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Subject: [DCHAS-L] Chemical Safety headlines from Google (12 articles)
Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 07:40:58 -0400
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Chemical Safety Headlines From Google
Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 7:40:39 AM
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Table of Contents (12 articles)
FIRE MARSHAL: 1 TREATED AFTER EXPOSURE TO CLEANING CHEMICALS ON
Tags: us_TX, transportation, release, injury, acids
TWO MEN INJURED AFTER AMMONIA LEAK IN SYDNEY‰??S SOUTHWEST
Tags: Australia, industrial, release, injury, ammonia
TRAIN DERAILMENT CAUSES FUEL SPILL IN GREAT FALLS
Tags: us_MT, transportation, release, response, diesel
4-ALARM CHEMICAL FIRE BLAZES IN SAN JOSE
Tags: us_CA, public, fire, response, runoff
THIS IS THE WORLD'S SMELLIEST CHEMICAL
Tags: Germany, laboratory, discovery, environmental, other_chemical
EVACUATIONS ORDERED AFTER CHEMICAL CARS DERAIL IN LOUISIANA
Tags: us_LA, transportation, release, response, sodium_hydroxide
RICHMOND: FIRE CREWS BATTLE BLAZE AT CHEMICAL LABORATORY
Tags: us_CA, laboratory, fire, response, unknown_chemical
CHEMICAL REACTION AT JAIL SICKENS OFFICERS, INMATES
Tags: us_ME, industrial, release, injury, cleaners
HAZMAT TEAM RESPONDS AT WAWA
Tags: us_NJ, public, release, response, gasoline
FIREFIGHTERS ON SCENE AT AMMONIA LEAK AT FRESH EXPRESS IN MORROW, AVOID THE AREA
Tags: us_GA, public, release, response, ammonia
EXPLOSION INJURES METRO OFFICER IN SANDY VALLEY
Tags: us_NV, public, explosion, injury, unknown_chemical
FIRE AT CHEMICAL PLANT
Tags: us_IL, laboratory, fire, response, pharmaceutical
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FIRE MARSHAL: 1 TREATED AFTER EXPOSURE TO CLEANING CHEMICALS ON
Tags: us_TX, transportation, release, injury, acids
LONGVIEW, TX (KLTV) -
A wrecker service employee was taken to the hospital Tuesday for chemical burns sustained while handling hazardous material on the scene of an overturned 18-wheeler on Interstate 20.
Longview Police PIO Kristie Brian says that driver of the 18-wheeler was attempting to exit I-20 on the off-ramp for exit 595 in Longview. The driver did not slow down enough, she said, and lost control of the vehicle, causing the trailer to roll over.
Longview Fire Marshal Johnny Zackary says the truck was carrying 20 different products, including acids and bases, to which the wrecker service employee was exposed. He was taken to the hospital by private vehicle to be treated.
Six other people were evaluated at the scene, but did not need treatment.
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TWO MEN INJURED AFTER AMMONIA LEAK IN SYDNEY‰??S SOUTHWEST
Tags: Australia, industrial, release, injury, ammonia
Two men are in hospital after ammonia leaked from a burst hose south-west of Sydney.
One man suffered burns to his arms and another was treated for inhalation after paramedics were called to the scene just after midday at an industrial building on Kurrajong Rd in Prestons.
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TRAIN DERAILMENT CAUSES FUEL SPILL IN GREAT FALLS
Tags: us_MT, transportation, release, response, diesel
GREAT FALLS - Emergency crews responded to the derailment of a rail care in Great Falls on Tuesday afternoon.
It happened at about 5:30 p.m. on the east side of town south of Giant Springs State Park.
Initial reports indicate that up to 2,000 gallons of diesel fuel may have spilled from a tanker rail car.
There have been no injuries.
There is no word yet on the cause of the incident.
Matt Jones, a spokesman for BNSF, tells MTN News that the derailment is being investigated.
Jones says that a fuel tank on the locomotive was ruptured in the accident.
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4-ALARM CHEMICAL FIRE BLAZES IN SAN JOSE
Tags: us_CA, public, fire, response, runoff
SAN JOSE (KRON) ‰?? A four alarm chemical fire broke out at a San Jose Automotive Business around 12:30 a.m., according to San Jose Fire Captain Mike Van Elgort, possibly endangering the surrounding area to exposed chemical waste.
