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Subject: [DCHAS-L] Chemical Safety headlines from Google (8 articles)
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 07:57:54 -0400
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Chemical Safety Headlines From Google
Friday, July 28, 2017 at 7:57:43 AM
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Table of Contents (8 articles)
NDSU STILL WORKING TO RESOLVE FIRE SAFETY VIOLATIONS
Tags: us_ND, laboratory, follow-up, response, other_chemical
7 HOSPITALIZED AFTER HAZMAT SITUATION IN SW MIAMI-DADE ‰?? WSVN 7NEWS
Tags: us_FL, public, release, injury, carbon_monoxide
ANTIOCH CHEMICAL SPILL UNDER INVESTIGATION AS CLEANUP CONTINUES
Tags: us_IL, industrial, release, response, ferric_chloride
HAZMAT TEAM RESPONDS TO CHEMICAL SPILL IN SANTA CRUZ
Tags: us_CA, public, release, response, hydrochloric_acid
ARRESTS FOLLOW METH LAB EXPLOSION
Tags: us_VA, public, explosion, injury, clandestine_lab
JAPAN‰??S MITSUI CHEMICALS SHUTS RESIN UNIT AFTER FIRE INJURES FOUR WORKERS, EAST ASIA NEWS & TOP STORIES
Tags: Japan, industrial, explosion, injury, resin, toner
EPA WON'T BAN CHLORPYRIFOS, A NEUROTOXIN THAT CAUSES BRAIN DAMAGE
Tags: public, discovery, environmental, pesticides
100,000 PAGES OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY SECRETS GATHERED DUST IN AN OREGON BARN FOR DECADES ‰?? UNTIL NOW
Tags: us_OR, public, discovery, environmental, pesticides
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NDSU STILL WORKING TO RESOLVE FIRE SAFETY VIOLATIONS
Tags: us_ND, laboratory, follow-up, response, other_chemical
FARGO‰??North Dakota State University still is working to come into full compliance with fire safety codes following city inspections that found improper storage of hazardous chemicals in two laboratory buildings.
University officials were notified of fire safety violations in early June, when Fire Marshal Ryan Erickson wrote a letter informing NDSU administrators that they had to take immediate action to come into compliance.
In a follow-up inspection July 13, a fire inspector noted some violations have been addressed, but still found fire safety risks in Dunbar and Ladd halls, which house chemistry and biochemistry labs.
"Several of the items in the reports were corrected," Erickson said. "There were a few items that they're working to continue to have progress on."
In Dunbar Hall, the fire inspector still found hazardous chemicals were being improperly stored in a building without fire suppression sprinklers.
But the inspector found that many violations had been corrected, including a blocked fire extinguisher, the use of extension cords, damaged electrical cords, "daisy-chained" power strips and storage and labeling of chemicals.
"It is apparent that effort is being directed toward fire safety and gaining code compliance in these areas," Jamie Garvey, the fire inspector, wrote in his report.
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7 HOSPITALIZED AFTER HAZMAT SITUATION IN SW MIAMI-DADE ‰?? WSVN 7NEWS
Tags: us_FL, public, release, injury, carbon_monoxide
SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - Rescue crews took seven people to the hospital, including first responders, after they breathed in carbon monoxide in Southwest Miami-Dade, Thursday morning.
Miami-Dade Police and Fire Rescue were called to a home located on the 22700 block of Southwest 103rd Court, at around 4:55 a.m., after a family of three came into contact with the toxic fumes.
Upon their arrival, first responders also started to become ill. ‰??They were just overcome with a little bit of shortness of breath and weakness,‰?? said Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Lt. Felipe Lay.
According to officials, three firefighters, an officer, two adults and a teenager were transported to Jackson South Community Hospital. 7News cameras captured the ambulances as they arrived at the hospital, one after the other.
Two dogs were also pulled out from the home and checked out at the scene.
All victims are expected to be OK.
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ANTIOCH CHEMICAL SPILL UNDER INVESTIGATION AS CLEANUP CONTINUES
Tags: us_IL, industrial, release, response, ferric_chloride
Clean up was underway and the site and water sources were being monitored Thursday as an investigation continued into the type, cause and extent of a reported chemical leak at a vacant industrial building on Anita Avenue in Antioch.
The orange-red liquid was being tested but had not been identified, according to Antioch Fire Chief Jon Cokefair. There have been no injuries or danger to the public, he added.
"We continue to investigate how this spill happened and the extent," Cokefair said. He added the biggest concern was to ensure there was no runoff into Sequoit Creek or the village's sanitary system.
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency spokeswoman Kim Biggs said the agency responded Tuesday with the Antioch fire, police and public works departments and the U.S. EPA. The chemical was suspected to be ferric chloride but that has not been confirmed by lab tests, Biggs said.
One use of ferric chloride is as an etching agent in photoengraving, according to Merriam-webster.com. Biggs said it is used in plating processes. "Our primary concern is containing the spill and ensuring the impacted area is remediated," she said.
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HAZMAT TEAM RESPONDS TO CHEMICAL SPILL IN SANTA CRUZ
Tags: us_CA, public, release, response, hydrochloric_acid
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. ‰??
A hazmat team responded to a chemical spill on private property in Santa Cruz Thursday morning.
The spill was reported at around 7:30 a.m. at 206 Laurel Street. The Santa Cruz Fire Department was called to the scene after a person noticed a yellow liquid near a dumpster behind a shopping area, said Daniel Kline, Santa Cruz Fire Department battalion chief.
