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Chemical Safety Headlines From Google
Wednesday, August 20, 2014 at 7:25:58 AM
A service of the ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety
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Table of Contents (11 articles)
HAZMAT TEAM RESPONDS TO CHEMICAL SPILL
Tags: us_PA, transportation, release, response, ag_chems, pesticides
TRUCK DRIVER HOSPITALISED AFTER CHEMICAL LEAK
Tags: New_Zealand, transportation, release, injury, unknown_chemical
CHEMICAL FIRM PLEADS GUILTY TO CLEAN AIR VIOLATION
Tags: us_RI, industrial, follow-up, environmental, diethyl_ether
U.S. AGENCY: DHHR CAN?T HANDLE CHEMICAL INCIDENTS
Tags: us_WV, public, follow-up, environmental
COUNTDOWN: DEADLIEST CHEMICAL ACCIDENTS SINCE 2009
Tags: public, discovery, environmental
MEXICO SAYS MINE FIRM LIED ABOUT CHEMICAL SPILL
Tags: Mexico, public, release, environmental, acids, metals, waste
21 NEWS NOW, MORE LOCAL NEWS FOR YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO -
Tags: us_PA, industrial, explosion, response, methane, natural_gas
?EXPLOSIVE SUBSTANCE? SPARKS LOCKDOWN AT THE GAP
Tags: Australia, public, discovery, response, explosives, picric_acid
UPDATE: NO EXPLOSION IN DOWNTOWN WINSTON-SALEM
Tags: us_NC, laboratory, explosion, response, unknown_chemical
NO CRIMINAL CHARGES IN DEADLY TESORO REFINERY EXPLOSION
Tags: us_WA, industrial, follow-up, death, unknown_chemical, illegal
UNDERGROUND BLASTS FORCE EVACUATIONS IN DOWNTOWN INDIANAPOLIS
Tags: us_IN, public, explosion, response, unknown_chemical
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HAZMAT TEAM RESPONDS TO CHEMICAL SPILL
Tags: us_PA, transportation, release, response, ag_chems, pesticides
West Pikeland >> First responders and the Chester County Hazmat team responded to a chemical spill on Route 113 on Tuesday afternoon.
First responders said the spilled material was determined to be a pesticide that has nitrogen in it, and was not a fluid nitrogen as first reported when the responders were called around 2:43 p.m.
Lionville Fire Company firefighters said a farm tractor that pulled an 800-gallon tank full of pesticide turned on to its side on Route 113 near the intersection of Route 401. According to first responders, roughly 500 gallons of the pesticide spilled.
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TRUCK DRIVER HOSPITALISED AFTER CHEMICAL LEAK
Tags: New_Zealand, transportation, release, injury, unknown_chemical
A truck driver was hospitalised after chemicals leaked from his truck near Taupo overnight, the fire service says.
The chemical leak also closed a road and forced residents in the area to evacuate their homes.
The incident happened on State Highway 1 south of Taupo airport, just after midnight, northern fire communications shift manager Michael Upton said.
The driver was taken to hospital with burning to his lungs after chemicals began to leak from five litre containers.
A Hazmat unit was called in to contain the leak, he said.
The leak had been cleaned up, the road had reopened and residents were able to return their homes by this morning, Mr Upton said.
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CHEMICAL FIRM PLEADS GUILTY TO CLEAN AIR VIOLATION
Tags: us_RI, industrial, follow-up, environmental, diethyl_ether
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) ? A Massachusetts-based chemical company has pleaded guilty to violating the Clean Air Act at a facility it owned in Rhode Island.
Roberts Chemical Co., now based in Attleboro, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court in Providence as part of a plea deal with prosecutors.
The Environmental Protection Agency found in 2008 that Roberts was storing 27,467 pounds of ethyl ether at its former facility it in Pawtucket. Ethyl ether is volatile and highly flammable.
The EPA requires companies storing more than 10,000 pounds of ethyl ether to develop a risk management plan to protect workers, the community and first responders. Roberts Chemical did not do so.
The plea deal says the government and company will recommend the company be fined $200,000 and issue a public apology.
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U.S. AGENCY: DHHR CAN?T HANDLE CHEMICAL INCIDENTS
Tags: us_WV, public, follow-up, environmental
CHARLESTON, W.Va. ? The state Department of Health and Human Resources lacks a program and properly trained staff to assess community-wide chemical exposures like those that followed the Elk River chemical leak in January, federal public health officials said in a new review made public Tuesday.
U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry officials reported that the DHHR and its Bureau for Public Health do not have a program aimed at assessing patterns, causes and effects of chemical or radiological incidents, or other environmental emergencies. The ATSDR recommended that the state start such a program, hire new staff for it, and ensure those staff are properly trained.
?There is potential for many different types of disasters to occur in West Virginia, such as an infectious-disease pandemic, winter storms with widespread power outages, wind disasters such as tornadoes or derechos, flooding, wildfires and extreme heat,? the ATSDR said. ?Man-made disasters such as chemical or nuclear incidents or mass-casualty incidents like bridge collapses could occur as a result of an accident or be deliberate terrorist attacks.?
