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Table of Contents (8 articles)
TENN. FIREFIGHTER HURT IN METH LAB EXPLOSION IN HAMBLEN COUNTY
Tags: us_TN, public, explosion, injury, meth_lab
CARGO SHIP COLLIDES WITH CHEMICAL TANKER, 91 RESCUED
Tags: Republic_of_Korea, transportation, fire, response, flammables
CHEMICAL PLANT EMPLOYEE SHOOTS BOSS, KILLS SELF
Tags: us_IL, industrial, release, injury, unknown_chemical
HAZMAT: NO PUBLIC HEALTH THREAT AT PEST CONTROL COMPANY
Tags: us_AZ, industrial, release, response, pesticides
DPS: CHEMICAL IN TUMACACORI HAZMAT INCIDENT WAS PESTICIDE INGREDIENT
Tags: us_AZ, transportation, release, response, ag_chems, pesticides
ATTORNEY GENERAL MADIGAN SUES ALSIP CHEMICAL PLANT OVER EXPLOSION
Tags: us_IL, industrial, explosion, injury, acetone, phenol
DERMAL UPTAKE OF ORGANIC VAPORS COMMONLY FOUND IN INDOOR AIR
Tags: public, discovery, environmental, solvent
GAS EXPLOSION AT SHOPPING MALL IN SOUTHWEST CHINA KILLS 4 PEOPLE, INJURES 35
Tags: China, public, explosion, death, natural_gas
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TENN. FIREFIGHTER HURT IN METH LAB EXPLOSION IN HAMBLEN COUNTY
http://www.firehouse.com/news/11286991/tenn-firefighter-hurt-in-meth-lab-explosion-in-hamblen-county
Tags: us_TN, public, explosion, injury, meth_lab
Dec. 28--One firefighter suffered minor injuries Friday morning when a methamphetamine lab exploded in an abandoned house in Hamblen County, officials said.
Hamblen County Chief Deputy Wayne Mize said the firefighter, whose name was not released, was treated at the scene.
Neighbors on St. Paul Road called Hamblen County E-911 dispatchers at about 6:30 a.m., saying they heard an explosion, Mize said.
The chief said fire was discovered in the basement at the back of the empty house.
"The South Hamblen County Volunteer Fire Department determined it was a meth lab in progress," Mize said. "One of the firemen, he got a whiff of it, and EMS checked him out and he didn't have to go to the hospital."
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CARGO SHIP COLLIDES WITH CHEMICAL TANKER, 91 RESCUED
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2013/12/116_148791.html
Tags: Republic_of_Korea, transportation, fire, response, flammables
A cargo ship collided with a chemical-laden tanker off South Korea's southeast coast early Sunday, causing the tanker to catch fire, but all 91 crew members on the two vessels were rescued safely, coast guard officials said.
The 55,000-ton freighter Gravity Highway was on a test-run when it collided with Maritime Maisie, a tanker carrying 29,337 tons of inflammable chemicals, in waters about 9.2 nautical miles off the southeastern port city of Busan around 2:15 a.m., officials said.
The impact caused a fire on the tanker, which was carrying 27 crew members.
Sixteen coast guard boats, some Navy vessels and helicopters were sent to the scene, and rescued all crew members aboard the tanker, officials said. Firefighters brought the blaze under control around 10 a.m. and were trying to put it out completely, they added.
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CHEMICAL PLANT EMPLOYEE SHOOTS BOSS, KILLS SELF
http://www.nwherald.com/2013/12/28/chemical-plant-employee-shoots-boss-kills-self/ak7wxww/
Tags: us_IL, industrial, release, injury, unknown_chemical
WESTVILLE ‰?? Authorities are trying to piece together what prompted a longtime eastern Illinois chemical plant employee to shoot his company‰??s CEO during a job review before turning the gun on himself.
‰??All we know is something went wrong in the performance evaluation,‰?? said Vermilion County Sheriff Pat Hartshorn.
Thursday afternoon‰??s shooting took place at DynaChem, a small, privately held industrial chemical maker about 30 miles from Champaign.
Hartshorn said DynaChem president and CEO Keith Rife was hospitalized in Urbana with gunshot wounds to his head and hip. His injuries aren‰??t considered life-threatening.
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HAZMAT: NO PUBLIC HEALTH THREAT AT PEST CONTROL COMPANY
http://www.kpho.com/story/24312693/hazmat-unit-finds-no-health-threat-at-pest-control-company
Tags: us_AZ, industrial, release, response, pesticides
PHOENIX (CBS5) -
A Phoenix Fire Department hazmat unit determined a unidentified light haze inside a pest control technology company posed no threat to the public.
