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Chemical Safety Headlines From Google
Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 8:02:26 AM
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Table of Contents (10 articles)
PARMA RESIDENT INJURED DURING HAZMAT INCIDENT
Tags: us_oh, public, fire, injury, unknown_chemical
HAZMAT INCIDENT CLOSES RECYCLING FACILITY IN LEXINGTON
Tags: us_ky, industrial, discovery, response, unknown_chemical
MAJOR FIRE BREAKS OUT AT CHEMICAL FACTORY IN TARAPUR, NO CASUALTY REPORTED
Tags: india, industrial, fire, response, unknown_chemical
MAN TREATED IN HOSPITAL FOLLOWING INCIDENT AT SHANNON CHEMICAL MANUFACTURING COMPANY
Tags: ireland, laboratory, release, injury, unknown_chemical
‰??THEY‰??VE BEEN GASSING YOU‰??: PRISON WANTED TO SAVE ENERGY; INSTEAD GUARDS GOT SICK
Tags: us_VT, industrial, follow-up, injury, ozone
SLEEP ON A MEMORY FOAM MATTRESS? A ROUND ROCK FAMILY HAS A WARNING
Tags: us_TX, public, release, injury, fiberglass
UPDATE: INCIDENT CONTAINED AFTER FIRE RELEASES CHLORINE GAS AT WRR ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES
Tags: us_WI, public, fire, response, chlorine, wastes
CHEMICAL EXPOSURE AT TWU SENDS ONE TO HOSPITAL
Tags: us_TX, education, release, injury, other_chemical
FEDS TO PROBE FATAL CHESAPEAKE ENERGY OIL WELL ACCIDENT
Tags: us_TX, industrial, follow-up, death, petroleum
SUSPICIOUS SMELL TRIGGERS HAZMAT RESPONSE IN SOUTH BURLINGTON
Tags: us_VT, laboratory, discovery, response, ammonia, drugs, gasoline
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PARMA RESIDENT INJURED DURING HAZMAT INCIDENT
https://www.cleveland19.com/2020/02/04/parma-resident-injured-during-hazmat-incident/
Tags: us_oh, public, fire, injury, unknown_chemical
PARMA, Ohio (WOIO) - A resident is being treated at MetroHealth Medical Center after being injured in a hazmat incident Tuesday afternoon.
Parma firefighters were called to a structural fire in the 1600 block of Lorimer Avenue around 1:30 p.m.
Resident injured in a hazmat incident on Lorimer Avenue.
Resident injured in a hazmat incident on Lorimer Avenue. (Source: Parma fire)
When firefighters arrived, they found hazardous chemicals in a reactive state.
The SERT Haz-Mat team was then called out to the home.
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HAZMAT INCIDENT CLOSES RECYCLING FACILITY IN LEXINGTON
https://www.wtvq.com/2020/02/04/hazmat-incident-closes-recycling-facility-lexington/
Tags: us_ky, industrial, discovery, response, unknown_chemical
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) ‰?? Fire officials say hazmat crews were called to Lexington‰??s recycling facility after a hazardous chemical was discovered in the building Tuesday afternoon.
The Lexington Fire Department says crews responded to the Lexington-Fayette Urban City Government Recycling Facility on Thompson Road around 2:40 p.m.
Fire officials say a small amount of muriatic acid, also known as hydrochloric acid, was found.
They say two people were checked out at the scene as a precaution, but no injuries were reported.
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MAJOR FIRE BREAKS OUT AT CHEMICAL FACTORY IN TARAPUR, NO CASUALTY REPORTED
https://english.jagran.com/india/maharashtra-fire-chemical-factory-tarapur-live-news-updates-firetenders-casualities-damages-10008591
Tags: india, industrial, fire, response, unknown_chemical
New Delhi | Jagran News Desk: A major fire broke out a chemical factory in Tarapur, Maharashtra on Tuesday evening. Six fire tenders have rushed to the spot.
No casualties were reported in the blaze that erupted at around 5.30 pm at Harshal Chemical Company in Boisar Tarapur MIDC, chief of Thane Municipal Corporation's disaster management cell Santosh Kadam told PTI.