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COUNTDOWN: DEADLIEST CHEMICAL ACCIDENTS SINCE 2009
Tags: public, discovery, environmental
It's been a year since President Obama signed an executive order (#13650) directing federal agencies to modernize chemical plant safety and security policies. Since then federal agencies tasked with developing new requirements for all chemical facilities in the United States have moved painfully slow.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is the agency with the most enforceable authority to act and is one of the three agencies established by the executive order to coordinate a process and present recommendations under the executive order to the White House.
On July 31st the EPA opened a 90 day comment period asking for public input on ways to improve the EPA's Risk Management Program (RMP) that currently oversees 12,700 facilities.
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MEXICO SAYS MINE FIRM LIED ABOUT CHEMICAL SPILL
Tags: Mexico, public, release, environmental, acids, metals, waste
Mexico's top environmental official said Tuesday that a mining company lied about a spill of millions of gallons of acids and heavy metals that contaminated two rivers and a dam downstream.
Environment Secretary Juan Jose Guerra Abud said the mine falsely claimed the spill earlier this month was caused by unusually heavy rain. Officials say a construction defect at a holding pond allowed mining waste to flow out.
"At the start, they told us it was excessive rain" that caused the containment pond to overflow, Guerra Abud said. "That was totally false," he said, saying there were no rains on that scale.
"They said there would be a series of aid programs for the populations, which also did not happen when they said they would," he added at a news conference.
Guerra Abud said the Buenavista del Cobre copper mine could face fines of up to $3 million for violations of safety and environmental standards. The mine is owned by the Grupo Mexico consortium, which earlier said in a statement that "torrential and unusual rains" were to blame and that it responded immediately by trying to contain the Aug. 7 spill.
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21 NEWS NOW, MORE LOCAL NEWS FOR YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO -
Tags: us_PA, industrial, explosion, response, methane, natural_gas
MERCER, Pa. (AP) - Two storage tanks at a natural gas well site in northwestern Pennsylvania caught fire and exploded, but no injuries were reported.
More than a dozen fire departments responded to the blaze in rural Jefferson Township at about 8 p.m. Friday. That's about 60 miles north of Pittsburgh.
Hilcorp Energy Company says that the storage tanks holding oil and gas liquids caught fire at the well pad and the blaze lasted less than an hour. Hilcorp says the well wasn't involved.
Area residents say they heard explosions and that black smoke from the fire could be seen from miles away, but no homes were evacuated. The state Department of Environmental Protection closed a local road to all nonemergency vehicles.
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?EXPLOSIVE SUBSTANCE? SPARKS LOCKDOWN AT THE GAP
Tags: Australia, public, discovery, response, explosives, picric_acid
A HIGHLY volatile chemical taken to a suburban Brisbane police station could have detonated in transit, officers have warned.
Regional duty officer for the Brisbane Region Inspector Steve Flori said an elderly resident of The Gap in Brisbane?s northwest discovered the substance at a home after her ex-husband - a former chemist - was admitted to hospital.
She later handed the chemical, believed to be about 150ml and held in a small glass container, over to police at about 11am.
?We believe the material had been there for decades, potentially, and analysis of the material revealed it was a substance called picric acid,? Insp Flori said.
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UPDATE: NO EXPLOSION IN DOWNTOWN WINSTON-SALEM
Tags: us_NC, laboratory, explosion, response, unknown_chemical
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- It was a wild Sunday afternoon in downtown Winston-Salem.
HAZMAT crews responded to 200 First Street on reports of an explosion at Wake Forest One Technology Place.
Fire officials originally told us a chemical explosion occurred on the fourth floor. They also asked that everyone avoid the area.
After further inspection, it turned out the sprinkler system triggered a fire alarm. No one was injured and there was no explosion.
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NO CRIMINAL CHARGES IN DEADLY TESORO REFINERY EXPLOSION
Tags: us_WA, industrial, follow-up, death, unknown_chemical, illegal
The U.S. Department of Justice has closed its four-year criminal investigation into whether environmental and worker safety laws were broken leading up to the fatal Tesoro refinery blast.
The result: No one will face criminal charges in connection with the blast, which killed seven Tesoro workers in Anacortes, Washington, in 2010.
A Friday afternoon press release from the Justice Department said its investigation found the evidence ?does not reach the exacting bar for criminal prosecution.?
The announcement brings to a close the Obama Administration?s response to the deadliest industrial accident in Washington state in 50 years.
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UNDERGROUND BLASTS FORCE EVACUATIONS IN DOWNTOWN INDIANAPOLIS
Tags: us_IN, public, explosion, response, unknown_chemical
A series of small underground transformer explosions rocked downtown Indianapolis on Aug. 13, sending brownish-gray smoke billowing into the streets and forcing evacuations from nearby buildings.
The explosions about 1:30 p.m. outside the Circle Centre shopping and entertainment mall rattled windows and sent police officers rushing into the area to evacuate workers and other onlookers to a safe distance away, Indianapolis Fire Department Capt. Rita Reith said.
No one was injured.
?It was just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, and then they cleared the entire block,? Mark Neyland, an operations manager for the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority, told The Indianapolis Star. The agency has its offices near the site of the explosions.
Bruce Plott, a construction worker who was nearby, said he heard what sounded like someone banging on aluminum garbage cans as he walked down some stairs around the corner from where the explosions occurred.
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