The fire dispatcher said the fire is burning in the 400 block of Reynolds Circle, near U.S. Highway 101.
Van Elgort said fire officials discovered a sign warning of hazardous materials inside was posted on the burning building.
Van Elgort said chemicals inside the building contributed to the fire. Firefighters had stopped the spread of the fire by about 2:10 a.m., Van Elgort said.
The runoff from the fire is caustic because of the chemicals inside the building and crews are working to contain the runoff so it doesn‰??t harm the environment, according to fire officials.
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THIS IS THE WORLD'S SMELLIEST CHEMICAL
Tags: Germany, laboratory, discovery, environmental, other_chemical
Ever heard of thioacetone? If you live in Freiburg, Germany, you probably have. It takes a lot for people to forget a stink that once evacuated an entire city.
A factory in Freiberg attempted to make thioacetone in 1889. Thioacetone is not easy to make ‰?? the compound (CH3)2CS stays liquid only at temperatures of under -20 degrees celsius; get it any warmer and it clumps together and converts to a white solid called trithioacentone ‰?? but in either form, it stinks horribly. The odor from the factory was able to be smelled (what‰??s the word for smellable? Odible?) from half a kilometer away. It spread throughout the entire city, where it caused ‰??fainting, vomiting, and a panic evacuation‰?? according to factory workers.
That should have been enough for science, but it seems that chemists make it a point to never learn. In 1967, workers at an Esso station near Oxford decided to give it another go. A bottle came unstoppered and the entire lab found themselves ‰??with an odour problem beyond our worst expectations.‰?? The chemists replaced the stopper but, the incident, ‰??resulted in an immediate complaint of nausea and sickness from colleagues working in a building two hundred yards away.‰?? What‰??s more, it seems that thioacetone is the kind of smell that clings. Two chemists making tiny amounts of the thioacetone discovered that they couldn‰??t go to restaurants anymore because they stank so badly that waitresses sprayed the air around them with deodorant.
The Esso people abandoned the project, for obvious reasons, but not before they figured out how bad thioacetone stank. They were the ones to figure out that thioacetone‰??s odor had a reach of half a kilometer, but also that it only took a single drop to contaminate the area with its noxious smell. Thanks, guys!
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EVACUATIONS ORDERED AFTER CHEMICAL CARS DERAIL IN LOUISIANA
Tags: us_LA, transportation, release, response, sodium_hydroxide
Six tanker cars, three of them carrying caustic or hazardous chemicals ‰?? including lye ‰?? derailed Tuesday in Addis, Louisiana, triggering a state of emergency and the mandatory evacuation of residents around the scene, West Baton Rouge Parish officials confirmed.
The parish's Office of Homeland Security ordered everyone within 1,000 feet to leave the area, in about 35 homes, while the cars are righted. People within 300 feet were told they weren't likely to be allowed back in until Wednesday morning. Officials said the cars didn't appear to have been damaged and that the evacuations were precautionary.
NBC station WVLA of Baton Rouge reported that the Addis VFW Hall was being used as an emergency shelter. Addis is across the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge, the state capital.
Authorities said the chemical cars, which were being pulled by a Union Pacific locomotive, were carrying sodium hydroxide, better known as lye; propylene oxide, an eye and respiratory irritant; and propylene dichloride, a strong acid.
West Baton Rouge Parish President Riley Bertholet Jr. declared a local disaster emergency, and Addis police were going door to door Tuesday night to alert residents and assist with the evacuation, the homeland security office said.
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RICHMOND: FIRE CREWS BATTLE BLAZE AT CHEMICAL LABORATORY
Tags: us_CA, laboratory, fire, response, unknown_chemical
ICHMOND -- Fire crews fought a blaze in a chemical processing boiler room at a laboratory Monday night, officials said.
Richmond Fire responded to a report of a boiler room fire at 8:50 p.m. Monday at a laboratory at the 3000 block of Regatta Boulevard, said Battalion Chief Merlin Turner. An employee of the chemical manufacturer noticed the fire in the processing boiler room.
Automatic sprinklers over the boiler contained the fire to that room, Turner said. The presence of hazardous chemical in the room made the blaze difficult to control, but the fire was extinguished in 20 minutes.