Three fire engines from Palghar fire services rushed to the scene, where firefighting operations were underway, he said.
Chemicals, which were stored in the premises, emanated a foul smell due to the fire and spread to the adjoining areas, he added.
While the cause of the blaze was yet to be ascertained, no casualties were reported in the incident,
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MAN TREATED IN HOSPITAL FOLLOWING INCIDENT AT SHANNON CHEMICAL MANUFACTURING COMPANY
https://www.clare.fm/news/emergency-response/man-treated-hospital-following-incident-shannon-chemical-manufacturing-company/
Tags: ireland, laboratory, release, injury, unknown_chemical
One person is being treated in hospital, following an incident at chemical manufacturing company in Shannon.
The man was hospitalised as a precaution, after a hazardous material incident was accidentally triggered, for what was later found to be minor occurrence.
Emergency services were alerted at around half past ten this morning, to an incident at the Reagecon facility in the Shannon Industrial Estate.
A man, who had been working with chemicals in an extraction hood, alerted the company‰??s on-site first aid personnel after he smelled a hazardous chemical.
GardaÌ-, ambulance paramedics and units from Clare County Fire and Rescue Service from Shannon and Ennis were dispatched to the scene, as well as members of the fire service‰??s specialist ‰??hazmat‰?? team.
The man was assessed at the scene by National Ambulance Service paramedics and removed to University Hospital Limerick as a precaution.
A company spokesman said: ‰??One of our chemists, who was manufacturing a routine chemical mixture in an extraction hood, got a smell of a chemical that is hazardous. As a precaution he alerted our internal first aid team who went through our own usual internal protocols which includes carrying out a medical assessment and where required seeking further qualified medical attention.
In this instance, a call was made to the ambulance service and the call inadvertently triggered a full ‰??hazmat‰?? response. The patient was checked by the Fire Service and his clothes changed before he was taken to hospital for a final medical check-up and is in perfect health.‰??
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‰??THEY‰??VE BEEN GASSING YOU‰??: PRISON WANTED TO SAVE ENERGY; INSTEAD GUARDS GOT SICK
https://vtdigger.org/2020/02/03/theyve-been-gassing-you-prison-wanted-to-save-energy-instead-guards-got-sick/
Tags: us_VT, industrial, follow-up, injury, ozone
Smith is one of several officers at Northeast Regional Correctional Complex who believe they suffered health effects from ozone gas inside the prison in 2017.
The gas leaked from defective and improperly installed laundry systems, according to Vermont Occupational and Health Administration investigators, at one point measuring at a level that maxed out a detector.
Supervisors never warned of the risk, and at least 10 state employees were exposed to the gas, documents from the investigation show.
There were no apparent published accounts about the leak, reported illnesses or frenzied fallout from the situation, which stretched from December 2016 to August 2017. But records from the case detail a plan gone wrong and a scramble to solve the problem.
Officials from the Department of Buildings and General Services (BGS), partnering with the Department of Corrections, set out in 2016 to cut costs and make state facilities more energy efficient. The state contracted in November that year with Daniels Equipment, a New Hampshire company, to install ozone-injection systems in prison laundry machines ‰?? a first for BGS.
The systems are said to eliminate the need for hot water and detergent. In prisons, that would yield financial, health and safety benefits.
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SLEEP ON A MEMORY FOAM MATTRESS? A ROUND ROCK FAMILY HAS A WARNING
https://www.kxan.com/investigations/sleep-on-a-memory-foam-mattress-a-round-rock-family-has-a-warning/
Tags: us_TX, public, release, injury, fiberglass
The Cantrells were getting ready for an out-of-town trip. They were cleaning up around the house, washing clothes and packing up.
Michelle Cantrell says they decided to also wash their daughter‰??s mattress cover. It‰??s the one that has a zipper and comes with the mattress. When they unzipped it, that‰??s when they noticed a tear.
‰??When we took the cover off and saw the sock was torn we didn‰??t think anything of it,‰?? says Cantrell. ‰??And handled that mattress you know all over the place and not knowing that we were depositing thousands and thousands of shards of fiberglass all over the room and into the air.‰??
