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Subject: [DCHAS-L] Chemical Safety headlines from Google (8 articles)
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 07:12:52 -0500
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Chemical Safety Headlines From Google
Wednesday, November 15, 2017 at 7:12:40 AM
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Table of Contents (8 articles)
REST STOP ON I-26 EVACUATED AFTER CEDAR OIL SPILL; HAZMAT TEAM R
Tags: us_NC, transportation, release, response, oils
1,000 EMPLOYEES EVACUATED AFTER ACID SPILL, FIRE IN NORTHWEST AUSTIN
Tags: us_TX, industrial, fire, response, acids
DOCUMENTS SHOW UNDISCOSED EPA HEALTH CONCERNS ON FRACKING CHEMICALS
Tags: us_PA, public, discovery, environmental, methane, natural_gas
UNITY FIRE DEPARTMENT RESPONDS TO HAZARDOUS SITUATION
Tags: us_ME, industrial, release, response, gas_cylinders
SUSPECTED OVERDOSE PROMPTS HAZMAT RESPONSE IN HARTFORD
Tags: us_CT, public, release, death, drugs
CHEMICALS IN SORRENTO VALLEY BUSINESS FIRE CREATE DANGEROUS SITUATION FOR FIREFIGHTERS
Tags: us_CA, industrial, fire, response, unknown_chemical
2 HURT AS TANKER WITH FLAMMABLE CHEMICAL CATCHES FIRE
Tags: India, transportation, fire, injury, flammables
CHEMOURS FACES SANCTIONS FROM NORTH CAROLINA GOVERNMENT
Tags: us_NC, public, discovery, environmental, other_chemical
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REST STOP ON I-26 EVACUATED AFTER CEDAR OIL SPILL; HAZMAT TEAM R
Tags: us_NC, transportation, release, response, oils
FOX Carolina) -
Henderson County Communications said a rest stop on Interstate 26 was evacuated Tuesday after the leak of an initially unidentified liquid.
According to officials, the rest area in Fletcher was closed due to an 18-wheeler leaking a chemical around 2:10 p.m.
The Fletcher Fire Department, fire marshal and a Haywood County Hazmat team were called to the scene.
Officials said it was determined that cedar wood oil, a non-hazardous material, was leaking from 55 gallon drums housed in the truck. Approximately 10 gallons of the oil spilled.
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1,000 EMPLOYEES EVACUATED AFTER ACID SPILL, FIRE IN NORTHWEST AUSTIN
Tags: us_TX, industrial, fire, response, acids
AUSTIN (KXAN) ‰?? A hazmat situation initially described as an isolated, small chemical spill by the Austin Fire Department led to the evacuation of around 1,000 people at a company in northwest Austin.
Firefighters were called to 3900 W. Howard Ln., just west of MoPac Expressway, at 2:55 p.m. Tuesday. Authorities determined a 30-gallon container of acid was leaking and spilled inside a containment room. AFD says they worked with the company‰??s response team to mitigate the spill.
The main building of ICU Medical was evacuated after a small fire started in a chemical storage shed, the fire department said. The fire was out as of around 4:20 p.m., firefighters said.
No injuries were reported and the employees were cleared to go back into the building around 6 p.m. A private contractor is currently in the process of cleaning the spill.
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DOCUMENTS SHOW UNDISCOSED EPA HEALTH CONCERNS ON FRACKING CHEMICALS
Tags: us_PA, public, discovery, environmental, methane, natural_gas
We're about a decade into an oil and gas revolution known shorthand as fracking. It relies on shooting high-pressure water mixed with chemicals down into layers of rock to crack the stone and release oil and gas. Pretty much since the fracking boom began, people who live near these wells have worried about chemicals getting into their water and making them sick.
A new set of documents, obtained from the Environmental Protection Agency by the Partnership for Policy Integrity and shared with Marketplace, shows that the agency has previously undisclosed health concerns that some fracking chemicals might cause things like liver poisoning and tumors.
Bryan Latkanich makes his home in the rural hills of Pennsylvania, smack in the middle of the largest natural gas region of the country known as the Marcellus Shale.