Chemicals contained in 55-gallon drums in the room that were not released into the air or through water runoff.
No one was injured during the fire, Turner said. Damage to the boiler room was estimated $100,000 loss to the facility.
Due to the hazardous materials in the laboratory, crews tested pH levels to check for chemicals in the air or in water runoff. Crews haven't determined what caused the fire, Turner said. Hazardous materials crews and investigators remained at the scene Monday night.
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CHEMICAL REACTION AT JAIL SICKENS OFFICERS, INMATES
Tags: us_ME, industrial, release, injury, cleaners
ALFRED, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- Two corrections officers went to the hospital late Monday night after a chemical reaction in the laundry room of the York County Jail released a noxious gas.
Two chemicals were accidentally mixed causing the gas to fill part of the jail, jail officials said.
Two inmates who were in the laundry room at the time complained of feeling sick or said they had sore throats.
Two correctional officers at the jail also were sickened by the order ‰?? also complaining of having sore throats -- and were taken to the hospital for observation.
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HAZMAT TEAM RESPONDS AT WAWA
Tags: us_NJ, public, release, response, gasoline
GLOUCESTER TWP. ‰?? A Wawa closed for a few hours Sunday after a service station attendant pumped gas into a boat bilge instead of into its gas tank.
Lt. Brendan Barton said the store at 2700 Sicklerville Road near Route 42 had to close around 4 p.m. while a Camden County Hazardous Materials Response Team was called to Gloucester Township and safely removed the gas from the bilge. Several area fire departments also responded.
Barton said the attendant filled the first of two gas tanks on the boat and then used the wrong opening for the second tank. He said the store management phoned police to report the a ‰??spill‰?? though no fuel was spilled on the ground.
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FIREFIGHTERS ON SCENE AT AMMONIA LEAK AT FRESH EXPRESS IN MORROW, AVOID THE AREA
Tags: us_GA, public, release, response, ammonia
MORROW ‰?? Clayton County firefighters are getting ready to enter Fresh Express in Morrow in Level 3 hazmat suits in an attempt to clean up an ammonia leak.
##Spokesman Battalion Chief David Vasquez told Clayton News that officials are asking residents to stay out of the area. Part of Southern Road where the Fresh Market is located is blocked off and clogged up with tractor trailers trying to make deliveries.
##Vazquez said 400 people evacuated the building when the leak was reported at about 11:59 a.m. The ammonia has allegedly been contained to one room and there are no injuries or sicknesses reported at this time.
##He said the ammonia Fresh Express uses is more dangerous than its household counterpart because it‰??s a higher concentration used for refrigerating and cleaning the entire building.
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EXPLOSION INJURES METRO OFFICER IN SANDY VALLEY
Tags: us_NV, public, explosion, injury, unknown_chemical
A Las Vegas police officer was seriously burned on his face, neck and hands by exploding debris while on a call in Sandy Valley on Monday.
A civilian also suffered minor burns in what may be an accidental explosion, police said. First responders were sent in for medical support about 5:46 p.m., according to Clark County Fire Department dispatch logs.
The officer, whose name was not immediately released, was called to investigate an abandoned residence in the 2000 block of Woods Avenue in Sandy Valley, which is about 60 miles southwest of Las Vegas. When the home was cleared by the officer, people gathered up garbage from a previous tenant in a ‰??burn barrel,‰?? Metropolitan Police Department supervisor Lt. Dave Valenta said.
An unknown item or chemical in the barrel exploded, and the officer was the closest to it. He was taken in a helicopter to University Medical Center. His condition was not released.
Valenta said Metro‰??s hazardous materials ARMOR unit, as well the Las Vegas Fire Department bomb squad were investigating the incident to determine what caused the explosion.
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FIRE AT CHEMICAL PLANT
Tags: us_IL, laboratory, fire, response, pharmaceutical
CHAMPAIGN -- Fire caused a chemical spill Monday. It happened at Orbiter Research. The company is on the corner of Gemini Court and Mercury Drive. Orbiter makes chemicals for pharmaceutical companies.
Fire officials say an employee was working with an alcohol-based product when static caused a spark igniting the fire. The building was evacuated. When crews finished with the scene, Orbiter employees will clean up what's left of the chemical. No one was hurt.
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