They family was out of town when Cantrell says she started feeling itchy after putting on a shirt that has been washed with the mattress cover.
‰??I turned mine inside out and showed a light on it just to see if I could see anything. I didn‰??t know what was going on with it at that point,‰?? says Cantrell. ‰??And you could see all the shards of fiberglass just sticking up like knives.‰?? ‰??
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UPDATE: INCIDENT CONTAINED AFTER FIRE RELEASES CHLORINE GAS AT WRR ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES
https://wqow.com/2020/02/03/breaking-dozens-of-emergency-responders-at-wrr-environmental-services-south-of-eau-claire/
Tags: us_WI, public, fire, response, chlorine, wastes
The Township Fire Department says crews responded to a chemical reaction fire at WRR Environmental Services on Monday afternoon.
According to Darrell Christy, division chief for Township Fire, chemical pellets used to treat pools reacted with something else collected during the clean sweep day in a 30-gallon drum.
Christy said the fire released chlorine gas.
WRR has its own fire brigade to contain such incidents and that brigade had the fire put out by the time fire departments arrived. Once they got the fire out they left the area, suited up, and came back to clean up the chemical.
Fire departments from Township Fire, Eau Claire, Altoona and Rock Creek helped ventilate the office area and provided backup.
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CHEMICAL EXPOSURE AT TWU SENDS ONE TO HOSPITAL
https://dentonrc.com/news/chemical-exposure-at-twu-sends-one-to-hospital/article_f063ade8-f4ff-5f1f-8589-69b36286b9f4.html
Tags: us_TX, education, release, injury, other_chemical
Denton Fire and Rescue evaluated 11 people and transported one person to a local hospital for observation Monday morning after they complained of symptoms related to exposure to a weatherproofing chemical at Texas Woman‰??s University‰??s Hubbard Hall.
TWU evacuated the Student Union at Hubbard Hall and Redbud Theater Complex just after 10 a.m. amid multiple reports of eye irritation and coughing from people inside the theater, which is on the north side of Hubbard Hall.
Fumes from a weatherproofing solution applied to the outside of Hubbard Hall made their way into an intake valve and seeped into the ventilation system of the Redbud Theater Complex, said Matt Flores, a spokesman for the university.
‰??Apparently in the process of weatherproofing an area somewhere in the Hubbard Redbud area, where the construction has been taking place, there were reports from multiple individuals that their eyes were becoming irritated and causing them to cough,‰?? Flores said. ‰??Out of an abundance of caution, they let the health authorities know and Denton Fire and Rescue responded.‰??
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FEDS TO PROBE FATAL CHESAPEAKE ENERGY OIL WELL ACCIDENT
https://www.mrt.com/business/energy/article/Feds-to-probe-fatal-Chesapeake-Energy-oil-well-15026954.php
Tags: us_TX, industrial, follow-up, death, petroleum
Federal officials are stepping into an investigation of an accident at a Chesapeake Energy oil well that left three men dead and another hospitalized.
In a Monday statement, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board announced it has deployed a team to investigate the fatal Jan. 30 accident in Burleson County that killed three workers and left one hospitalized.
Known as the CSB, the federal agency was launched in 1998 to investigate accidents and to determine the conditions and circumstances that led up to them. As part of its work, the agency identifies the cause or causes of accidents so that similar events might be prevented.
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SUSPICIOUS SMELL TRIGGERS HAZMAT RESPONSE IN SOUTH BURLINGTON
https://www.wcax.com/content/news/Hazmat-incident-closes-South-Burlington-road-567466541.html
Tags: us_VT, laboratory, discovery, response, ammonia, drugs, gasoline
SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) Police say a suspected drug lab triggered a hazmat response and evacuations in South Burlington on Friday.
Police, firefighters and hazmat teams responded to the Edge fitness center on Eastwood Drive around 2 p.m. to investigate a suspicious odor coming from a car in the parking lot. The gym was also evacuated.
Hazmat determined a container in the car had ammonia, an ingredient used to make meth. But authorities later determined the owner of the car was making gasoline. No charges will be filed.
The road was closed for several hours.
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