Latkanich sold Chevron the right to drill on his property seven years ago. But he thinks fracking chemicals polluted his water well and made his family sick.
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UNITY FIRE DEPARTMENT RESPONDS TO HAZARDOUS SITUATION
Tags: us_ME, industrial, release, response, gas_cylinders
UNITY, Maine (WABI) Unity fire department responded to a hazardous materials situation at Mac's True Value Hardware.
The call came it around 11:00 Monday morning that a few cylinders of argon had tipped over and one had started leaking inside the warehouse.
The cylinders were sitting next to oxygen and other chemical tanks which could cause a major reaction.
Crews responded quickly.
Captain Blaine Parsons from Unity Fire Department says, "We sent a crew in to assess the situation, find the leaking bottle and the best thing that could happen is for it to be brought outside and dissipate into the air. So, we removed the hazard out of the building and it is fully discharged so, everyone is clear."
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SUSPECTED OVERDOSE PROMPTS HAZMAT RESPONSE IN HARTFORD
Tags: us_CT, public, release, death, drugs
A person was been found dead of a suspected drug overdose in Hartford Sunday morning, prompting a hazmat response.
Hartford fire officials said the Drug Enforcement Administration, police, fire and other agencies all responded to the scene at 127-129 Freeman Street.
Fire officials said they responded to a medical call at the address around 3:30 a.m. A person was found dead inside the home.
Authorities initially said the victim may have died from exposure to the drug, but police later clarified that they believe the incident is a suspected overdose.
Around 7:30 a.m. police determined the situation required a hazmat response. The DEA, Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, Hartford police and Hartford fire crews all responded.
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CHEMICALS IN SORRENTO VALLEY BUSINESS FIRE CREATE DANGEROUS SITUATION FOR FIREFIGHTERS
Tags: us_CA, industrial, fire, response, unknown_chemical
San Diego Fire-Rescue crews battled a fire Saturday at a Sorrento Valley business with more than a dozen different hazardous materials on the property.
"This was a very dangerous call for responding crews," SDFD Battalion Chief David Gerboth said. "There were very dangerous chemicals that created very dangerous reactions when they reacted with the water."
Firefighters were called to the business park on Ferris Square, north of Carroll Road and west of Camino Santa Fe, at 9:10 p.m.
The fire was caused by a fuse in the building's fire safety system, Gerboth said.
The water from the building's sprinklers caused reactions with approximately 17 chemicals used at the business, officials said.
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2 HURT AS TANKER WITH FLAMMABLE CHEMICAL CATCHES FIRE
Tags: India, transportation, fire, injury, flammables
Motorists on National Highway 4 on the outskirts of Nelamangala had a narrow escape when a tanker, laden with flammable and volatile isopropyl alcohol, collided with an electricity pole while trying to avoid a bus, rolled into a ditch, and caught fire.
In what the police describe as a miracle the fire was put out before it engulfed the entire tanker.
The driver and the assistant, who were trapped in the cabin and later rescued by the traffic police, sustained minor injuries.
Isopropyl alcohol is a common compound used mainly in agriculture and medicine. The tanker was ferrying it from Tamil Nadu to Mumbai via Bengaluru.
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CHEMOURS FACES SANCTIONS FROM NORTH CAROLINA GOVERNMENT
Tags: us_NC, public, discovery, environmental, other_chemical
North Carolina regulators will sanction The Chemours Co. for the release of an unregulated chemical into the Cape Fear River ‰?? the latest in a barrage of legal assaults facing the Delaware company in the Tar Heel State.
Officials in September had told Chemours to keep the chemical GenX from flowing into the river from outfall pipes at its Teflon production plant in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Regulators learned on Nov. 1 that discharges of GenX had surged following an October spill of a precursor chemical, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality announced last week.
The state has not determined a sanction yet, but it "could be anything from a violation notice or it could be more than that," said Jamie Kritzer, spokesman for the environmental department.
"We're investigating... to see any and all violations of their permits as well as any other violations that they may have committed in not disclosing this Oct. 6 spill," he said.
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