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Chemical Safety Headlines From Google
Monday, December 27, 2021 at 6:47:00 AM
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Table of Contents (8 articles)
3 EMPLOYEES SICKENED BY CARBON MONOXIDE AT RIVER NORTH RESTAURANT ?? CBS CHICAGO
Tags: us_IL, public, release, injury, carbon_monoxide
MID-AIR HAZMAT INCIDENT PROMPTS FRONTIER AIRLINES FLIGHT TO MAKE EMERGENCY LANDING IN TEXAS
Tags: us_NV, transportation, release, injury, carbon_monoxide
GUJARAT BOILER BLAST CASE: 2 CHEMICAL FACTORY DIRECTORS ARRESTED
Tags: India, industrial, follow-up, death, unknown_chemical
EVACUATION ORDERS LIFTED AFTER CREWS CLEAR OIL SPILL, CRASH IN FREMONT
Tags: us_CA, transportation, release, response, gasoline
HAZMAT CREWS BURN OFF LEAKING PROPANE AT CAPE CORAL HOME
Tags: us_FL, public, release, response, propane
WHY ONE CT FIRE DEPARTMENT SAYS NOT TO BURN YOUR WRAPPING PAPER
Tags: us_CT, public, discovery, environmental, metals
FOUR-YR-OLD AMONG 4 KILLED IN BOILER BLAST AT VADODARA FACTORY
Tags: India, industrial, explosion, death, unknown_chemical
EXXONMOBIL FIRE: FOUR PEOPLE INJURED AT BAYTOWN OIL REFINERY
Tags: us_TX, industrial, fire, injury, gasoline, naphtha
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3 EMPLOYEES SICKENED BY CARBON MONOXIDE AT RIVER NORTH RESTAURANT ?? CBS CHICAGO
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2021/12/26/river-north-hazmat-grand/
Tags: us_IL, public, release, injury, carbon_monoxide
CHICAGO (CBS) ?? Chicago firefighters responded to a hazmat situation in a building in the city??s River North neighborhood Sunday night, officials confirmed.
Around 5:30 p.m., firefighters responded to an eight story building at 59 W. Grand for the Level 1 Hazmat due to high carbon monoxide levels. The building is a mixed occupancy building.
According to the Chicago Police Department, three restaurant employees were transported in good condition to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in by the Chicago Fire Department. Two of those people were in serious to critical condition and one was in fair to serious condition.
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MID-AIR HAZMAT INCIDENT PROMPTS FRONTIER AIRLINES FLIGHT TO MAKE EMERGENCY LANDING IN TEXAS
https://californianewstimes.com/mid-air-hazmat-incident-prompts-frontier-airlines-flight-to-make-emergency-landing-in-texas/612288/
Tags: us_NV, transportation, release, injury, carbon_monoxide
El Paso, Texas (KABC)-A frontier Airlines flight from Las Vegas to San Antonio suffered an aerial emergency on Thursday night, prompting passenger planes to make an emergency landing in El Paso.
Dozens of passengers have become very ill.
??Battalion 3, at the moment there is Frontier Airlines with 253 souls on board, and many patients are feeling nausea and vomiting,?? a member of the El Paso Fire Department can be heard in a voice recording. ??You may also want to make this a dangerous goods without knowing what is causing the disease.??
I hear another firefighter saying, ??This could be carbon monoxide. I??m uploading a monitor.??
Several passengers were treated for possible carbon monoxide poisoning. Some on board said they were initially late in Las Vegas as the maintenance crew worked on repairing the fuel line.
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GUJARAT BOILER BLAST CASE: 2 CHEMICAL FACTORY DIRECTORS ARRESTED
https://www.ndtv.com/cities/gujarat-boiler-blast-case-2-chemical-factory-directors-arrested-2671544
Tags: India, industrial, follow-up, death, unknown_chemical
Vadodara: Two directors of a chemical factory in Vadodara in Gujarat were arrested on Saturday, a day after a powerful blast in the boiler of the unit killed four people, including a woman and her daughter and left 11 injured, police said.
The directors of Canton Laboratories, identified as Tejas Patel and Ankit Patel, were arrested on charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder under sections 304 and 308 of the IPC, an official said.
The blast, which took place in the boiler of factory located in Makarpura area on Friday, had killed a four-year-old girl, her mother and two men, after which a case was registered at Manjalpur police station.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone 3) Karanraj Vaghela said, "The investigation into the blast has revealed gross negligence on the part of the company management, which had allowed family members of the factory workers to reside in store rooms located hardly 20 feet from the boiler."
