On Nov 9, 2016 3:27 PM, "Richard Rosera" <richardrosera**At_Symbol_Here**gmail.com> wrote:

I have a suggestion with respect to classification categories that was triggered by the "BUTANE HONEY OIL LAB EXPLOSION INJURES TWO" clipping below. This was certainly not a "meth_lab", but I looked over the classification categories & saw nothing related to either "cannabis" or "marijuana", or anything else I thought would be appropriate. Given the current public interest & activity with respect to marijuana, shouldn't there be a specific category for this, rather than lumping it in with "meth_lab"?

Regards, Richard Rosera
Rosearray EHS Services LLC
908-279-4463

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> On Nov 9, 2016, at 7:10 AM, DCHAS Secretary <secretary**At_Symbol_Here**DCHAS.ORG> wrote:
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> Chemical Safety Headlines From Google
> Wednesday, November 9, 2016 at 7:10:02 AM
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> A membership benefit of the ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety
> All article summaries and tags are archived at http://pinboard.in/u:dchas
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> Table of Contents (7 articles)
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> INVESTIGATION UNDERWAY INTO CAUSE OF FATAL BASF EXPLOSION
> Tags: Germany, industrial, follow-up, death, unknown_chemical
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> EVACUATIONS FOLLOW PORT ALLEGANY CHLORINE GAS LEAK
> Tags: us_PA, industrial, release, response, chlorine
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> CHARGER CAUSES HAZMAT SITUATION AT ROXBURY SCHOOL
> Tags: us_MA, education, release, injury, unknown_chemical
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> BUTANE HONEY OIL LAB EXPLOSION INJURES TWO
> Tags: us_CA, public, explosion, response, butane, meth_lab
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> SPACEX FINDS ROCKET EXPLOSION 'SMOKING GUN'
> Tags: industrial, follow-up, environmental, liquid_oxygen
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> CLEANAWAY OPERATIONS PTY LTD FACING $1.5 MILLION FINE OVER CHEMICAL BLAZE THAT INJURED WORKER
> Tags: Australia, industrial, follow-up, injury, solvent, waste
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> CHEMICAL AT PONTELAND SCHOOL TO BE BLOWN UP BY BOMB SQUAD AFTER FEARS IT COULD BE UNSAFE
> Tags: United_Kingdom, laboratory, discovery, response, dinitrophenylhydrazine, time-sensitive
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> INVESTIGATION UNDERWAY INTO CAUSE OF FATAL BASF EXPLOSION
> Tags: Germany, industrial, follow-up, death, unknown_chemical
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> London - Kurt Bock, CEO of German chemical giant BASF SE, said during a London press event Nov. 7 that an investigation is underway about the cause of the Oct. 17 fire and explosion at its Ludwigshafen, Germany plant which resulted in the death of four people.
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> The explosion followed a fire which began on a pipeline at the group's North Harbor facility last month. Three fire fighters who were tackling the initial blaze were killed in the subsequent explosion, along with a sailor who was working by the river.
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> Bock said an independent investigation into the incident was underway, but it appeared that contractors had been working on the wrong pipeline when the incident happened.
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> "This has been an emotionally tough and traumatic experience for everyone, both in Ludwigshafen and for BASF colleagues globally."
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> EVACUATIONS FOLLOW PORT ALLEGANY CHLORINE GAS LEAK
> Tags: us_PA, industrial, release, response, chlorine
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> A chlorine gas leak shut down portions of Port Allegany and forced the evacuation of 50 to 100 people Monday morning.
> No injures were reported in the incident that emergency responders made quick work of containing, McKean County Emergency Services Director Andrew Johnson reported to The Era.
> The incident, which started around 8 a.m. Monday, involved a faulty valve on the borough's water well on Pearl Street in the borough, Johnson said. He said that people were evacuated from Pearl Street and Main Street from Church Street to Arnold Avenue north in the borough.
> Around 10 a.m. Monday, many people with cell phones in McKean County received a Civil Danger Alert issued for Port Allegany, leaving many to wonder what had happened.
> But around that same time, the leak had been contained, and the system's manufacturer was on the way, according to Johnson and Borough Manager Bob Veilleux.
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> CHARGER CAUSES HAZMAT SITUATION AT ROXBURY SCHOOL
> Tags: us_MA, education, release, injury, unknown_chemical
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> ROXBURY (CBS) - Eight at a Roxbury school went to the hospital after inhaling fumes from an overheated charger.
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> Firefighters say an electronic device charger overheated and sparked on Monday at the Manville School, and when a teacher tried to cool it down in some water, the device let off gas that made students and staff sick.
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> Students and staff at the Manville School in Roxbury were sickened by an overheated charger. (WBZ-TV)
> "The student had a charger and that charger apparently started to heat up, started sparking and then he threw it down," a fire official said. "Some people came and helped him, they took it to the bathroom and tried to isolate it. They - put it in a bucket, filled it with water and it started to off gas."
