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Friday, February 26, 2021 at 7:38:07 AM
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Table of Contents (6 articles)
HOSPITAL STAFF EXPOSED TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Tags: us_CA, public, release, injury, pesticides
HAZMAT CREWS CLEAN UP LARGE FUEL SPILL AT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Tags: us_UT, industrial, release, response, fuel
FREIGHT TRAIN CARRYING DANGEROUS GOODS JACKKNIFES, DERAILS INTO NANA GLEN PADDOCK
Tags: Australia, transportation, release, response, diesel
SMALL FIRE REPORTED AT WVSP FORENSIC LAB
Tags: us_WV, laboratory, fire, injury, unknown_chemical
HYUNDAI PREPARING FOR EV-RELATED FIRE-RISK RECALL
Tags: Republic_of_Korea, transportation, fire, response, batteries
STOLT TANKER REMAINS IN HOT WATER IN KOREA
Tags: Republic_of_Korea, transportation, follow-up, injury, unknown_chemical
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HOSPITAL STAFF EXPOSED TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
https://thesungazette.com/article/visalia/2021/02/24/hospital-staff-exposed-to-hazardous-materials/
Tags: us_CA, public, release, injury, pesticides
VISALIA ?? Three hospital employees had to be decontaminated last week after a patient exposed them to a powerful pesticide.
Just before 7:30 a.m. on Feb. 16, a patient who had accidentally ingested organophosphate, vomited in the hospital in the Emergency Department. Kaweah Delta spokesperson Laura Florez-McCusker said the chemical created a noxious gas exposing three hospital staff members who immediately complained of minor dizziness, headaches and nausea.
Organophosphates are a group of human-made chemicals that poison insects and mammals and are most widely used as insecticides in agriculture, the home, gardens, and veterinary practice. The chemical damages the enzymes in pests which control nerve signals to the body.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, symptoms of organophosphate poisoning include headache, dizziness, weakness, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting, salivation, watery eyes, and small pupils. Severe symptoms are seizures, slow pulse, difficulty breathing, and coma. Long after exposure, people also can develop nervous system problems such as muscle weakness and numbness and tingling of the hands and feet (neuropathy).
Florez-McCusker said hospital staff immediately isolated the patient and staff and then began decontamination protocols already in place in the hospital. The patient was treated for ingesting the poisonous substance and the employees were discharged a few hours later after being cleared by a physician.
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HAZMAT CREWS CLEAN UP LARGE FUEL SPILL AT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/haz-mat-crews-clean-up-large-fuel-spill-at-university-hospital
Tags: us_UT, industrial, release, response, fuel
SALT LAKE CITY ?? A hazardous materials crew and Salt Lake City firefighters quickly contained a 400-gallon fuel spill at University Hospital in Salt Lake City Wednesday morning.
University Hospital spokeswoman Suzanne Winchester told FOX 13 the spill originated in a central plant on the hospital's east side, close to the emergency department, around 6:30 a.m.
Workers contained the spill in about 90 minutes.
"Something like this could be problematic, particularly when it??s over close to the emergency department but, like I said, our emergency management teams have so many protocols in place and are so well prepared for these type of situations that everything went really smoothly and we were really fortunate that this turned out well. But this is something that they practice for and plan for all the time," Winchester said.
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FREIGHT TRAIN CARRYING DANGEROUS GOODS JACKKNIFES, DERAILS INTO NANA GLEN PADDOCK
https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/news/freight-train-carrying-dangerous-goods-jackknifes-derails-into-nana-glen-paddock/news-story/01490e838e47d77c53dfb5b143a26942
Tags: Australia, transportation, release, response, diesel
A freight train derailed in rural NSW early this morning has spilt 8000 litres of hazardous materials into a paddock.
Horror new aerial photos from Fire and Rescue NSW show crushed and derailed train carriages surrounded by flood waters in the Nana Glen area, west of Coffs Harbour on the NSW mid north coast.
A spokesperson for the NSW Rural Fire Service told news.com.au personnel and hazmat specialists were sent to the area, and will be providing assistance over the following days. Members of the SES have also been deployed to the area, which is being affected by ongoing flooding.
Fire and Rescue NSW said in a statement half of the 1500m train derailed about 2.15am on Thursday morning.
??One of these locomotives has leaked up to 8000 litres of diesel and 16 carriages have jackknifed, four of which are in floodwater,?? Fire and Rescue NSW said in a statement.
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SMALL FIRE REPORTED AT WVSP FORENSIC LAB
https://woay.com/small-fire-reported-at-wvsp-forensic-lab/
Tags: us_WV, laboratory, fire, injury, unknown_chemical
SOUTH CHARLESTON, WV (WOAY) ?? A small fire is reported at the West Virginia State Police Forensic Lab.
According to Captain Shallon Oglesby, on Wednesday, Feb. 24, at around 10:30 a.m., a single section of the WVSP Forensic Laboratory experienced a chemical reaction resulting in a small fire.
The fire was suppressed and contained by employees and the South Charleston Fire Department.
One employee was transported with minor injuries.
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HYUNDAI PREPARING FOR EV-RELATED FIRE-RISK RECALL
https://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/evs/124358105/hyundai-preparing-for-evrelated-firerisk-recall
Tags: Republic_of_Korea, transportation, fire, response, batteries
A flurry of fires in South Korea caused by the batteries inside Ioniq and Kona EVs may force Hyundai to initiate a global recall on its electric vehicles.
According to multiple South Korean news outlets, the manufacturer is already voluntarily replacing the batteries in local examples but this is yet to be extended overseas. Business Korea says 15 Kona Electric fires have occurred in Korea since the model launched in 2018. Other fires involving Ioniq EVs have also been reported.
The Korean recall involves replacing the entire battery pack, making it one of the first mass battery recalls ever and one of the most expensive recalls involving electric vehicles, with a dent the size of US$900 million reported.
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STOLT TANKER REMAINS IN HOT WATER IN KOREA
https://splash247.com/stolt-tanker-remains-in-hot-water-in-korea/
Tags: Republic_of_Korea, transportation, follow-up, injury, unknown_chemical
Seventeen months on from a very high profile explosion in the southeast of South Korea and the ship in question remains the source of much conjecture, still unable to leave the Asian nation.
Eighteen people were injured when a fire broke out on two vessels following an explosion on the chemical tanker Stolt Groenland moored at the Korean port of Ulsan in later September 2019.
The fire that broke out after the explosion spread to another chemical tanker, Bow Dalian, which was moored alongside the Stolt vessel. It was reported that the two vessels were conducting a ship-to-ship transfer when the explosion occurred.
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