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Friday, November 13, 2015 at 7:00:50 AM
A membership benefit of the ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety
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Table of Contents (13 articles)
HAZMAT INVESTIGATING CHEMICAL SPILL AT ST. JOHNS COUNTY JAIL
Tags: us_FL, industrial, release, injury, unknown_chemical
OTAGO, SOUTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND & INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Tags: New_Zealand, public, release, response, mercury
FIRES AT PLASTIC, CHEMICAL UNITS
Tags: India, industrial, fire, injury, unknown_chemical
FIRE IN LABORATORY OVEN FORCES EVACUATION OF MORRILL 4 SCIENCE BUILDING
Tags: us_MA, laboratory, fire, response, fire_extinguisher
MINOR CHEMICAL SPILL KEEPS STUDENTS OUT OF FRANKLIN REGIONAL MIDDLE SCHOOL
Tags: us_PA, education, release, response, chlorine
EXPLOSION AT EXCEL TSD FACILITY SENDS 2 TO HOSPITAL
Tags: us_TN, industrial, explosion, injury, sodium_hydroxide, sulfuric_acid, waste
THIS CHEMISTRY FIRE DEMONSTRATION HAS REPEATEDLY BURNED STUDENTS
Tags: us_DC, laboratory, follow-up, injury, flammables, metals
FIRE DEPARTMENTS HANDLING ANHYDROUS AMMONIA CALLS
Tags: us_IL, industrial, release, response, ammonia, nitrogen
CHLORINE GAS LEAK CONTAINED AT PARKVILLE WATER PLANT
Tags: us_MO, public, release, response, chlorine, water_treatment
HOOSICK FALLS WORRIED CHEMICAL MAY BE IN DRINKING WATER
Tags: us_NY, industrial, release, environmental, other_chemical
CHEMICALS DID NOT HELP DISPERSE BP‰??S OIL SPILL, HURT OIL-DEGRADING MICRO-ORGANISMS ‰?? STUDY ‰?? RT USA
Tags: us_GA, public, discovery, environmental, cleaners, oils
THAT'S NOT SNOW: CREWS WORK TO CLEAN UP CHEMICAL SPILL
Tags: us_PA, public, release, response, dust, plastics
FIREFIGHTERS AT NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY AFTER CHEMICAL SPILL AT BACTERIAL BIOLOGY BUILDING
Tags: United_Kingdom, laboratory, release, response, unknown_chemical
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HAZMAT INVESTIGATING CHEMICAL SPILL AT ST. JOHNS COUNTY JAIL
Tags: us_FL, industrial, release, injury, unknown_chemical
ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. -
St. Johns County hazmat team is investigating a situation in the jail kitchen after a chemical spill Thursday evening.
The St. Johns County Sheriff‰??s Office said several inmates who work in the jail were cleaning up after dinner and spilled a chemical that mixed with another chemical.
Deputies said about nine people inhaled the fumes, and hazmat is examining the inmates and ventilating that area.
The inmates are supervised by a company that‰??s contracted.
No one was transported to the hospital.
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OTAGO, SOUTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND & INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Tags: New_Zealand, public, release, response, mercury
A specialist hazardous materials unit was called to deal with a mercury spill on a rural property near Alexandra last night.
Southern fire communications centre shift manager Tim Reynolds said nobody was injured, although one person underwent a medical check as a precaution.
No-one was evacuated from the Waldron Rd property where the spill occurred or from surrounding properties.
''It's been contained and there's no risk to the general public,'' Mr Reynolds said.
He had no idea why mercury would be at the property.
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FIRES AT PLASTIC, CHEMICAL UNITS
Tags: India, industrial, fire, injury, unknown_chemical
KOLKATA: Panic gripped Beliaghata as a major fire broke out in a plastic factory opposite the sales tax office on Thursday evening. It took 20 fire engines over two hours to bring the fire under control. No lives were lost but the factory was gutted. The building housed a factory that made products of fibre glass and plastic. A lot of related chemicals too were stored there.
Another section of the building was used to manufacture shutters. A firefighter was reportedly injured. At another part of town, a chemical factory near Joka tram depot caught fire. Late into the night, the firefighting was still on. .
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FIRE IN LABORATORY OVEN FORCES EVACUATION OF MORRILL 4 SCIENCE BUILDING
Tags: us_MA, laboratory, fire, response, fire_extinguisher
AMHERST ‰?? A fire in a microbiology laboratory at the Morrill 4 North Science Building at 639 North Pleasant St. forced the evacuation of students and professors from the building and a response by the Amherst Fire Department Thursday afternoon.
There were no injuries as a result of the incident.
University of Massachusetts spokesman Larry Rivais said the fire began in an oven in Room 114, a laboratory on the first floor, at 3:15 p.m. and was put out by firefighters about 15 minutes later.
‰??The fire was contained to the oven, but there was a lot of smoke,‰?? Rivais said.
