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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2021 06:20:20 -0400
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I-95 CRASH: INTERSTATE 95 IN DELAWARE NOW FULLY OPEN IN BOTH DIRECTIONS
Tags: us_DE, transportation, release, injury, peroxide
SANITISERS MAY HAVE AGGRAVATED FIRE AT PUNE CHEMICAL PLANT: OFFICIALS
Tags: India, industrial, follow-up, death, flammables
PUNE FACTORY FIRE: POLICE ARRESTS SVS AQUA TECH OWNER UNDER CHARGES OF CULPABLE HOMICIDE
Tags: India, industrial, follow-up, death, chlorine_dioxide, illegal
HAZARD EVALUATION AND SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS FOR SCALE-UP OF A FUMING NITRIC ACID MEDIATED NITRATION OF ARYL BORONIC ACIDS
Tags: laboratory, discovery, environmental, nitric_acid
NON-ACID, ALCOHOL-BASED ELECTROPOLISHING ENABLES HIGH-QUALITY ELECTRON BACKSCATTER DIFFRACTION CHARACTERIZATION OF TITANIUM AND ITS ALLOYS: APPLICATION TO PURE TI AND TI-6AL-4V
Tags: laboratory, discovery, environmental, hydrofluoric_acid
PUNE: FIRE BREAKS OUT AT NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY
Tags: India, laboratory, fire, response, unknown_chemical
SDSU LAB REPORTS SMOKE
Tags: us_SD, laboratory, follow-up, response, unknown_chemical
HARKER HEIGHTS TARGET CLOSED FOR 4 HOURS DURING HAZMAT INCIDENT, CHEMICAL NOT IDENTIFIED
Tags: us_TX, public, release, injury, hvac_chemicals, irritant
LOCALS PROTEST FOR SHIFTING CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES FROM BATTAL BALLIAN
Tags: India, industrial, follow-up, environmental, pesticides
18 DEAD FROM CHEMICAL PLANT FIRE IN INDIA
Tags: India, industrial, fire, response, chlorine_dioxide, water_treatment
FIRE BREAKS OUT IN CHEMICAL FACTORY IN GREATER NOIDA INDUSTRIAL AREA
Tags: India, industrial, fire, response, flammables, solvent
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I-95 CRASH: INTERSTATE 95 IN DELAWARE NOW FULLY OPEN IN BOTH DIRECTIONS
https://6abc.com/traffic/shelter-in-place-ordered-as-crews-burn-hazardous-materials-off-i-95/10760761/
Tags: us_DE, transportation, release, injury, peroxide
NEWPORT, Delaware (WPVI) -- After an early morning crash brought north and southbound traffic to a standstill and then caused delays for much of the afternoon, traffic is finally moving again in Delaware.
On Tuesday morning, just after 5:30 am, a tractor-trailer traveling northbound just south of Route 141 in Newport, Delaware was hit by a pick-up truck carrying a trailer full of hazardous materials.
The pick-up truck, a 2017 GMC Sierra with a trailer attached, had 1,500 pounds of organic peroxide. The contents spilled onto the highway.
A witness tells Action News that the driver suffered two broken legs.
Throughout the day, traffic was a mess around the area with many drivers simply stuck in place. "It increased my travel time by probably 100% at least," said Matt Mackeprang of West Chester. "If it normally takes me 20 minutes to get from point A to point B I'm looking at two hours."
DelDOT diverted traffic and the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) focused on the clean-up. Ultimately, DNREC opted late Tuesday afternoon to burn the organic peroxide off the roadway. DNREC issued a shelter-in-place order for the half-mile radius around the spill while the burn continued for about 45 minutes.
