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Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 07:23:15 -0500
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Chemical Safety Headlines From Google
Friday, March 4, 2016 at 7:23:04 AM
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Table of Contents (7 articles)
WORKERS RESCUED FROM CHEMICAL PLANT BLAZE IN GLASGOW
Tags: United_Kingdom, industrial, fire, response, dust, waste
UW-MADISON FINED $56,000 IN AIRPORT HAZMAT INCIDENT
Tags: us_WI, transportation, discovery, response, flammables, illegal
HAZMAT TEAM CLEANS MERCURY SPILL IN GOGEBIC COUNTY
Tags: us_MI, public, release, response, mercury
CHEMICAL MIX CLEARS GYM FOR 6 HOURS
Tags: us_CA, public, release, response, ammonia, bleach
CREWS BATTLE CHEMICAL PLANT FIRE IN CARTERSVILLE
Tags: us_GA, industrial, fire, response, dust
MASSIVE FIRE AT STAFFORD CHEMICAL FIRM FORCES RESIDENTS TO EVACUATE
Tags: United_Kingdom, industrial, explosion, response, other_chemical
BATTLING THE BURN: CAMP MINDEN'S FIGHT AGAINST OPEN-AIR
Tags: us_LA, industrial, follow-up, environmental, bomb, explosives
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WORKERS RESCUED FROM CHEMICAL PLANT BLAZE IN GLASGOW
Tags: United_Kingdom, industrial, fire, response, dust, waste
Three factory workers were rescued as firefighters tackled a blaze at a waste treatment plant in Glasgow.
A level 2 Hazmat Incident was declared after crews arrived at the Clearwater premises on Boden Street in Bridgeton to find a fire throwing up "a large amount of smoke and dust".
Three fire appliances are at the scene along with an environmental protection unit.
A scientist is also assisting as emergency services try to ascertain the nature of the incident and whether chemicals could be involved.
As a precaution, nearby streets have been cordoned off and local residents advised to stay indoors and keep their windows closed.
A fire service spokesman said they were called to the incident at 5.30pm on Thursday and there were no casualties.
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UW-MADISON FINED $56,000 IN AIRPORT HAZMAT INCIDENT
Tags: us_WI, transportation, discovery, response, flammables, illegal
MADISON (WKOW) -- Federal Aviation Administration officials say UW-Madison was fined $56,000 after a university researcher put hazardous materials in luggage and checked the baggage onto a flight, only to have TSA screeners intercept the cargo.
Officials say the material included research-grade alcohol, which FAA spokesperson Tony Molinaro calls "highly flammable."
Officials say corrosive epoxy resin was also in the traveling graduate student's baggage.
The Jan. 13, 2015 Delta Airlines flight was bound from Dane County Regional Airport to Minneapolis. UW officials say the researcher's complete, travel itinerary was domestic only.
UW-Madison officials say the student did not realize his cargo had to be treated as hazardous material.
In a statement, UW-Madison officials say both the student and another involved, student researcher received more intensive training after the incident.
They say beyond the two students, there were "...steps...to raise awareness and train University researchers, faculty, staff and administrators on hazardous materials and chemical packaging."
UW-Madison officials consider the incident isolated, and say with considerable research travel across several academic disciplines at the university, the school's safety record is good.
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HAZMAT TEAM CLEANS MERCURY SPILL IN GOGEBIC COUNTY
Tags: us_MI, public, release, response, mercury
ERWIN TOWNSHIP " Authorities have cleaned up what they called "a large mercury spill" Wednesday night in Gogebic County.
The Upper Peninsula Regional Hazardous Materials Team was called out to a home in Erwin Township.
A homeowner was cleaning the basement when a glass bottle of mercury was knocked over, breaking on the concrete floor.
The homeowner evacuated the house and called 911.
The hazardous materials team recovered approximately three ounces of mercury and several contaminated items.
The Western UP Health Department is also assisting the family.
Mercury is a liquid metal once thought to be safe, but it is highly toxic, even in small amounts.
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CHEMICAL MIX CLEARS GYM FOR 6 HOURS
Tags: us_CA, public, release, response, ammonia, bleach
A fitness gym in Valencia shut down operation for close to six hours Wednesday after someone accidently mixed bleach and ammonia, a spokeswoman with the Los Angeles County Fire Department said.
The incident was reported shortly before 10 a.m. at the L.A. Fitness near the intersection of Newhall Ranch Road and Copper Hill Drive, said Supervising Fire Department Dispatcher Cheryl Sims.
"Someone had mixed bleach and ammonia," she said. "It was a small amount."
The combination can create poisonous gas.
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CREWS BATTLE CHEMICAL PLANT FIRE IN CARTERSVILLE
Tags: us_GA, industrial, fire, response, dust
BARTOW COUNTY, Ga. " A Cartersville chemical plant caught fire Wednesday morning.
The fire was reported at Chemical Products Corporation on Old Mill Road.
A powder called anthraquinone caught fire because of an electrical short in one of the buildings at the plant, according to the plant"s technical director Jerry Cook.
The powder is distributed to paper companies.
Nearby businesses, schools and a few homes were put on a soft lockdown.
"Just at the initial part of it we had (them) sheltering in place and shutting down their HVAC units to keep from sucking in that air," Fire Chief Craig Millsap said.
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MASSIVE FIRE AT STAFFORD CHEMICAL FIRM FORCES RESIDENTS TO EVACUATE
Tags: United_Kingdom, industrial, explosion, response, other_chemical
Homes are being evacuated around an industrial estate in Stafford while more than 60 firefighters battle a massive blaze at a chemical company that is in danger of spreading to a store of 40,000 litres of oil.
Witnesses reported hearing explosions and pictures circulated on Wednesday of thick black smoke rising from the inferno at the premises of Global Hygiene, a supplier of cleaning, industrial and janitorial products, on the Astonfields industrial estate.
One person has been treated by paramedics after suffering minor burns, according to a Staffordshire fire and rescue service spokeswoman. Police are working to evacuate nearby homes, while those outside the evacuation zone have been warned to keep windows and doors shut.
Local people posted pictures on Twitter showing balls of flame erupting from the site and a thick plume of smoke rising into the sky above it. One witness, Si̢n Williams, said a chunk of charcoal had landed in her back garden and that ash was falling from the sky like snow.
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BATTLING THE BURN: CAMP MINDEN'S FIGHT AGAINST OPEN-AIR
Tags: us_LA, industrial, follow-up, environmental, bomb, explosives
WEBSTER PARISH, La.
It started with a bang.
"There were two flashes almost simultaneously," said Webster Parish Sheriff Gary Sexton in October of 2012. He was describing an explosion at Camp Minden. After it happened, Sexton says dispatch got hundreds of calls. "They were all about the explosion, the shaking of the residences, the broken glass and the pictures off the wall."
A bunker at Camp Minden had blown up, and the boom lit up a dangerous situation.
State Representative Gene Reynolds says, "When investigators went in there, they found, I think it was, 18 million pounds of M-6 and several more million of pounds of other explosives."
M-6, a military chemical, was improperly stored on the base, and experts think it was collecting for decades.
Dr. Robert Flournoy, an environmental expert familiar with Camp Minden, says, "Nobody really knows how long it's been there, but most people think 25 to 35 years."
The question became how do to get rid of this chemical.
"It came out there were over 16 million pounds, which is equal to seven and a half tons. The atomic bomb that was dropped in Japan and killed 100,000 people was ten tons. We are looking at a huge amount of ammunition," says Flournoy.
For the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, the military and the Environmental Protection Agency, the answer was an open air burn.
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