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Table of Contents (8 articles)
BOMB SQUAD BLOWS UP EXPLOSIVE CHEMICALS DISCOVERED IN GIRLS? SECONDARY SCHOOL LAB
Tags: Ireland, laboratory, discovery, response, hydrazine
MAN TAKEN TO HOSPITAL AFTER CHEMICAL INCIDENT AT UNIVERSITY LABORATORY
Tags: United_Kingdom, laboratory, release, injury, unknown_chemical
AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT ON ENVIRONMENTAL TOXINS AND PREGNANCY
Tags: public, discovery, environmental, toxics
WV METRONEWS ? SHELTER-IN-PLACE LIFTED AT CHARLESTON PLANT
Tags: us_WV, public, release, response, bleach
PROGRESS ON ACADEMIC LAB SAFETY
Tags: us_CA, laboratory, follow-up, injury
HAZMAT CHEMICAL JEOPARDIZES HEALTH OF HOTEL RESIDENTS -- OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY
Tags: us_CA, public, release, injury, repellent
HAZMAT RESPONDS TO CHEMICAL REPORT ON CUSTER STREET
Tags: us_CA, industrial, release, injury, epoxy
SECOND FLOOR OF MILLVILLE TOWN HALL EVACUATED FOLLOWING HAZMAT SPILL
Tags: us_MA, public, release, response, mercury
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BOMB SQUAD BLOWS UP EXPLOSIVE CHEMICALS DISCOVERED IN GIRLS? SECONDARY SCHOOL LAB
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/bomb-squad-blows-up-explosive-chemicals-discovered-in-girls-secondary-school-lab-29633649.html
Tags: Ireland, laboratory, discovery, response, hydrazine
The experts carried out the controlled |explosion on a beach near Santa Sabina secondary school in Sutton.
Teachers called the bomb squad after |discovering dinitro-phenyl-hydrazine during an audit of their laboratory. The chemical |is safe when wet, but highly explosive if dry.
Soldiers isolated the chemical, which is better known as Brady?s reagent, and dealt with it after classes finished.
A defence forces spokesman told the |Herald: ?The substance can become unstable as it decomposes and dries out, and then becomes sensitive to shock such as being dropped or banged.
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MAN TAKEN TO HOSPITAL AFTER CHEMICAL INCIDENT AT UNIVERSITY LABORATORY
http://news.stv.tv/scotland/241801-man-taken-to-hospital-after-chemical-incident-at-university-laboratory/
Tags: United_Kingdom, laboratory, release, injury, unknown_chemical
A man has been taken to hospital after a chemical incident at a university.
Emergency services were called to the CH Waddington building at the King?s Buildings at the University of Edinburgh just after 11.30am on Thursday.
A chemical had been spilled in a laboratory at the Centre for Systems Biology on Mayfield Road in Edinburgh.
One man had to be taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary to be treated for irritation to his face.
Firefighters went into the lab with specialist kits to clean up the spillage.
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AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT ON ENVIRONMENTAL TOXINS AND PREGNANCY
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/09/an-official-statement-on-environmental-toxins-and-pregnancy/280020/
Tags: public, discovery, environmental, toxics
For the first time ever, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) this week came out with a strong statement about the risks of environmental toxins to pregnant women and fetuses. Also for the first time, the group is going so far as to urge individual doctors to advocate for policy changes to protect women and babies from exposure.
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WV METRONEWS ? SHELTER-IN-PLACE LIFTED AT CHARLESTON PLANT
http://wvmetronews.com/2013/10/02/chemical-plant-leak-in-south-charleston/
Tags: us_WV, public, release, response, bleach
SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. ? A shelter-in-place was lifted at 10:11 Wednesday morning in Kanawha County following a chemical leak at the Clearon plant in South Charleston.
Kanawha County Metro 911 and emergency management said there was a release a chlorinated dry bleach at about 8:30 a.m.
A shelter-in-place alert originally was issued for the Spring Hill community of South Charleston, from the Mound west, Dunbar and North Charleston.
Founded in 1995, Clearon Corp. produces dry bleach tablets and biocides used for water treatment in swimming pools, spas and sanitizers.
