a chemical reaction that produced intense, white smoke inside a large vat, said Canton Battalion Chief Thomas Garra, who also serves as the Stark County HAZMAT team leader.
The HAZMAT team found conditions created by the single-story factory unsafe for neighbors. As winds carried the stench of sulfur, emergency officials widened the evacuation area to the southern city limits. Decontamination stations were setup for firefighters outside of the old factory and a command station was established at the Stark County Sheriff?s Office to coordinate emergency response efforts.
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BUS DRIVER ACCUSED OF SPILLING HAZARDOUS WASTE DOWN OAKHURST STORM DRAIN
http://www.sierrastar.com/2013/09/16/64534/bus-driver-accused-of-spilling.html
Tags: us_CA, transportation, release, response, illegal, waste
A tour bus driver is facing felony charges for releasing raw sewage from his charter bus in the Von?s shopping center Monday morning.
The bus is registered to Screamline Investment Corporation, based in Commerce, Calif.
According to statements, the driver of the charter bus, disembarked his 22 passengers, in the Raley?s shopping center, before driving across the street, parking near the entrance of the U.S Post Office, where he reportedly emptied his vehicle?s waste tank into a storm drain the feeds into the Fresno River.
Information about the unleashing of sewage was phoned into the Madera County Sheriff?s Office shortly after 9 a.m., after the bus had left the parking lot.
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FIREFIGHTERS RESPOND TO GLENDALE ADVENTIST MEDICAL CENTER HAZMAT SPRILL
http://www.firehouse.com/news/11151790/firefighters-respond-to-glendale-adventist-medical-center-hazmat-sprill
Tags: us_CA, laboratory, release, injury, acetic_acid
Sept. 16--Six people suffered minor injuries Monday when an acid spilled inside a lab at a medical office building on the Glendale Adventist Medical Center campus, officials said.
One of the six people, who suffered from nausea, eye irritation and headaches, requested to be transported to the nearby hospital for further medical evaluation, according to Brandy Villanueva, a Glendale Fire Department spokeswoman.
The victims were not Glendale Adventist patients and employees, hospital spokeswoman Alicia Gonzalez said.
The lab is run by Parexel, a private clinical trial research agency, on the third-floor wing of the medical office building, which is in the 1500 block of East Chevy Chase Drive on the hospital's campus, she added.
The wing was evacuated after glacial acetic acid spilled inside the lab, Villanueva said. The colorless acid is used in pharmaceutical studies and bio-engineering, she added.
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SIX INJURED IN ACCIDENT AT LONE STAR HIGH SCHOOL FIELD HOUSE
http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/health/Six-Injured-in-Accident-at-Lone-Star-High-School-Fieldhouse-224007901.html
Tags: us_TX, education, explosion, injury, oxygen
Six people went to the hospital today after being sprayed by chemicals from a portable oxygen device at Lone Star High School in Frisco Monday.
The City of Frisco says firefighters were called to a medical emergency at the school's field house in the 2600 block of Panther Creek Parkway just after 10 a.m.
When firefighters arrived a nurse was treating a student with an emergency oxygen pack, when the nurse attempted to change canisters, the City of Frisco says the device exploded, spraying several people with chemicals.
"It got on their clothes, got on their skin, some minor, minor burning," said Battalion Chief Shawn Eft.
Three firefighters, the school nurse, an assistant principal and the student's sibling were treated for exposure to the chemical and/or minor burns. They were all taken to Centennial Hospital where they were treated and released.
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