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Wednesday, November 19, 2014 at 7:07:02 AM
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Table of Contents (9 articles)
MORE DISCUSSION ON THE U MINNESOTA AZIDE EXPLOSION
Tags: us_IL, laboratory, follow-up, injury, other_chemical
SMALL FIRE SPARKS AT GASTONIA MANUFACTURING COMPANY
Tags: us_NC, industrial, fire, response, fire_extinguisher
5 SENT TO HOSPITAL AFTER CHEMICAL SPILL AT UEI COLLEGE IN ANAHEIM
Tags: us_CA, education, release, injury, cleaners
HAZMAT CALLED OUT TO OVERTURNED TRACTOR TRAILER
Tags: us_FL, transportation, release, response, pesticides
2 DOZEN TREATED AFTER TRUCK EXPLODES; CHEMICAL HITS AIR, IGNITES
Tags: us_CA, industrial, explosion, injury, peroxide, waste
DRUG LAB BIN BLAST LIKE BOMB
Tags: Australia, public, explosion, response, illegal, waste
CHEMICAL PLANT HAD SOME ENVIRONMENTAL VIOLATIONS
Tags: us_TX, industrial, follow-up, death, thiols
THE FIRE THAT CHANGED HOW DAYTON SEES WATER
Tags: us_OH, industrial, follow-up, response, unknown_chemical, other_chemical
FOUR WORKERS KILLED AT DUPONT CHEMICAL PLANT IN TEXAS
Tags: us_TX, industrial, release, death, thiols
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MORE DISCUSSION ON THE U MINNESOTA AZIDE EXPLOSION
Tags: us_IL, laboratory, follow-up, injury, other_chemical
We‰??ve had blog post the first (‰??Explosion injures‰?|‰??) and blog post the second (‰??More details‰?|‰??), plus a C&EN safety letter and ‰??C&EN Talks Safety with William B. Tolman.‰?? A reader responds in this week‰??s issue:
I was disappointed by the lengthy chemical safety letter from T. Andrew Taton and Walter E. Partlo on the azidotrimethylsilane explosion in Taton‰??s lab (C&EN, Oct. 27, page 2).
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While Flynn has a point about the fact that basic personal protective equipment should be standard, it‰??s worth remembering that PPE comes last on the hierarchy of controls, after elimination, substitution, engineering, and administrative. Both the safety letter and my discussion with Tolman were focused more on those higher-level controls.
Also, over at Chemjobber is some more information about the department‰??s 5 g limit for reactions involving azide.
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SMALL FIRE SPARKS AT GASTONIA MANUFACTURING COMPANY
Tags: us_NC, industrial, fire, response, fire_extinguisher
A Gastonia manufacturing company had to be evacuated after a small chemical fire Monday afternoon.
Firefighters responded to a call for a hazardous materials incident at Stabilus on Tulip Drive.
According to fire officials, a small chemical fire had sparked, but was contained inside a vat. Firefighters located the vat and extinguished the fire using a dry chemical fire extinguisher.
The building was completely ventilated of all vapors and the air inside was tested before employees returned to work safely.
No one was injured.
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5 SENT TO HOSPITAL AFTER CHEMICAL SPILL AT UEI COLLEGE IN ANAHEIM
Tags: us_CA, education, release, injury, cleaners
ANAHEIM, Calif. (KABC) -- Five people were transported to the hospital following a chemical spill at the UEI College campus in Anaheim.
Anaheim Fire Department authorities said a UEI College worker spilled a cleaning agent on Monday. Officials said the worker cleaned up the mess before people arrived on campus, but many people still complained of a chemical smell.
A box of rags used to clean up the spill was removed.
Those who were transported to the hospital complained of watery eyes and nausea. Their injuries were not considered life-threatening.
About 100 students were evacuated. Classes were canceled Tuesday due to the incident.
A hazmat team and fire department officials declared the scene cleared the scene shortly after noon on Tuesday.
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HAZMAT CALLED OUT TO OVERTURNED TRACTOR TRAILER
Tags: us_FL, transportation, release, response, pesticides
Manatee County, Florida -- All lanes on State Road 62, east of Duette Road, reopened Tuesday night after being closed for nearly six hours due to an overturned tractor trailer.
Hardee County Emergency Management tells 10 News the truck was carrying chlorpyrifos -- an agricultural insecticide -- which leaked from the vehicle onto the roadway.
