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BEACON HIGH SCHOOL CHEMISTRY TEACHER MISHANDLED VOLATILE CHEMICALS, CREATING FIREBALL THAT BURNED STUDENT: PROBE
Tags: us_NY, laboratory, follow-up, injury, flammables, methanol
FIRE AT BANG PU INDUSTRIAL ESTATE UNDER CONTROL
Tags: Thailand, industrial, explosion, response, unknown_chemical
AFTER WEST VIRGINIA CHEMICAL SPILL, FEDS DENY MORE ANIMAL TESTS FOR LONG-TERM HEALTH EFFECTS
Tags: us_WV, public, follow-up, environmental, other_chemical
TEAM ISSUES FINAL CHEMICAL LEAK REPORT
Tags: us_WV, public, follow-up, response, unknown_chemical
DISPERSANT CHEMICAL FOUND IN BEACH OIL PATTIES FOUR YEARS AFTER BP DEEPWATER HORIZON OIL SPILL, NEW STUDY SAYS
Tags: us_LA, public, follow-up, environmental, oils, sodium
UPDATE ON HAZMAT: 40 DRUMS ON TRUCK, ONE LEAKING; UNCLEAR HOW LONG TO PATCH IT
Tags: us_PA, transportation, release, response, unknown_chemical
PATRICK HARRAN AND L.A. DISTRICT ATTORNEY REACH DEAL IN SHERI SANGJI CASE
Tags: us_CA, laboratory, follow-up, response, other_chemical
DEPUTIES: MAN RUNS OUT OF HOUSE WITH SUSPECTED METH LAB COMPONEN
Tags: us_LA, public, fire, response, meth_lab
CHEMICAL FIRE ALLOWED TO BURN AT ALPINE TWP. BUSINESS
Tags: us_MI, industrial, fire, response, runoff
QUEBEC CHEMICAL PLANT EXPLOSION INJURES 1 PERSON
Tags: Canada, industrial, explosion, injury, chlorine
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BEACON HIGH SCHOOL CHEMISTRY TEACHER MISHANDLED VOLATILE CHEMICALS, CREATING FIREBALL THAT BURNED STUDENT: PROBE
Tags: us_NY, laboratory, follow-up, injury, flammables, methanol
A careless New York City chemistry teacher recklessly handled a jug of combustible chemicals, creating a fireball that ?melted? a student?s ear, an investigation has found.
The probe into the chemistry demonstration gone horribly awry at Beacon High School on Jan. 2 determined that teacher Anna Poole poured methanol from a one-gallon bottle into four separate Petri dishes containing nitrates that had been aflame only moments prior, according to a report released Thursday by the Education Department?s investigative arm.
The flammable liquid immediately erupted, flying across the classroom at the elite Upper West Side school.
?A fireball ? like a blow torch ? erupted and shot across the room. Poole did not hear anything, but saw a white flame shoot across the room, and then Student A was on fire,? the Special Commissioner of Investigation report said.
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FIRE AT BANG PU INDUSTRIAL ESTATE UNDER CONTROL
Tags: Thailand, industrial, explosion, response, unknown_chemical
BANGKOK, 27 June 2014 (NNT) - The fire at a chemical warehouse in the Bang Pu Industrial Estate is now partially controlled but firefighters are still battling the fire with water cannons. No injuries or fatalities have been reported.
The ablaze one-storey warehouse, belonging to the Bang Pu Intermodal Systems company, was about to collapse. It was found that the fire had burnt the area of around 7,500 square meters and cost of damage was estimated at more than one billion baht. The causes of the fire incident were still unknown.
The warehouse?s employees and people who live in the area ran for cover due to a lot of smoke which consisted of chemicals harmful to the respiratory system and skin. Medical doctors from the Samut Prakan Municipality traveled to the area to hand out face masks to the people and employees.
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AFTER WEST VIRGINIA CHEMICAL SPILL, FEDS DENY MORE ANIMAL TESTS FOR LONG-TERM HEALTH EFFECTS
Tags: us_WV, public, follow-up, environmental, other_chemical
CHARLESTON, West Virginia ? Despite rejection from federal health officials, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin is still pushing for more animal studies to understand what health effects may surface years after the January chemical spill into West Virginia's biggest water supply.
Though little lab research was available after the spill, federal officials quickly decided what chemical level was safe enough to drink in water. Citing the federal guidance, state and water company officials gradually let 300,000 people use their tap water again after a 4- to 10-day ban.
In February, Tomblin asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about additional animal studies. He didn't get the response he wanted.
The CDC in March described plans to track health trends with only existing resources, like birth defects surveillance, cancer registries and health systems data. The March 13 letter was made public Thursday.
