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Monday, December 5, 2016 at 7:51:59 AM
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Table of Contents (7 articles)
TRAIN CARS CARRYING FLAMMABLE CHEMICAL DERAIL IN EAST TOLEDO
Tags: us_OH, transportation, discovery, response, toluene
LIKE WORKING IN A REFINERY: FRACKING‰??S NEW CHEMICAL HAZARDS FOR WORKERS
Tags: us_TX, industrial, discovery, environmental, dust
FOAM FILLS CENTER CITY STREET AFTER PECO SUBSTATION EXPLOSION
Tags: us_PA, public, release, response, other_chemical
AUSTRALIAN STUDENTS RECREATE MARTIN SHKRELI PRICE-HIKE DRUG IN SCHOOL LAB
Tags: Australia, laboratory, discovery, environmental, drugs, pharmaceutical
TWO DEAD IN EXPLOSIVES FACTORY BLAST NEAR TRICHY (LEAD)
Tags: India, industrial, explosion, death, explosives
WASTEWATER LEAKS AT PLANT DESTROYING CHEMICAL WEAPONS
Tags: us_CO, industrial, release, environmental, mustard_gas, waste
THREE EMPLOYEES UNDER OBSERVATION AFTER DOW CHLORINE LEAK RELEAS
Tags: us_LA, industrial, release, response, chlorine
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TRAIN CARS CARRYING FLAMMABLE CHEMICAL DERAIL IN EAST TOLEDO
Tags: us_OH, transportation, discovery, response, toluene
COMMENTS
Part of a 187-car CSX train derailed early today near York Street and North Wheeling Street in East Toledo.
Two cars carrying toluene, a highly-flammable chemical, overturned. However, a Toledo fire dispatcher said neither car is leaking any fluid.
Toledo fire Lt. Matthew Hertzfeld said one of the cars caused damage to a tower supporting high tension power lines, which have dropped slightly. Toledo Fire and Toledo Edison are on scene.
Two homes in the area were evacuated as a precaution.
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LIKE WORKING IN A REFINERY: FRACKING‰??S NEW CHEMICAL HAZARDS FOR WORKERS
Tags: us_TX, industrial, discovery, environmental, dust
Federal workplace watchdogs are warning that the boom in ‰??fracking‰?? is now exposing oilfield workers to hazards they can inhale. It‰??s an additonal risk for roughnecks and service company crews working in an industry that already has a much-higher-than average injury rate.
A ‰??Hazard Alert‰?? from government agencies OSHA and NIOSH has the industry scrambling for fixes.
‰??We‰??re working really hard to help engineer-out the hazard and protect these workers,‰?? Rick Ingram told StateImpact. Ingram works for oil giant BP, coordinating rig safety programs with government regulators.
‰??We‰??re getting the word out any way we can about this potential hazard. This hazard alert has really helped us do that, it‰??s helping bring attention to it,‰?? said Ingram.
Dangerous Dust
Rail cars bring tons of sand to Gonzales County
The Hazard Alert was for one threat in particular: silica, the chemical component in sand. Each well that‰??s ‰??fracked‰?? uses tons of sand that‰??s shot down the hole at high pressure, fracturing the shale rock formations thousands of feet underground. The sand particles act as tiny wedges, holding the rocks open, allowing natural gas and oil to escape.
So much sand is now being used in Gonzales County, 75 miles east of San Antonio‰??the heart of the mineral-rich Eagle Ford Shale‰??that a freight train company has built a new rail yard. On the site are enormous silos for sand operated by oilfield service companies including Halliburton. Trucks haul the sand to drill sites in Gonzales and neighboring counties. But as it‰??s off-loaded from those trucks, federal workplace investigators say the sand can create dangerous amounts of dust.
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FOAM FILLS CENTER CITY STREET AFTER PECO SUBSTATION EXPLOSION
Tags: us_PA, public, release, response, other_chemical
CENTER CITY (WPVI) -- Firefighters responded to a hazmat situation in Center City Philadelphia, where a massive amount of foam covered an entire city block after it leaked from a PECO substation.