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SANITISERS MAY HAVE AGGRAVATED FIRE AT PUNE CHEMICAL PLANT: OFFICIALS
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/sanitisers-may-have-aggravated-fire-at-pune-chemical-plant-officials-2459527
Tags: India, industrial, follow-up, death, flammables
Pune: A day after 17 workers, most of them women, were killed in a fire at a chemical plant in Pune district, an inquiry committee said on Tuesday that a large stock of sanitisers stored with inflammable materials may have aggravated the fire.
The police, meanwhile, have registered a case of culpable homicide against one of the owners of the firm, alleging "gross negligence", and arrested him late at night.
A case was registered against Nikunj Shah, one of the owners of SVS Aqua Technologies, under relevant section of the Indian Penal Code for "culpable homicide not amounting to murder", said Abhinav Deshmukh, Superintendent of Police (SP), Pune rural. Shah was questioned and later put under arrest.
The case was registered following an inquiry report submitted by a committee headed by Sub-divisional Magistrate (SDM) Sandesh Shirke, the SP said.
The preliminary probe showed that the company had not followed fire safety norms and building permission rules, he said.
There were no emergency exit doors and open spaces (where people can take refuge in case of fire), Mr Deshmukh alleged.
According to some of the workers, the doors of the section where the fire started got locked, and the local people had to use JCB machines to break down the walls to rescue those inside.
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PUNE FACTORY FIRE: POLICE ARRESTS SVS AQUA TECH OWNER UNDER CHARGES OF CULPABLE HOMICIDE
https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/pune-factory-fire-police-arrests-svs-aqua-tech-owner-under-charges-of-culpable-homicide
Tags: India, industrial, follow-up, death, chlorine_dioxide, illegal
The Pune Police on Tuesday arrested the SVS Aqua Technologies owner Nikunj Shah in connection with a fire that broke out yesterday in which 18 people including 15 women died. Police have arrested an offence of culpable homicide against Shah who owns SVS Aqua Technologies which manufactures chlorine dioxide among other chemicals and is located in the Pirangut MIDC area of Mulshi tehsil on the outskirts of Pune city.
Pune Superintendent of Police Abhinav Deshmukh told Free Press Journal, ‰??‰?? The company owner Nikuj Shah has been arrested under the charges of culpable homicide. All 18 bodies have been kept in the mortuary of Pune‰??s Sassoon Hospital. It is difficult to identify them as they had charred to death in a major fire that broke on Monday. It has been decided to conduct DNA tests which will take at least four days and thereafter bodies will be handed over to the relatives.‰??‰??
According to the police, the names of 17 of the 18, who died yesterday, are known though the name of one is still missing.
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HAZARD EVALUATION AND SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS FOR SCALE-UP OF A FUMING NITRIC ACID MEDIATED NITRATION OF ARYL BORONIC ACIDS
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.oprd.1c00131
Tags: laboratory, discovery, environmental, nitric_acid
Our laboratory has recently reported the highly efficient and chemoselective ipso nitration of aryl boronic acids using fuming nitric acid as the nitrating agent. Herein, we disclose and discuss the hazards associated with this reaction and the safety considerations that must be accounted for when increasing the scale of this process. Reaction Calorimetry was used to accurately determine reaction progress and revealed that careful, substrate-dependent selection of an appropriate reaction and reagent concentration and accurate titration of HNO3 are required to allow for safe and scalable use of this nitration process.
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NON-ACID, ALCOHOL-BASED ELECTROPOLISHING ENABLES HIGH-QUALITY ELECTRON BACKSCATTER DIFFRACTION CHARACTERIZATION OF TITANIUM AND ITS ALLOYS: APPLICATION TO PURE TI AND TI-6AL-4V
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1044580320303363
Tags: laboratory, discovery, environmental, hydrofluoric_acid
This paper conceives an electropolishing sample preparation procedure aimed at characterization of titanium (Ti) and its alloys using electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD). Specifically, it is shown that a single non-acid, ethanol-ethylene glycol-NaCl electrolyte solution can be used to electropolish Ti and its alloys for obtaining high-quality EBSD datasets. As a result, the use of hazardous acids common in standard Ti metallographic preparation procedures, such as hydrofluoric, perchloric, and sulfuric acid, can be circumvented. Moreover, electropolishing Ti with an ethanol-ethylene glycol-NaCl electrolyte is performed at room temperature with low voltage, as opposed to the low temperatures and/or high voltages used when electropolishing Ti in traditional solutions. The utility of the novel procedure is demonstrated on samples of pure ë±-Ti before and after plastic deformation and on samples of alloy Ti-6Al-4V created by additive manufacturing (AM) in stress-relived and !