Manatee County Fire Rescue hazmat members worked to clean up the insecticide while crews removed the tractor trailer.
The driver of the truck was treated at the scene.
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2 DOZEN TREATED AFTER TRUCK EXPLODES; CHEMICAL HITS AIR, IGNITES
Tags: us_CA, industrial, explosion, injury, peroxide, waste
More than two dozen people have gone to local hospitals after they were exposed to chemical fumes from an explosion at a water waste company in Santa Paula.
At about 3:45 a.m., two workers were removing 1,200 gallons of a chemical, possibly an organic peroxide, with a vacuum truck at Santa Clara Waste Water Co. in the 800 block of Mission Rock Road when it suddenly exploded, fire officials said.
The chemical, when it hit the air, crystallized and became combustible, fire spokeswoman Lori Ross said.
‰??It can spontaneously ignite, and that‰??s what it did,‰?? she said.
The explosion caused the chemical to shoot out at least 300 feet, creating smaller flare-ups, said Capt. Mike Lindbery of the Ventura County Fire Department.
Authorities ordered all businesses and agricultural ranches within a mile of the spill to evacuate because the risk of more explosions was high, fire officials said. A school also was closed.
Firefighters pulled back because their shoes were sparking explosions as they walked on the dry chemical, Lindbery said.
Because firefighters were not sure what type of chemical was spilled, they were allowing the fiery explosion to burn out without water. Meanwhile, they're keeping their distance.
The truck's occupant was taken to an hospital, as were three firefighters who experienced problems after exposure to the chemical, fire officials said. A fifth person drove himself to the hospital.
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DRUG LAB BIN BLAST LIKE BOMB
Tags: Australia, public, explosion, response, illegal, waste
Residents on a Westminster street say they thought their homes were under attack yesterday when equipment and chemicals used to make illicit drugs were dumped and exploded in a skip bin.
Flames up to 3m high erupted from the skip bin located outside a building site on Rotherfield Road about 4am today.
Steve Pitsakis said he thought a bomb had gone off, as his nearby unit shook from the fire.
‰??I jumped off the bed and I looked and I thought (a car) went into a house,‰?? he said.
Mr Pitsakis immediately thought a tradesman might have left a flammable liquid in the bin and was shocked to discover the sinister reason behind the fire.
He was quick to call firefighters who, along with police officers found suspicious items in the bin.
Odile Bijoux said she too was woken by the very loud noise of the explosion.
‰??I thought something had exploded in my lounge‰?|I couldn‰??t imagine what caused it,‰?? she said.
Organised crime squad investigators called to the scene confirmed the items belonged to a clandestine drug laboratory.
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CHEMICAL PLANT HAD SOME ENVIRONMENTAL VIOLATIONS
Tags: us_TX, industrial, follow-up, death, thiols
State records show dozens of minor or moderate state environmental violations since 2009 at a Houston-area DuPont chemical plant where four people died from toxic fumes over the weekend.
The plant, however, which covers 600 acres along the Houston Ship Channel in LaPorte and has operated since 1956, has received a satisfactory rating from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, according to the agency's records. The plant holds more than 150 environmental permits covering air, water and handling of hazardous material.
A team of investigators from the U.S. Chemical Safety Board began work at the plant Monday, two days after the four employees died in the release of methyl mercaptan ‰?? a chemical used in the manufacture of insecticide and fungicide and also used to provide odor to natural gas.
The toxic chemical, which is described as smelling like rotten eggs or rotten cabbage, causes eye and skin irritation and rapidly affects the respiratory system.
It was not immediately clear what caused Saturday's chemical release.
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THE FIRE THAT CHANGED HOW DAYTON SEES WATER
Tags: us_OH, industrial, follow-up, response, unknown_chemical, other_chemical
In May of 1987, a spill at the paint warehouse across the river caused a small fire that quickly spread.
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FOUR WORKERS KILLED AT DUPONT CHEMICAL PLANT IN TEXAS
Tags: us_TX, industrial, release, death, thiols
Investigators from the Chemical Safety & Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) are in Texas probing an apparent chemical leak that killed four workers and injured a fifth at a DuPont plant in La Porte, Texas.
The workers probably died from exposure to methyl mercaptan while responding to a valve leak around 4 AM on Nov. 15, DuPont said in a statement. The community around the plant was not at risk, the company adds.
‰??Our goal in investigating this accident is to determine the root cause and make recommendations to prevent any similar accidents throughout the industry,‰?? CSB Chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso says.
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