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Table of Contents (4 articles)
BOSTON FIREFIGHTERS STOP LEVEL 3 HAZMAT LEAK AT DEER ISLAND
Tags: us_MA, industrial, release, response, hydrogen_peroxide
16 WORKERS INJURED IN MOHALI FACTORY BLAST
Tags: India, industrial, explosion, injury, pharmaceutical
$2.65 MILLION IN RESTITUTION ORDERED FOR SANTA CLARA WASTE WATER EXPLOSION
Tags: us_CA, industrial, follow-up, environmental, waste
WELL WATER USERS WARNED AFTER AIR FORCE ACADEMY FINDS TOXIC LEVEL OF FIREFIGHTING CHEMICAL
Tags: us_CO, public, discovery, environmental, other_chemical
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BOSTON FIREFIGHTERS STOP LEVEL 3 HAZMAT LEAK AT DEER ISLAND ‰?? BOSTON NEWS, WEATHER, SPORTS
https://whdh.com/news/boston-firefighters-stop-level-3-hazmat-leak-at-deer-island/
Tags: us_MA, industrial, release, response, hydrogen_peroxide
BOSTON (WHDH) -
Boston firefighters contained a Level 3 hazmat situation at Deer Island Saturday after a gallon of hydrogen peroxide leaked in a building, officials said.
Firefighters responded to Deer Island at 7:20 p.m. for reports of one gallon of hydrogen peroxide leaking, officials said. The leak was classified as Level 3, which is the most dangerous hazmat situation.
Firefighters in hazmat suits shut down the leaking valve, vented the building and monitored the air quality, according to fire officials.
No one was hurt during the leak.
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16 WORKERS INJURED IN MOHALI FACTORY BLAST
https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/16-workers-injured-in-mohali-factory-blast/story-egl7RXTJ2IeZxaQb1jqfPP.html
Tags: India, industrial, explosion, injury, pharmaceutical
Sixteen workers were injured ‰?? five of them critically ‰?? in a blast in a chemical reactor of a pharmaceutical company at Saidpura village in Dera Bassi subdivision of Punjab‰??s Mohali district on Saturday.
The firm, Nectar Lifesciences, is engaged in the production of generic drug products. The blast took place on the first floor of the plant that manufactures salts for multivitamin tablets.
The intensity of the blast was such that a portion of the two-storey building collapsed. The factory management and the district administration are looking into its cause.
Around 28 employees were working in the plant when the mishap took place around 3:30pm.
‰??We heard a loud sound and saw the building collapsing amid shrieks. Soon the entire premises was filled with debris,‰?? said Sukhwinder Singh, a tea vendor who runs his kiosk there.
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$2.65 MILLION IN RESTITUTION ORDERED FOR SANTA CLARA WASTE WATER EXPLOSION
https://www.vcstar.com/story/money/business/2019/08/23/2-65-million-restitution-ordered-santa-clara-waste-water-explosion/2099955001/
Tags: us_CA, industrial, follow-up, environmental, waste
Santa Clara Waste Water and its parent company were sentenced Friday to pay nearly $2.65 million in outstanding restitution to victims affected by a 2014 explosion and 2015 nondisclosure of hazardous chemicals.
The outstanding balance owed does not include the $950,000 in restitution already collected and distributed to victims to date, bringing the total of court-ordered restitution to nearly 3.6 million.
The corporations‰?? restitution is part of an agreement with prosecutors that they filed in June.
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WELL WATER USERS WARNED AFTER AIR FORCE ACADEMY FINDS TOXIC LEVEL OF FIREFIGHTING CHEMICAL
https://gazette.com/military/well-water-users-warned-after-air-force-academy-finds-toxic/article_1b63e722-c5ee-11e9-8ff2-f321d1faefd4.html
Tags: us_CO, public, discovery, environmental, other_chemical
Air Force Academy firefighters training a quarter century ago released a torrent of toxic perfluorinated chemicals that seeped into groundwater and flowed into Monument Creek, a 15,000-page Air Force report released Friday shows.
A series of tests by Air Force researchers showed groundwater had 1,000 times the level of perfluorinated compounds considered safe by state and federal regulators. Records on the training that used firefighting foam loaded with the chemicals are spotty to nonexistent at the academy, the report said, but hazy recollections of the training, which ran from the late 1980s to the early 1990s at the pit, less than 100 yards from the creek, led to the recent tests.
Colorado‰??s health department on Friday recommended that anyone who uses groundwater south of the academy who hasn‰??t had their well tested should switch to bottled water. The same holds true for anyone whose wells exceed the EPA‰??s health advisory of 70 parts per trillion after testing.
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