Assistant Fire Chief Lindsay Stromgren said an experiment caught on fire inside the laboratory-grade oven. After the people conducting the experiment were unsuccessful in using a fire extinguisher to put out the blaze, they pulled the alarm, prompting the response in which firefighters were assisted by UMass Police and UMass Environmental Health and Safety officials.
Firefighters were able to get the fire under control, after it briefly burned outside the oven, by using a fire extinguisher.
‰??The oven itself is destroyed, and there was pretty significant smoke and soot damage,‰?? Stromgren said.
Stromgren said soil samples were being cooked in the oven, but it was uncertain why the fire occurred because soil does not burn.
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MINOR CHEMICAL SPILL KEEPS STUDENTS OUT OF FRANKLIN REGIONAL MIDDLE SCHOOL
Tags: us_PA, education, release, response, chlorine
MURRYSVILLE, Pa. ‰??Students at Franklin Regional Middle School were temporarily moved to the high school Thursday morning.
According to a statement on the school district‰??s website, the students were moved because of a problem with a mechanical system in the middle school building.
The mechanical issue led to a small amount of chlorine spilling. A spokeswoman says students were being kept out of the building Thursday out of an abundance of caution.
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EXPLOSION AT EXCEL TSD FACILITY SENDS 2 TO HOSPITAL
Tags: us_TN, industrial, explosion, injury, sodium_hydroxide, sulfuric_acid, waste
Two workers at a Southwest Memphis industrial facility are recovering after they were injured in a chemical explosion Thursday morning.
The Memphis Fire Department responded to the call at 8:53 a.m. at the Excel TSD facility at 552 Rivergate.
Lt. Wayne Cooke, spokesman for the fire department, said the employees were off-loading sodium hydroxide from a tanker to a portable vat. He said the vat employees thought was empty contained sulfuric acid and when it reacted with the hydroxide it caused smoke and an explosion.
"When we arrived there was no smoke and no fire," Cooke said.
The two men, the tanker driver and his passenger, were taken to the Regional Medical Center. One was in stable condition and the other was in critical condition.
Excel TSD is a commercial hazardous waste storage, treatment and disposal facility, according to the company's website. It has been at the site on Rivergate since 2003.
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THIS CHEMISTRY FIRE DEMONSTRATION HAS REPEATEDLY BURNED STUDENTS
Tags: us_DC, laboratory, follow-up, injury, flammables, metals
When a fire broke out in a Fairfax County high school chemistry laboratory two weeks ago, it was the latest in a string of incidents in which well-intentioned instructional demonstrations ‰?? meant to captivate students while teaching them important chemistry lessons ‰?? went out of control, injuring students.
The fire at W.T. Woodson High School burned two students seriously, sent three others to the hospital and lit the teacher‰??s shirt on fire. The accident raised questions about the risks of certain kinds of chemistry demonstrations, particularly those that involve igniting flammable liquids in close proximity to observers.
According to students who said they were in the class at Woodson, the teacher poured flammable liquid onto a desk and lit it with a Bunsen burner, passing metals through the flame to show how it altered the flame‰??s color. When the flame appeared to die down, the students said, the teacher poured on more of the liquid, causing a sudden ‰??splash of fire‰?? that burned students nearby.
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FIRE DEPARTMENTS HANDLING ANHYDROUS AMMONIA CALLS
Tags: us_IL, industrial, release, response, ammonia, nitrogen
Firefighters in Springfield and surrounding communities have been responding to anhydrous ammonia leaks over the past few days as area farmers get their fields ready for next year's crops.
Springfield firefighters responded to an ammonia leak west of town Tuesday, and Chatham firefighters were called out to a leak south of their community over the weekend.
Scott Weitekamp, leader of the Springfield Fire Department's hazardous materials team, said the department has handled about 10 anhydrous-related calls this year, which isn't unusual. He added that none of the recent calls has been serious enough to call out the department's entire hazmat team. Instead, they've been handled by engine companies that typically include a member of the team.
"Ninety percent of the time, it's just a loose valve or a valve that wasn't closed all the way," Weitekamp said.
Jim Birge, manager of the Sangamon County Farm Bureau office, said anhydrous ammonia is a product farmers use to put nitrogen into the soil. It is added when the weather gets colder, which ensures that it doesn't turn into a gas and leave the soil.
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CHLORINE GAS LEAK CONTAINED AT PARKVILLE WATER PLANT
Tags: us_MO, public, release, response, chlorine, water_treatment
PARKVILLE, Mo. ‰??Hazardous materials say an incident in downtown Parkville is over.
Investigators said there was a chlorine gas leak at the Parkville water treatment plant and they were concerned high wind in the area might fan the fumes.
"They opened up the door to check on it, and apparently they could hear some hissing, and smelled chlorine," said Dean Cull of the South Platte Fire District. "So they shut the door and called us."