heat-treated conditions. EBSD scans performed on undeformed pure ë±-Ti had high-quality diffraction patterns, which allowed for large areas to be scanned at fast speeds without sacrificing indexing accuracy. The electropolishing created excellent surfaces on the deformed pure ë±-Ti sample despite elevated lattice strains and numerous deformation twins in its microstructure. It also allowed for detailed EBSD mapping of fine sub-grain features in AM Ti-6Al-4V despite the alloying additions of aluminum and vanadium, the inhomogeneous AM microstructure, and the different processing conditions. It is anticipated that the major breakthrough achieved in this work will streamline and make safer future metallographic studies of Ti and its alloys.
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PUNE: FIRE BREAKS OUT AT NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY
https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/pune-fire-national-chemical-laboratory-7348135/
Tags: India, laboratory, fire, response, unknown_chemical
A major incident of fire was averted at one of the laboratories on the CSIR ‰?? National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) campus on Monday as alert students reached the spot and managed to douse the fire within a few minutes. Personnel from Pune Fire Brigade later joined the fire fighting effort.
NCL officials said that prima facie, no major losses have been reported. The institute‰??s Safety Committee has initiated a probe into the matter and till Monday evening, were unable to establish the cause of the fire.
However, preliminary assessment found some partial damage to a concrete wall, a suction and a fume hood. But, the incident is being termed as a ‰??minor‰?? one as the laboratory is large and the fire was restricted to a small corner inside the lab.
Students working at this particular lab, located on the eastern side of the NCL‰??s main building, were away for lunch at the time of the incident.
‰??A minor fire broke out soon after 1.50 pm on Monday at one of the laboratories under the Organic Chemistry Division located in the main building. There was nobody inside the lab at the time of the incident, as students were away for lunch. Meanwhile, some alert students present outside the building noticed the fire and rushed to the lab. They made use of the available fire extinguishing equipment and managed to bring the fire under control within 10 minutes. As per protocol, the Fire Brigade was alerted immediately,‰?? an NCL official told The Indian Express on condition of anonymity.
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SDSU LAB REPORTS SMOKE
https://brookingsregister.com/article/sdsu-lab-reports-smoke
Tags: us_SD, laboratory, follow-up, response, unknown_chemical
BROOKINGS ‰?? The Brookings Fire Department responded to a report of heavy smoke in several rooms in the Animal Disease Research & Diagnostic Laboratory located on the campus of South Dakota State University last week.
The call came at 5:26 p.m. Thursday, Interim Fire Chief Pete Bolzer said.
‰??Immediate investigation into the source of the smoke was delayed until facility staff were consulted due to the biological level 3 laboratories located in this area of the building. Once biological safety was established, a lengthy search for the source of the smoke ensued,‰?? Bolzer said.
‰??During the investigation, smoke was observed on the roof around the area where the exhaust stack from the animal cremation unit penetrated the roof. Fire department personnel began dismantling the area and found smoldering plywood, gypsum board and foam insulation. All burning materials were removed and cooled,‰?? he said.
‰??Fire damage was confined to the immediate area of origin with no spread to any other part of the building. No injuries were reported. Fire units cleared the scene at 9:30 p.m.,‰?? Bolzer said.