Several calls were made to police after 1 p.m. Saturday, reporting explosions inside a building around the 400 block of South Juniper Street.
Crews arrived to the find the fire suppression system had released a large amount of foam.
They say there was a problem at the substation, which caused a power outage, and then the foam began appearing.
"There was a fire alarm going on and I didn't really think anything of it, and then I was just chillin' in my bed and I heard this huge explosion," said Mark Deluca, witness.
"Then all of a sudden what looked like giant soap bubbles started floating down in front of our house," said Karen Saillant, witness.
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AUSTRALIAN STUDENTS RECREATE MARTIN SHKRELI PRICE-HIKE DRUG IN SCHOOL LAB
Tags: Australia, laboratory, discovery, environmental, drugs, pharmaceutical
A group of Australian high school students have managed to recreate a life-saving drug that rose from US$13.50 to US$750 a tablet overnight after an unscrupulous price-hike by former hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli.
The Sydney Grammar students reproduced the drug, Daraprim, used to treat a rare but deadly parasitic infection, in their high school laboratory with support from the University of Sydney and global members of the Open Source Malaria consortium.
Dr Alice Williamson, a postdoctoral teaching fellow with the university‰??s school of chemistry, said she could not stop dwelling on the story of Shkreli, who acquired Daraprim last year through his company, Turing Pharmaceuticals, and almost immediately and exorbitantly hiked the price. The drug is used to treat malaria and to prevent toxoplasmosis infection in people with HIV.
The move made him a public villain, a label he embraced as he also became known as ‰??Pharma Bro‰??.
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TWO DEAD IN EXPLOSIVES FACTORY BLAST NEAR TRICHY (LEAD)
Tags: India, industrial, explosion, death, explosives
Two persons died and several others were injured in a blast in an explosives factory near Tamil Nadu's Tiruchirappalli, said police.
The blast occurred at Vetrivel Explosives factory near Tiruchirappalli, around 350 km from here.
"The ground and first floor had collapsed and the debris have to be removed," G. Sathhyanarayanan, Deputy Director (In-Charge) of Fire and Rescue Services (Central Region), Tamil Nadu told IANS.
He said the total number of casualties is not yet known as it will be difficult to ascertain in a blast like this.
According to a factory official, around 15 persons were working inside at the time of the accident.
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WASTEWATER LEAKS AT PLANT DESTROYING CHEMICAL WEAPONS
Tags: us_CO, industrial, release, environmental, mustard_gas, waste
PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) ‰?? About 450 gallons of hazardous wastewater leaked from a tank at a Colorado plant where chemical weapons are being destroyed, the Army said Friday.
There was no threat to workers or nearby communities from the Nov. 20 spill at the Pueblo Chemical Depot, officials said. The wastewater was confined to a containment area and cleaned up, site project manager Gregory Mohrman said in a written statement.
The wastewater was primarily salty water called hydrolysate, produced when mustard agent is neutralized with hot water and a caustic chemical, said Sandy Romero, a spokeswoman for Bechtel Corp., the lead contractor on the project.
The waste contained no mustard agent, she said.
The wastewater leaked when seals on a tank failed, Mohrman said. The plant shut down while the cause of the failure is investigated, and no startup date has been set.
The highly automated, $4.5 billion plant is destroying about 780,000 shells filled with 2,600 tons of mustard agent under an international treaty. The plant began operating this year and is expected to finish in 2020.
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THREE EMPLOYEES UNDER OBSERVATION AFTER DOW CHLORINE LEAK RELEAS
Tags: us_LA, industrial, release, response, chlorine
PLAQUEMINE, LA (WAFB) -
A small chlorine leak on the property of DOW Chemical in Plaquemine forced a shelter-in-place for certain residents of Iberville Parish.
The leak was stopped just before 6 p.m. Friday, Iberville Parish Sheriff Brett Stassi reported. Around 7 p.m., Sheriff Stassi confirmed the shelter-in-place has been lifted.
Around 7:15 p.m., Sheriff Stassi confirmed that the situation at the site has been contained and there is no detectable smell of chlorine.
DOW Chemical released the following statement around 8 p.m.:
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