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PROGRESS ON ACADEMIC LAB SAFETY
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2013_10_02/caredit.a1300217
Tags: us_CA, laboratory, follow-up, injury
A year and 2 months have passed since the regents of the University of California (UC) system reached an unprecedented settlement with the district attorney of Los Angeles County in the criminal case against the university arising from the death of 23-year-old lab assistant Sheri Sangji from burns suffered in a University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) chemistry laboratory. Safety experts predicted at the time that when the vast and prestigious 10-campus system agreed to "acknowledge and accept responsibility for the conditions" surrounding the fire that mortally injured Sangji, the precedent would inspire (or terrify) other institutions into tightening the lax safety standards that have long prevailed in many college and university labs.
Fourteen months on, it's hard to measure how much conditions have changed on the nation's hundreds of campuses?but, happily, there are some hopeful signs. There have been real improvements in safety practices within the UC system. The criminal case against Patrick Harran, the UCLA professor who headed the lab where Sangji worked, appears headed toward legal resolution. A new report from the American Chemical Society (ACS) provides concrete and detailed guidance to academic institutions on upgrading their safety practices. And, while most efforts concentrate on culture change and training, at least one researcher is taking a material approach, using nanotechnology to reduce common lab hazards.
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HAZMAT CHEMICAL JEOPARDIZES HEALTH OF HOTEL RESIDENTS -- OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY
http://ohsonline.com/articles/2013/10/03/hazmat-chemical-jeopardizes-health-of-hotel-residents.aspx?admgarea=news
Tags: us_CA, public, release, injury, repellent
Due to an employee accidentally setting off a canister of bear repellent at a hotel in San Francisco, several hotel guests were ill and had to be taken to the hospital. Guests reported symptoms such as trouble breathing and irritation, according to NBC.
The incident occurred at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, September 30 at the Raddison Hotel Fisherman?s Wharf in San Francisco. There was a brief, hour-long evacuation of the hotel, and though no serious injuries or illnesses were report, four of the 15 affected victims were taken to the hospital.
A maintenance worker found the open canister left in a room, and the fumes were suspected to have traveled through the air ducts into the rest of the hotel.
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HAZMAT RESPONDS TO CHEMICAL REPORT ON CUSTER STREET
http://www.10news.com/news/hazmat-responds-to-chemical-report-on-custer-street-100213
Tags: us_CA, industrial, release, injury, epoxy
SAN DIEGO - A 55-gallon drum of overheated epoxy blew open at a fiberglass supplies business in the Morena area Wednesday, sending pungent fumes through the neighborhood and prompting precautionary evacuations of nearby businesses.
The non-injury industrial accident in the 5300 block of Custer Street occurred about 1:15 p.m., according to the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department.
Police and firefighters investigated, then called in a hazardous-materials team to determine the source of the caustic vapors permeating the commercial district just north of Friars Road, SDFRD spokesman Maurice Luque told reporters.
Authorities evacuated about 50 people from buildings in the immediate area.
Crews determined that epoxy in a metal barrel had heated up, apparently due to a reaction with some other chemical, to the point where it no longer could be contained, according to Luque. The lid of the drum then blew off and the some of the hot contents spewed out.
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SECOND FLOOR OF MILLVILLE TOWN HALL EVACUATED FOLLOWING HAZMAT SPILL
http://www.milforddailynews.com/newsnow/x1655343669/Second-floor-of-Millville-Town-Hall-evacuated-following-hazmat-spill
Tags: us_MA, public, release, response, mercury
The second floor of the Millville Town Hall was evacuated Wednesday after HazMat response teams determined that mercury from a scientific thermometer had accidentally spilled on a rug in the Board of Health office, police said.
At about 12:48 p.m., the Millville Fire Department responded to a hazardous materials spill at the Longfellow Municipal Center on Center Street that houses Town Hall and Board of Health offices, police said.
Upon arrival, firefighters determined that a thermometer had accidentally broken. The second floor of Town Hall was evacuated and the Department of Fire Service, HazMat Team was contacted, police said.
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