The call came just before 5:30 a.m. Friday at Troy Corp. / Troy Biosciences, Inc., near Van Buren Street and 43rd Avenue involving an unidentified chemical, according to a Phoenix firefighter.
Fire spokesman Tony Mure said crews were called by employees arriving for work who reported the haze that appeared to include a powdery substance in one section of the building.
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DPS: CHEMICAL IN TUMACACORI HAZMAT INCIDENT WAS PESTICIDE INGREDIENT
http://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/dps-chemical-in-tumacacori-hazmat-incident-was-pesitcide-ingredient/article_05dca964-6f11-11e3-a437-001a4bcf887a.html
Tags: us_AZ, transportation, release, response, ag_chems, pesticides
A tractor-trailer whose leaky load caused a brief shutdown of Interstate 19 and an all-day emergency response and cleanup near Tumacacori on Christmas Eve was carrying hydrogen cyanamide, an ingredient used in pesticides, authorities said.
Approximately a half-gallon of the corrosive chemical leaked onto the deck of the truck‰??s shipping container and crystallized, said Officer Raul Garcia, spokesman for the Arizona Department of Public Safety.
‰??It all leaked within the shipping container and partially outside of the shipping container, but not actually onto the roadway or to the ground,‰?? he said.
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ATTORNEY GENERAL MADIGAN SUES ALSIP CHEMICAL PLANT OVER EXPLOSION
http://southtownstar.suntimes.com/news/24624239-418/attorney-general-madigan-suesalsip-chemical-plant-over-explosion.html
Tags: us_IL, industrial, explosion, injury, acetone, phenol
Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed a lawsuit Friday asking a judge to order a review of what caused an explosion earlier this month at a chemical factory that left two workers hurt.
Madigan filed the lawsuit Friday at the request of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, seeking an injunction that would order Blue Island Phenol of Alsip to conduct an analysis of the blast and its environmental impact.
The lawsuit also accuses the plant of multiple violations of the Illinois Environmental Protection Act.
The explosion at 11:30 a.m. Dec. 13 rocked the plant at 131st Street and South Homan Avenue, triggering a major emergency response from 40 area fire departments.
Two employees were burned in the explosion and fire, which destroyed a storage facility and damaged other buildings at the plant.
The explosion and fire followed a chemical release in the factory‰??s cumene unit, which manufactures phenol and acetone. The process to produce the chemicals runs continuously, and the two reactors used to store the chemicals were not damaged, plant manager Bill Moffatt said after the explosion.
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DERMAL UPTAKE OF ORGANIC VAPORS COMMONLY FOUND IN INDOOR AIR
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es405490a
Tags: public, discovery, environmental, solvent
Transdermal uptake directly from air is a potentially important yet largely overlooked pathway for human exposure to organic vapors indoors. We recently reported (Indoor Air 2012, 22, 356) that transdermal uptake directly from air could be comparable to or larger than intake via inhalation for many semivolatile organic compounds (SVOCs). Here, we extend that analysis to approximately eighty organic compounds that (a) occur commonly indoors and (b) are primarily in the gas-phase rather than being associated with particles. For some compounds, the modeled ratio of dermal-to-inhalation uptake is large. In this group are common parabens, lower molecular weight phthalates, o-phenylphenol, Texanol, ethylene glycol, and ë±-terpineol. For other compounds, estimated dermal uptakes are small compared to inhalation. Examples include aliphatic hydrocarbons, single ring aromatics, terpenes, chlorinated solvents, formaldehyde, and acrolein. Analysis of published experimental data for huma!
n subjects for twenty different organic compounds substantiates these model predictions. However, transdermal uptake rates from air have not been measured for the indoor organics that have the largest modeled ratios of dermal-to-inhalation uptake; for such compounds, the estimates reported here require experimental verification. In accounting for total exposure to indoor organic pollutants and in assessing potential health consequences of such exposures, it is important to consider direct transdermal absorption from air.
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GAS EXPLOSION AT SHOPPING MALL IN SOUTHWEST CHINA KILLS 4 PEOPLE, INJURES 35
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/12/27/gas-explosion-at-shopping-mall-in-southwest-china-kills-4-people-injures-35/
Tags: China, public, explosion, death, natural_gas
BEIJING ‰?? A natural gas explosion at a shopping mall in southwestern China has killed four people and injured 35 others.
The Luzhou municipal government in Sichuan province says three floors of the Moerma shopping center caught fire after the explosion late Thursday. Its online statement says there were four deaths and 35 people injured as of Friday morning.
Local authorities cordoned off the area and urged residents not to gather to look at the scorched structure. News photos show shattered glasses and blackened wall panels.
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