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Chemical Safety Headlines From Google
Wednesday, December 31, 2014 at 10:34:37 AM
A service of the ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety
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Table of Contents (8 articles)
SAFE-CRACKING ADVENTURE BRINGS OUT ROCHESTER FIRE DEPARTMENT
Tags: us_MN, public, release, injury, tear_gas
ITHACA FIRE DEPT. CONTAINED SO2 SPILL
Tags: us_NY, industrial, release, response, gas_cylinders, sulfur_dioxide
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS TEAM CONTAINS CHEMICAL SPILL AT CON-WAY INC. IN SAGINAW
Tags: us_MI, transportation, release, injury, corrosives, flammables
ANOTHER BIOSAFETY LAPSE AT CDC
Tags: laboratory, discovery, environmental, other_chemical
MASHPEE MAN TAKEN TO HOSPITAL AFTER HAZMAT SITUATION
Tags: us_MA, public, release, injury, unknown_chemical
FIREFIGHTERS SHUT DOWN NELSON AMMONIA LEAK
Tags: New_Zealand, industrial, release, response, ammonia
THREE WORKERS HOSPITALIZED AFTER CHLORINE RELEASE CHEMICAL PLANT
Tags: us_LA, industrial, release, injury, chlorine
4 PEOPLE HOSPITALIZED AFTER CHEMICAL EXPOSURE IN BREVARD COUNTY
Tags: us_FL, public, release, injury, unknown_chemical
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SAFE-CRACKING ADVENTURE BRINGS OUT ROCHESTER FIRE DEPARTMENT
Tags: us_MN, public, release, injury, tear_gas
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) ‰?? Curiosity may have killed the cat, but what did it do to the goose? The Rochester Fire Department's chemical assistance team rushed to a prominent local restaurant Friday afternoon after an attempt to crack open an old safe took a turn to the unexpected.
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"It just always bothered me, I always tried kind of messing with it and getting into it, and then finally one day I just let loose!" he said.
Friday afternoon, with a cook and a bird as his witnesses, Nick got out a pole driver.
"So I knocked that off, knocked that off, knocked these off,‰?? Powers said, pointing to the places on the safe where the hinges and handles once were. But before long in his process to open the safe, his eyes were burning.
"The door started moving a little bit, and I'm thinking 'alright here's the gold.' Yeah, I found the gold, it's just not what I was expecting,‰?? he said, laughing.
His reward? Tear gas! The safe had been booby trapped for more than 70 years.
"When I came down the second time, it was like hard to breathe and I was like 'this isn't good',‰?? said Powers.
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ITHACA FIRE DEPT. CONTAINED SO2 SPILL
Tags: us_NY, industrial, release, response, gas_cylinders, sulfur_dioxide
ITHACA ‰?? The Ithaca Fire Department‰??s hazmat team contained a chemical spill on Monday at the Ithaca Waste Water Treatment Facility.
A waste water treatment plant employee was moving a 150 pound sulfur dioxide cylinder when the tank‰??s supply line ruptured, an Ithaca Fire Department news release said.
The fire department was notified at 10:42 a.m. Monday, and hazmat technicians shut down sulfur dioxide, SO2, cylinders in the building, Fire Department Lt. Thomas Basher said.
There was no danger to the public, and firefighters wore hazmat suits as a precaution, Basher said. If the SO2 contacted water it could have produced sulfuric acid, which is a corrosive chemical that emits toxic fumes.
Technicians shut down all the cylinders, and they checked the area for other leaks but none were found, Basher said. The spilled SO2 didn‰??t react with any water, he added
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HAZARDOUS MATERIALS TEAM CONTAINS CHEMICAL SPILL AT CON-WAY INC. IN SAGINAW
Tags: us_MI, transportation, release, injury, corrosives, flammables
SAGINAW, MI ‰?? The Saginaw Fire Department's Hazardous Materials Team has contained a chemical spill at a local trucking and logistics company.
The spill occurred before 10 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 30, at Con-Way Inc., 611 Veterans Memorial Parkway.
According to Saginaw Fire Department Training and Safety Officer Ona Lee Aguilar, a corrosive and flammable chemical leaked from a 55-gallon drum after it was punctured during forklift transport.