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EVACUATION ORDERS LIFTED AFTER CREWS CLEAR OIL SPILL, CRASH IN FREMONT
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/evacuation-orders-lifted-after-crews-clear-oil-spill-crash-on-i-680-in-fremont/
Tags: us_CA, transportation, release, response, gasoline
FREMONT, Calif. (KRON) ?? Crews are still working to clear a crash and oil spill on I-680 in Fremont early Friday morning.
A big rig full of gasoline overturned and shut down the freeway forcing hundreds of people to evacuate their homes.
First responders and a hazmat crew spent much of Christmas Eve cleaning up I-680 in Fremont after about 7,900 gallons of gasoline spilled into a storm drain and retention pond.
Before this big rig overturned, Officer Tyler Hahn with the California Highway Patrol says the truck was involved in a crash with a stalled SUV that spun out.
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HAZMAT CREWS BURN OFF LEAKING PROPANE AT CAPE CORAL HOME
https://www.fox4now.com/news/local-news/hazmat-crews-burn-off-leaking-propane-at-cape-coral-home
Tags: us_FL, public, release, response, propane
CAPE CORAL, Fla. ?? Cape Coral fire crews and members of the Hazmat unit had set up an unplanned light show in front of a home Thursday night.
Crews were called to a propane leak from an underground tank in front of the home on Edith Esplanade.
According to the department's Facebook post, the team set up a flare to burn off the excess fuel and successfully repaired the leak.
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WHY ONE CT FIRE DEPARTMENT SAYS NOT TO BURN YOUR WRAPPING PAPER
https://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Why-one-CT-fire-department-says-not-to-burn-your-16727212.php
Tags: us_CT, public, discovery, environmental, metals
NEW FAIRFIELD ?? As residents look for easy clean up methods after a holiday weekend of unwrapping gifts, local fire officials are urging people not to add wrapping paper to their fireplaces.
The New Fairfield Volunteer Fire Department said while it may seem like no big deal to toss the wrapping paper into the flames, the paper can be made of chemical compounds used to color the paper. Officials said those compounds commonly have high levels of toxic metal.
When it burns, the chemicals react with the paper and release hazardous gases, fire officials said.
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The fire department urged anyone using a fireplace to only burn firewood in it.
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Things like pine needles or pieces of Christmas trees, leaves and paper can rise up and ignite a flue fire. It could also drift up to the roof or onto the yard when flames escape the chimney, fire officials said.
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FOUR-YR-OLD AMONG 4 KILLED IN BOILER BLAST AT VADODARA FACTORY
https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/baroda/gujarat-vadodara-chemical-factory-blast-7688056/
Tags: India, industrial, explosion, death, unknown_chemical
Four persons, including a four-year-old child, were killed and 11 others were injured in a boiler blast at a chemical company located close to the railway tracks in Makarpura GIDC area of the city Friday morning. The impact of the blast was felt in a radius of about two kilometres, with several residential buildings reporting cracks, shattered windowpanes and shards of the boiler that flew across a distance of more than a kilometre.
According to police, the blast occurred around 10 am in the boiler of Canton Laboratories Pvt. Ltd, minutes after a passenger train crossed the Vadodara-Mumbai railway line, and was heard up to three kilometres away in Makarpura, Manjalpur and Vadsar areas. Residential colonies and offices located in a radius of about one kilometre felt the impact, authorities said.
The blast brought down the temporary brick structures built to house the workers, instantly killing 30-year-old Varsha Chauhan and her four-year-old daughter Riya. Two workers on duty ?? Ravi Vasava, 21, and Satish Joshi, 65 ?? were also killed
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EXXONMOBIL FIRE: FOUR PEOPLE INJURED AT BAYTOWN OIL REFINERY
https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/baytown-exxon-mobil-fire/285-028ba726-525e-4aff-97b2-8fb7c9bbf06f
Tags: us_TX, industrial, fire, injury, gasoline, naphtha
BAYTOWN, Texas ?? Harris County Fire Marshal's officials are investigating an overnight fire at the ExxonMobil's Baytown refinery that left four people injured.
The fire, which started about 1 a.m. Thursday, burned well into the daylight hours before the company confirmed it had been extinguished in a release sent around 9 a.m.
Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said three of the four injured workers were taken to hospitals by Life Flight.
Three suffered flash burn injuries, and the fourth employee suffered a broken leg, authorities said.
"We deeply regret this disruption,?? said refinery manager Rohan Davis. "Clearly, this is a very unfortunate incident. We will do a thorough investigation to make sure an event like this doesn??t happen again.??
Two of the victims were later released from hospitals on Thursday. Two others remained and were stable, according to ExxonMobil spokesperson Julie King.
Davis said the fire erupted in a unit that produces gasoline.
It was fueled, in part, by a flammable liquid known as Naphtha which is used to dilute crude oil.
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