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HARKER HEIGHTS TARGET CLOSED FOR 4 HOURS DURING HAZMAT INCIDENT, CHEMICAL NOT IDENTIFIED
https://kdhnews.com/news/local/harker-heights-target-closed-for-4-hours-during-hazmat-incident-chemical-not-identified/article_ca8a05e0-c7c9-11eb-b945-c703decf077f.html
Tags: us_TX, public, release, injury, hvac_chemicals, irritant
While the business is back open, emergency officials were unable to determine exactly what was floating in the air at the Harker Heights Target that led to the store‰??s temporary closure.
The hazardous-material incident happened on Friday afternoon at 4:30 p.m. at the Target in Harker Heights located on East Central Texas Expressway.
The Harker Heights Fire and EMS responded to a call about an ‰??irritant in the store,‰?? according to Harker Heights Fire Marshal Brad Alley. Officials said one person was treated for respiratory irritation, but did not have to be transported to the hospital.
Alley said Monday that he did not know what the irritant inside of the store was.
Target‰??s media relations department told the Herald the chemical did come from inside the building, but was not from the building itself. They said the building was immediately evacuated and ventilated through its HVAC system.
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LOCALS PROTEST FOR SHIFTING CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES FROM BATTAL BALLIAN
https://www.dailyexcelsior.com/locals-protest-for-shifting-chemical-industries-from-battal-ballian/
Tags: India, industrial, follow-up, environmental, pesticides
UDHAMPUR, June 7: Local of village Battal Ballian today once again protested against functioning of red category industries in the area, which are creating pollution and posing threat to health of the residents.
The protesting people raised slogans against District Administration and Industries Deportment. They were demanding that polluting factories at Battal Ballian should be shifted from residential area.
‰??State Government has allowed installation of about 15 units of cement and insecticides in this area thus posing danger to health and lives of around 15000 population here besides Government and private school,‰?? they said.
It may be recalled that on May 27 late night, major fire had broken out in a chemical factory here, which could be controlled after seven hours with the help of Air Force fire tenders and helicopters. The District Administration Udhampur had evacuated people safely from the surrounding 10 km area as precautionary measures otherwise there could have been a major catastrophe.
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18 DEAD FROM CHEMICAL PLANT FIRE IN INDIA
https://thethaiger.com/news/18-dead-from-chemical-plant-fire-in-india
Tags: India, industrial, fire, response, chlorine_dioxide, water_treatment
Yesterday, a fire erupted in a chemical plant in Rune, a city in western India.
Reportedly, 37 workers were trapped in the building when the fire started.
Alerted to the fire, rescue workers dashed to the scene. They saw plumes of purplish-grey smoke coming out of the building. Firemen broke walls to reach the people trapped inside.
Officials say they have yet to determine the cause of the fire.
The factory is owned by SV Aqua Technologies, where they make chlorine dioxide products, mostly used in water treatment. The factory was in an area that is known as the Pirangut industrial estate, where many other factories and plants are located.
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FIRE BREAKS OUT IN CHEMICAL FACTORY IN GREATER NOIDA INDUSTRIAL AREA
https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/fire-breaks-out-in-chemical-factory-in-greater-noida-industrial-area-121060800366_1.html
Tags: India, industrial, fire, response, flammables, solvent
A major fire broke out in a chemical company in Surajpur industrial area, Greater Noida on Tuesday morning. The fire quickly spread and became intense due to the presence of chemicals in the company.
At least 15 fire tenders were brought in to douse the flame. After 2 hours, the fire was brought under control.
The fire which broke out at 8.20 a.m. caused panic in the surrounding areas as well.
The factory was completely damaged due to the fire. However, it is yet to be known what caused the fire.
Gautam Budh Nagar Chief Fire Officer (CFO) Arun Kumar Singh told IANS that the fire broke out in the morning at a company called RS Chemical. It produced thinner (chemical), which is highly inflammable.
No casualty has been reported due to the fire. The company is spread over 1 thousand square feet.
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