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Chemical Safety Headlines From Google
Friday, February 1, 2019 at 7:31:40 AM
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Table of Contents (8 articles)
'ALL-CLEAR' GIVEN AFTER CHLORINE SPILL AT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE
Tags: us_TN, education, release, injury, chlorine
5 PEOPLE UNDERGOING EVALUATION AFTER HAZMAT SCARE IN TUKWILA
Tags: us_WA, public, release, injury, unknown_chemical
6 HOSPITALIZED AFTER CARBON MONOXIDE LEAK IN MARQUETTE PARK ‰?? CBS CHICAGO
Tags: us_IL, public, release, injury, carbon_monoxide
HYDERABAD: MAN INJURED IN EXPLOSION IN JUBILEE HILLS
Tags: India, public, explosion, injury, waste
EPA‰??S CHEMICAL DECISION WORRIES REPUBLICANS
Tags: public, discovery, environmental, toxics
GASL LEAK REPORTED AT CHAPIN SC HARDEE‰??S RESTAURANT
Tags: us_SC, public, release, response, carbon_dioxide
HAZMAT SPILL CLOSES CALIF. EMERGENCY ROOM
Tags: us_CA, industrial, release, response, liquid_oxygen
AFTER DEADLY 2014 FOOD-TRUCK BLAST, U-HAUL, EX-MANAGER PLEAD GUILTY TO HAZMAT TRAINING VIOLATIONS
Tags: us_PA, transportation, follow-up, death, gas_cylinders, propane
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'ALL-CLEAR' GIVEN AFTER CHLORINE SPILL AT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE
https://www.wkrn.com/news/-all-clear-given-after-chlorine-spill-at-university-school-of-nashville/1742701259
Tags: us_TN, education, release, injury, chlorine
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) - The 'all-clear' has been given after a chlorine spill Thursday morning in the pool area at University School of Nashville.
According to the Nashville Fire Department, the Emergency Communications Center received a call from someone at the school at 9:13 a.m. stating there was a spill of chlorine.
The spill was large enough that it required students to be moved to a different part of the building.
A maintenance worker inhaled the chlorine and went to the emergency room at Vanderbilt University Medical Center to be checked out, fire officials said.
Hazmat and medic units responded to the school to determine the extent of the leak.
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5 PEOPLE UNDERGOING EVALUATION AFTER HAZMAT SCARE IN TUKWILA
https://komonews.com/news/local/5-people-undergoing-evaluation-after-hazmat-scare-in-tukwila
Tags: us_WA, public, release, injury, unknown_chemical
TUKWILA, Wash. - Five people are being evaluated after they were exposed to a possible hazardous chemical at a Tukwila business, emergency officials said.
A hazmat team and several ambulances responded to the scene, a business in the 1100 block of Industry Drive in Tukwila, at about 1:20 p.m. after receiving a report of two people being exposed to a possible harmful chemical.
Reports said the two were complaining of irritation and breathing issues, said Chief Jay Wittwer of the Tukwila Fire Department.
The hazmat team quickly determined that a product inside the business was causing the victims' symptoms.
The two affected victims were removed and evaluated. Three firefighters on the hazmat team also were being evaluated after they were exposed.
Wittwer said it still isn't clear which product is causing the problem.
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6 HOSPITALIZED AFTER CARBON MONOXIDE LEAK IN MARQUETTE PARK ‰?? CBS CHICAGO
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/01/31/carbon-monoxide-leak-marquette-park-64th-homan/
Tags: us_IL, public, release, injury, carbon_monoxide
CHICAGO (CBS) ‰?? Six people went to the hospital Thursday morning, after firefighters discovered a carbon monoxide leak at a home in the Marquette Park neighborhood.
Paramedics responded to a call for a sick person at a home near 64th and Homan around 1:15 a.m. When they arrived, sensors they carry with them alerted the paramedic to high levels of carbon monoxide in the home.
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HYDERABAD: MAN INJURED IN EXPLOSION IN JUBILEE HILLS
https://telanganatoday.com/hyderabad-man-injured-in-explosion-in-jubilee-hills
Tags: India, public, explosion, injury, waste
Hyderabad: A 55-year-old man sustained injuries following an ‰??explosion‰?? at Venkatgiri in Jubilee Hills on Tuesday evening.
The man, identified as Manika Rao, a daily wager, was emptying some chemicals from small tin containers when there was a sudden explosion near a scrap shop, eye-witnesses told police.