The incident was related to Wednesday's weather and power outages, Parkville firefighters said. They said there are tanks of chlorine in a room at the facility. When the power goes off, caps on the tanks tighten to try to prevent a leak. When the power came back on, the caps loosened like they're supposed to.
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HOOSICK FALLS WORRIED CHEMICAL MAY BE IN DRINKING WATER
Tags: us_NY, industrial, release, environmental, other_chemical
HOOSICK FALLS, N.Y. (NEWS10) ‰?? People packed a village meeting in Hoosick Falls Tuesday night after receiving a notice their water might be contaminated.
Manufacturing plant Saint Gobain announced on Tuesday that water samples near its site tested positive for a chemical called PFOA. It is unknown how widespread the contamination is, but people living in the village are worried their well water is also contaminated.
‰??It‰??s very concerning,‰?? Kevin Allard said.
Allard doesn‰??t want tap water to become a luxury, but he isn‰??t sure if his well water is completely safe.
While PFOA isn‰??t regulated, some studies have linked it to serious health concerns.
‰??If that plume goes outside the village limits, I mean how far is that?‰?? Allard wondered.
The American Cancer Society reports that too much exposure to PFOA is linked to thyroid disease, testicular cancer and other serious health risks.
‰??There‰??s a fairly robust body of literature out here that addresses various health effects,‰?? attorney David Engel said.
But other agencies said more research and evidence is needed.
‰??We‰??re caught in a Catch 22, if you will, because this is a non-regulated contaminant,‰?? Hoosick Falls Mayor David Borge said. ‰??There are no rules.‰??
Due to the findings, Saint Gobain said they will pay an estimated $2 million for a water filtration system in the village and provide bottled water to people who are worried about contamination.
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CHEMICALS DID NOT HELP DISPERSE BP‰??S OIL SPILL, HURT OIL-DEGRADING MICRO-ORGANISMS ‰?? STUDY ‰?? RT USA
Tags: us_GA, public, discovery, environmental, cleaners, oils
Chemical dispersants applied from a plane onto the Gulf of Mexico spill removed oil from the water‰??s surface but did not help fully degrade it, a new study claims. Scientists also found the dispersants hurt useful bacteria that were helping the clean-up.
After the spill from the Deepwater Horizon rig in 2010, which led to 172 million gallons (650 million liters) of oil flowing into the Gulf, the chemical agent Corexit 9500 was sprayed from the air onto the slick. It was used in efforts to degrade the spill and assist maritime bacteria to remove the oil faster.
At a surface level, the maritime area affected by the spill seemed to become cleaner, but the bacteria and chemicals themselves were not properly monitored, according to University of Georgia marine scientist Samantha Joye.
To analyze the efficiency of the chemicals, Joye‰??s team modelled the process in a lab, where samples of the dispersant, BP oil, and sea water from the Gulf of Mexico were used. The chemicals did not help the bacteria remove the oil, and even hurt one oil-eating bug critically important to dissolving the spill, according to the study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
‰??The dispersants did a great job in that they got the oil off the surface,‰?? Joye commented in her article, as quoted by The Telegraph. ‰??What you see is the dispersants didn't ramp up biodegradation.‰??
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THAT'S NOT SNOW: CREWS WORK TO CLEAN UP CHEMICAL SPILL
Tags: us_PA, public, release, response, dust, plastics
NEW HOLLAND, Pa. ‰??Crews are working to clean up a chemical spill in Lancaster County.
Crews are working to clean up a chemical spill in Lancaster County. It happened along the 200 block of Jalyn Drive in New Holland on Tuesday morning. The PVC, a chemical powder which resembles snow, overflowed out of a silo and dusted the surrounding area - including a parking lot filled with cars.
It happened along the 200 block of Jalyn Drive in New Holland on Tuesday morning.
The chemical, polymer of vinyl chloride or PVC, is a type of shredded plastic used for fencing. The PVC, a powder which resembles snow, overflowed out of a silo and dusted the surrounding area - including a parking lot filled with cars.
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FIREFIGHTERS AT NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY AFTER CHEMICAL SPILL AT BACTERIAL BIOLOGY BUILDING
Tags: United_Kingdom, laboratory, release, response, unknown_chemical
A clean-up operation following a chemical spillage at a university building is now complete.
The alarm was raised at Newcastle University after an unknown substance was spilled at one of its medical science buildings.
Police were informed of the incident, at the Baddiley-Clark Building, at the Centre for Bacterial Biology, on Richardson Road, Newcastle, at around 5.45pm today.
The Baddiley-Clark building is next to the university‰??s medical school and the Richardson Road student accommodation which is home to 942 students.
There were five fire engines and two special appliances from Tyne and Wear Fire Service at the building as firefighters safely cleaned up the spill.
Police officers were also on the scene to assist and the spillage was cleared by around 8pm.
A Newcastle University spokesman said: ‰??There was a minor chemical spillage in a University research building. The fire services attended and the clean-up exercise has now been completed.‰??
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