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Chemical Safety Headlines From Google
Friday, January 2, 2015 at 7:57:33 AM
A service of the ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety
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Table of Contents (7 articles)
CP INVESTIGATING CHEMICAL SPILL NEAR LETHBRIDGE
Tags: Canada, transportation, release, response, phosphoric_acid
FIREFIGHTERS DISCOVER TOXIC CHEMICAL
Tags: New_Zealand, industrial, fire, response, copper_sulphate, toxics
WRECK INVOLVING RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL CLOSES I-35 SOUTHBOUND IN DOWNTOWN KC
Tags: us_KS, transportation, release, injury, radiation
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
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CP INVESTIGATING CHEMICAL SPILL NEAR LETHBRIDGE
Tags: Canada, transportation, release, response, phosphoric_acid
CP Rail is investigating after a chemical spill was reported at a railyard northwest of the City of Lethbridge.
An Alberta Emergency Alert was issued on Monday when crews spotted phosphoric acid leaking from a rail car.
Fire crews were called to the Kipp Railyard, which is located just outside the community, soon after the leak was detected.
The facility was evacuated and no injuries were reported.
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FIREFIGHTERS DISCOVER TOXIC CHEMICAL
Tags: New_Zealand, industrial, fire, response, copper_sulphate, toxics
A fire safety officer is urging farmers to ensure toxic chemicals stored on their property are logged with officials to prevent potential harm to firefighters after 120,000 litres of a hazardous substance was discovered during a large shed fire on a farm near Dargaville.
Northland fire safety officer Craig Bain said a firefighter's job was dangerous enough without having to deal with large amounts of unexpected hazardous chemicals.
Mr Bain said that under the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act (HaSNo), farmers had to log quantities of hazardous chemicals.
But, he said, when firefighters turned up to fight a large blaze at a farm shed on Hoanga Rd, northeast of Dargaville on Tuesday, they discovered 600, 200-litre drums of tetraamminecopper sulfate in the shed.
Mr Bain said the fire was believed to have been caused by silage in one end of the roughly 50m by 20m 10-bay shed spontaneously combusting. Firefighters spent almost six hours bringing the fire under control after being called out just after 5pm, with embers igniting pallets at the site at 5.30am yesterday, sparking another almost two-hour call-out to dampen down the flames.
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WRECK INVOLVING RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL CLOSES I-35 SOUTHBOUND IN DOWNTOWN KC
Tags: us_KS, transportation, release, injury, radiation
Three southbound lanes of Interstate 35 are closed in downtown Kansas City because of an accident involving a van carrying nuclear medical material. Just after midnight, one lane had opened.
The two-vehicle wreck occurred about 9:40 p.m. just past 20th Street. The southbound lanes are closed at Interstate 670. Ramps from I-670 to I-35 also are closed. No word yet on when the highway will reopen.
Two people were taken to hospitals.
HazMat crews were called in when radioactive material was detected in a van involved in the accident. It was not considered to be at an unsafe level. The van belongs to Associated Couriers, Inc. The company‰??s website says it is a ‰??specialized carrier of nuclear medicine.‰??
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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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