"We did confirm that it is a chemical called pyrrolidine, which is an inhalation hazard," Aguilar said.
Employees were evacuated from the area where the chemical spilled. Two employees were sent to a hospital after expressing concern that they had inhaled the chemical, Aguilar said.
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ANOTHER BIOSAFETY LAPSE AT CDC
Tags: laboratory, discovery, environmental, other_chemical
The Zire Ebola virus bound to an antibody taken from a survivor of the 1995 outbreak in Kikwit, Zaire, via Unraveling Ebola.
Early last week, news came out that the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention sent live virus internally to a lab not equipped to handle it. One technician was potentially exposed to the virus and is being monitored, but so far she is reportedly showing no signs of the disease.
Stuart Nichol, chief of the CDC‰??s Viral Special Pathogens Branch, attributed the incident to human error, the New York Times reported.
Earlier this year, CDC ‰??closed influenza and anthrax research sites and halted all biological materials shipments from its highest level containment labs following safety breaches that endangered dozens of employees,‰?? C&EN reported. The White House Office of Science & Technology Policy subsequently encouraged government and nongovernment labs to do a ‰??safety stand-down‰?? to review safety practices.
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MASHPEE MAN TAKEN TO HOSPITAL AFTER HAZMAT SITUATION
Tags: us_MA, public, release, injury, unknown_chemical
MASHPEE - A Mashpee homeowner was taken to the hospital as a precaution after attempting to clean up an overflowing septic system.
Mashpee fire and a hazardous materials team responded to the scene on Back Road around 2 o‰??clock yesterday afternoon after the cleanup effort resulted in a mixture of chemicals that created a potentially hazardous situation.
The site has since been cleaned up.
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FIREFIGHTERS SHUT DOWN NELSON AMMONIA LEAK
Tags: New_Zealand, industrial, release, response, ammonia
Firefighters shut off an ammonia leak from the Alliance meat works at Stoke near Nelson which led to the closure of a main road yesterday.
A passerby who smelt the gas called emergency services and Main Road Stoke was closed at Champion Rd and Saxton Rd while the leak was investigated.
Station officer Derek Nilsen, of the Stoke volunteer brigade, said they confirmed ammonia was leaking from a refrigeration area of the plant. Two firefighters and a plant engineer wearing fully enclosed protective gear were able to stop the leak with a relief safety valve.
If the valve had not operated it would have been a lot more serious, he said. Ammonia gas could make breathing extremely difficult, he said.
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THREE WORKERS HOSPITALIZED AFTER CHLORINE RELEASE CHEMICAL PLANT
Tags: us_LA, industrial, release, injury, chlorine
ST. GABRIEL, LA (WAFB) -
Three people were taken to the hospital Monday morning for exposure to chlorine at a chemical plant in St. Gabriel.
Officials with the Olin Chlor Alkali plant confirmed there was a chlorine release from a product storage tank. A yellow-colored cloud was seen over the plant at the time of the incident.
Officials with the Iberville Fire Department say there was no off-site impact.
"While we have no indication the release has affected anyone outside of our facility, we did notify neighboring industrial facilities about the situation," reads an official statement from Olin. "We also notified the appropriate regulatory agencies. We will conduct a thorough analysis to identify what led to the release."
The workers were transported to Our Lady of the Lake hospital in Baton Rouge for evaluation.
According to the company's website, the plant produces Chlorine, Hydrochloric Acid, Potassium Hydroxide, Sodium Hydroxxide, Sodium Hypochlorite, and additional co-products.
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4 PEOPLE HOSPITALIZED AFTER CHEMICAL EXPOSURE IN BREVARD COUNTY
Tags: us_FL, public, release, injury, unknown_chemical
VIERA, Fla. ‰??Firefighters took 4 people to the hospital after a chemical exposure case in Brevard County on Monday night.
Brevard County Fire Rescue officials said 44 people were evaluated after being exposed to a mixture of household chemicals at Devereux Florida in Viera.
Only four of the 44 needed to be taken to the hospital, officials said.
Rescue officials said the injuries were minor.
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