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> The gas made people nearby light headed. An ambulance took seven people to the hospital, and one person drove himself.
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> BUTANE HONEY OIL LAB EXPLOSION INJURES TWO
> Tags: us_CA, public, explosion, response, butane, meth_lab
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> Two people suffered major burns Friday night in a butane honey oil lab explosion in southeast Bakersfield, according to the Kern County Sheriff's Office.
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> A third person at the scene was not injured.
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> At about 10:30 p.m., deputies were dispatched to the 500 block of Price Street after reports of a structure fire and large explosion, a sheriff's news release said. They found a residence partially engulfed in flames and with major structural damage.
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> Two of the occupants were taken to a local hospital with major burns.
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> Firefighters and arson investigators determined a butane honey oil lab explosion caused the fire. No arrests have been made in the case, officials said Monday, which is being investigated by the Sheriff's Office, California Multi-Jurisdictional Methamphetamine Enforcement Team and the Bakersfield Fire Department.
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> Honey oil, which is commonly referred to as "wax," is a highly concentrated form of THC, the chemical responsible for marijuana's psychological effects.
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> SPACEX FINDS ROCKET EXPLOSION 'SMOKING GUN'
> Tags: industrial, follow-up, environmental, liquid_oxygen
>
> Investigators probing why a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket burst into flames on its launch pad two months ago have found the smoking gun. They discovered that the rocket's liquid oxygen accidentally got so cold it became solid. That transformation, in turn, triggered a chemical reaction with a carbon composite container holding liquid helium that is located inside the oxygen tank.
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> The helium vessel's failure set off a series of explosions that destroyed the rocket and its payload, a $200 million communications satellite that it was due to carry into orbit two days later. The accident occurred as the rocket was being fueled for a routine, pre-launch engine test on Sept. 1.
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> SpaceX chief Elon Musk called the problem surprising and said it had never been encountered in the history of rocketry.
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> But it's not completely unexpected. A panel of highly respected aerospace experts told NASA eight months before the accident that the lack of a re-circulation pump aboard the Falcon rocket could be a safety problem.
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> CLEANAWAY OPERATIONS PTY LTD FACING $1.5 MILLION FINE OVER CHEMICAL BLAZE THAT INJURED WORKER
> Tags: Australia, industrial, follow-up, injury, solvent, waste
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> A WASTE company has been sent to the District Court after admitting responsibility for a 2013 chemical fire that injured an employee, and now faces a maximum $1.5 million fine.
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> On Tuesday, the Adelaide Magistrates Court ruled Cleanaway Operations Pty Ltd's offending was too serious to remain in its jurisdiction.
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> Magistrate Brett Dixon said he was satisfied the company should face a penalty greater than the maximum $150,000 he could impose, and ordered it face the District Court instead.
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> The company, which has pleaded guilty, was charged over a fire at a Wingfield chemical processing plant in July, 2013.
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> One of its workers was knocked to the ground, and sustained burns, when a flash-fire was sparked in a large distillation tank.
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> Federal workplace health and safety regulator Comcare alleged the company had been attempting to distil industrial solvent from chemical waste at the time of the fire.
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> On Tuesday, the company was ordered to face the District Court in January, when a date will be set for sentencing submissions.
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> CHEMICAL AT PONTELAND SCHOOL TO BE BLOWN UP BY BOMB SQUAD AFTER FEARS IT COULD BE UNSAFE
> Tags: United_Kingdom, laboratory, discovery, response, dinitrophenylhydrazine, time-sensitive
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> A chemical at a Northumberland school is being blown up by a bomb squad after fears it could be unsafe.
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> The alarm was raised at Ponteland Community High School in Northumberland after chemical 2,4-DNP was found in a potentially dangerous state at the site.
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> A team from Explosive Ordnance Disposal were called to the school on Callerton Lane on Monday after the chemical was reported to the police.
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> A controlled explosion of the chemical 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine, which is used by A-level chemistry students in experiments, was due to take place on Monday afternoon.
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> The concerns stem from the chemical drying out which increases its risk as an explosive hazard.
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