According to the incident report, businesses and the residents in the area were advised to shelter in place and keep their doors and windows closed because the substance was producing a vapor. The fire department then called in a hazmat team.
The liquid turned out to be about a gallon of hydrochloric acid. A hazmat team used sodium bicarbonate to neutralize the acid.
Nobody was evacuated due to the spill, and the property owner assisted with the cleanup.
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ARRESTS FOLLOW METH LAB EXPLOSION
Tags: us_VA, public, explosion, injury, clandestine_lab
ROCK STAND--On Tuesday night, June 18, Randolph County Narcotics Unit agent Larry Clark received a phone call that William Scott Slaughter was in the Wedowee Hospital emergency room with burns over 70 to 80 percent of his body and that the helicopter was en-route to fly him to University Hospital in Birmingham. He was also told Jessica Jones drove Slaughter to the ER, walked him in and then left.
Clark contacted Maj. Greg Dendinger of Randolph County Sheriff's Office. Dendinger questioned Slaughter, who stated he was pouring out a bottle in the shed at his brother's house when he caught on fire.
Dendinger spoke with several of the nurses, and they positively identified Jones as the one who brought Slaughter in. Dendinger contacted deputy Corey Smith and asked Smith to meet him at 7324 U.S. Hwy. 431, south of Rock Stand, to check the scene and make sure everything was OK.
Clark spoke with homeowner Wesley Slaughter, who gave them permission to do whatever they needed to do. Wesley said Scott and Jones had been in and out of there all day, but he wasn't sure if she was there when the fire started.
Clark looked inside the shed where the explosion happened and knew it was caused by a shake-and-bake meth lab. There was a strong chemical smell inside the shed. Clark went outside where a fire had been built that appeared to be where evidence was being destroyed. Clark saw in the fire a bottle of liquid drain opener, a bottle of rosonol lighter fluid, tubing, hcl generator and a punched starter fluid can but was unable to retrieve it due to the fire. Also at the fire, Clark found several pseudoephedrine blister packs, two partially burnt shake-and-bake labs and cut-open lithium batteries.
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JAPAN‰??S MITSUI CHEMICALS SHUTS RESIN UNIT AFTER FIRE INJURES FOUR WORKERS, EAST ASIA NEWS & TOP STORIES
Tags: Japan, industrial, explosion, injury, resin, toner
TOKYO (REUTERS) ‰?? Japan‰??s Mitsui Chemicals Inc said it shut the toner binder resin manufacturing unit at its Mobara branch factory in Chiba on Thursday (July 27) after a fire that injured four workers.
A dangerous substance exploded and caught fire in a warehouse at the plant, located east of Tokyo, shortly after 11am (10am Singapore time), the local fire department said.
Mitsui Chemicals said the fire occurred in a facility that makes toner binder resin and added that it was not clear what caused the fire.
Four workers were burned but the injuries were not life threatening, a Mitsui Chemicals spokesman said, adding there was no impact to the operations of other product units at the factory.
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EPA WON'T BAN CHLORPYRIFOS, A NEUROTOXIN THAT CAUSES BRAIN DAMAGE
Tags: public, discovery, environmental, pesticides
An attempt to ban a pesticide known to cause brain damage in children was denied by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), but a group of Democratic senators hope to change with a new bill.
The bill, introduced by New Mexico Senator Tom Udall, seeks to outlaw chlorpyrifos, an agricultural insecticide used on strawberries, apples and broccoli, among other fruits and vegetables. The chemical is classified as a neurotoxin by the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and listed in the same chemical family as sarin nerve gas, but the EPA denied a petition to ban it on March 29. On July 18, Federal appeals court rejected a petition by environmental groups to force the agency into a ban.
The Protect Children, Farmers and Farmworkers From Nerve Agent Pesticides Act of 2017 was co-sponsored by senators Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Cory Booker of New Jersey, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Ben Cardin of Maryland, Kamala Harris of California, Richard Durbin of Illinois and Ed Markey of Massachusetts.
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100,000 PAGES OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY SECRETS GATHERED DUST IN AN OREGON BARN FOR DECADES ‰?? UNTIL NOW
Tags: us_OR, public, discovery, environmental, pesticides
FOR DECADES, SOME of the dirtiest, darkest secrets of the chemical industry have been kept in Carol Van Strum‰??s barn. Creaky, damp, and prowled by the occasional black bear, the listing, 80-year-old structure in rural Oregon housed more than 100,000 pages of documents obtained through legal discovery in lawsuits against Dow, Monsanto, the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Forest Service, the Air Force, and pulp and paper companies, among others.
As of today, those documents and others that have been collected by environmental activists will be publicly available through a project called the Poison Papers. Together, the library contains more than 200,000 pages of information and ‰??lays out a 40-year history of deceit and collusion involving the chemical industry and the regulatory agencies that were supposed to be protecting human health and the environment,‰?? said Peter von Stackelberg, a journalist who along with the Center for Media and Democracy and the Bioscience Resource Project helped put the collection online.
Van Strum didn‰??t set out to be the repository for the people‰??s pushback against the chemical industry. She moved to a house in the Siuslaw National Forest in 1974 to live a simple life. But soon after she arrived, she realized the Forest Service was spraying her area with an herbicide called 2,4,5-T ‰?? on one occasion, directly dousing her four children with it as they fished by the river.
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