The man sustained injuries on his hand and face and collapsed. The Jubilee Hills police rushed to the spot and shifted him to Gandhi Hospital in a ‰??108‰?? ambulance.
The CLUES team examined the spot and the tin containers were seized from the place for examination. Preliminary inquiries revealed that some chemical were stored in the containers and the same could have exploded due to pressure.
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EPA‰??S CHEMICAL DECISION WORRIES REPUBLICANS
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/29/epa-chemical-decision-republicans-1129824
Tags: public, discovery, environmental, toxics
congressional Republicans voiced concerns Tuesday about the prospect that EPA will not set drinking water limits for two toxic chemicals ‰?? an issue that raises new hurdles for acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler‰??s bid to permanently lead the agency.
POLITICO reported Monday that Wheeler has signed off on a still-unpublished decision not to regulate the chemicals under the Safe Drinking Water Act. The chemicals, known as PFOA and PFOS, are linked to dangerous health effects, including kidney and testicular cancer, and have been found in millions of Americans‰?? drinking water after being used for decades in products such as Teflon and military firefighting foam.
‰??I‰??m concerned about it,‰?? said Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), whose state has had two major contamination cases tied to the chemicals. ‰??I‰??m concerned about what he thinks the reasoning is for how we‰??re going to get to a safer water standard if that‰??s not the direction they go. I think I need a fuller explanation from him.‰??
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GASL LEAK REPORTED AT CHAPIN SC HARDEE‰??S RESTAURANT
https://www.thestate.com/news/local/article225225080.html
Tags: us_SC, public, release, response, carbon_dioxide
LEXINGTON COUNTY, SC
A carbon dioxide leak in a drink machine forced the evacuation of a Chapin restaurant Tuesday morning.
Lexington County Fire Service and hazmat crews responded to the Hardee‰??s on the 1400 block of Chapin Road in Chapin for what turned out to be a carbon dioxide leak in the drink machine, according to county spokesman Harrison Cahill.
Low oxygen levels in the restaurant resulted from the leak, and the business has been evacuated and closed while crews ventilate and wait for repair personnel, Cahill said. No injuries have been reported.
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HAZMAT SPILL CLOSES CALIF. EMERGENCY ROOM
https://www.ems1.com/hazmat/articles/393315048-Hazmat-spill-closes-Calif-emergency-room/
Tags: us_CA, industrial, release, response, liquid_oxygen
LOS ANGELES ‰?? A fire department responded to a hospital hazmat spill that forced the closure of the emergency room.
CBS Los Angeles reported that an LAFD hazmat crew responded to the Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital after a damaged pipe caused a liquid oxygen spill.
Fire department officials said a pipe from a 2,000-gallon tank was sheared and most of the oxygen inside spilled out.
According to ABC7, the spill created a shoulder-high vapor cloud in the parking lot, causing ambulance tires and portions of walls and streets to freeze slightly.
Hospital officials said no one was harmed in the incident, but some patients were transferred by ambulance to another hospital. The hospital‰??s ambulance bay was also impacted by the spill.
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AFTER DEADLY 2014 FOOD-TRUCK BLAST, U-HAUL, EX-MANAGER PLEAD GUILTY TO HAZMAT TRAINING VIOLATIONS
http://www.philly.com/news/u-haul-feltonville-food-truck-explosion-guilty-plea-hearing-20190129.html
Tags: us_PA, transportation, follow-up, death, gas_cylinders, propane
U-Haul Co. of Pennsylvania and the former general manager of its Feltonville operation pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to two counts each of violating hazardous-materials training regulations in a case that stemmed from a 2014 Feltonville food-truck explosion that killed a mother and daughter.
The company and Miguel Rivera, who was the general manager at U-Haul‰??s location at Hunting Park Avenue and Front Street, did not admit in their pleas to filling the propane tank attached to the La Parrillada Chapina food truck, which ruptured on July 1, 2014, killing Olga Galdamez, 42, and her daughter Jaylin Galdamez, 17, and injuring 11 others.
Instead, they pleaded guilty to two counts related to using at least two untrained workers to fill propane cylinders at the Hunting Park Avenue facility in June and July 2014.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Abrams told U.S. District Judge Robert Kelly that plea agreements called for U-Haul to pay a $1 million fine, the maximum amount for the two counts, and to be on probation for two years, and for Rivera to pay a $2,000 fine.
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