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TEAM ISSUES FINAL CHEMICAL LEAK REPORT
Tags: us_WV, public, follow-up, response, unknown_chemical
The final report from the team of independent state-funded experts examining the recent chemical leak found few recommendations for improvement for the state.
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin said the 36-page report was ?very fair,? agrees the state handled the leak and subsequent contamination to the best of its ability and that it?s up to the federal government to move forward with further testing.
?I don?t know what we could have done differently, given the circumstances that we were working under and the information that we were able to obtain,? Tomblin said Thursday afternoon at the state Capitol.
Jeffery Rosen and Andy Whelton, the statistician and scientist leading the West Virginia Testing Assessment Project, joined Tomblin and Department of Health and Human Resources Secretary Karen Bowling in discussing the final report.
The group uniformly called for more support financially or through research from the federal government; Tomblin said he can?t commit to any more home testing unless the federal government agrees to fund more testing related to the chemical in the leak.
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DISPERSANT CHEMICAL FOUND IN BEACH OIL PATTIES FOUR YEARS AFTER BP DEEPWATER HORIZON OIL SPILL, NEW STUDY SAYS
Tags: us_LA, public, follow-up, environmental, oils, sodium
Traces of a chemical contained in dispersants used to break up oil during the 87-day BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 were found in material deposited on deepwater corals six months after the spill, and in weathered oil patties on Gulf Coast beaches four years later, according to a scientific letter published online this week in Environmental Science & Technology, the peer-reviewed research journal of the American Chemical Society.
Researchers found tiny amounts of DOSS, an abbreviation of the chemical compound dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate, in both the oil patties and deepwater sediment.
The research conducted by scientists with Haverford College in Pennsylvania and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts raises new questions about the assumptions on how quickly two COREXIT brand dispersants disappeared after being used to break up oil into tiny droplets, said lead author Helen Kirsty White, an assistant professor of chemistry at Haverford.
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UPDATE ON HAZMAT: 40 DRUMS ON TRUCK, ONE LEAKING; UNCLEAR HOW LONG TO PATCH IT
Tags: us_PA, transportation, release, response, unknown_chemical
Shortly after 11 a.m., a Pocono Mountain Regional Police officer was
driving behind a tractor-trailer, heading west on Interstate 80 and
exiting toward Route 715 in Tannersville, when he noticed a leak
coming from the box on the trailer.
The box bore placards indicating it contained hazardous materials as
yet to be identified. The police officer contacted emergency
responders abd later was taken to Pocono Medical Center to be treated
for inhaling the leaked chemical.
Firefighters from Jackson and Pocono townships, Central Pocono
Ambulance, Pocono Township and state police and the county Office of
Emergency Services responded.
The OES Hazardous Materials Team found the box on the trailer contained more than 40 drums, filled with one or more chemicals as yet to be identified, and found one of them leaking.
While first checking to see if the leaked chemical had mixed with diesel fuel or any other chemicals on the road before proceeding with cleanup, responders notified the nearby new Northampton Community College campus being built on Route 715 and occupants at three nearby residences, telling them they could evacuate if they wanted to.
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PATRICK HARRAN AND L.A. DISTRICT ATTORNEY REACH DEAL IN SHERI SANGJI CASE
Tags: us_CA, laboratory, follow-up, response, other_chemical
SETTLEMENT TERMS
Harran must:
- Acknowledge and accept responsibility for lab conditions
- Make no public statements denying responsibility
- Adhere to state employee safety standards
- Cooperate with state worker safety agency
- Pay $10,000 to Grossman Burn Center
- Create and teach an organic or general chemistry course for South Central Scholars
- Speak to UCLA chemistry and biological sciences undergraduate students about importance of laboratory safety
- Perform 800 hours of nonteaching community service to UCLA Hospital System/UCLA Health Services
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DEPUTIES: MAN RUNS OUT OF HOUSE WITH SUSPECTED METH LAB COMPONEN
Tags: us_LA, public, fire, response, meth_lab
BAYOU VISTA, LA (WAFB) -
A man was arrested on drug charges after part of a suspected meth lab caught fire Tuesday evening, according to authorities.
The St. Mary Parish Sheriff's Office reported Ryan Leblanc, 25, of Bayou Vista, was booked on charges of operation of a clandestine laboratory, possession of Dolophine and possession of drug paraphernalia. No bond was set.
Authorities said an off-duty sheriff's deputy saw a man run out of a home on Park Place with a container on fire. The deputy reportedly recognized it as a possible meth lab component and contacted narcotics detectives.
According to reports, detectives were given permission to search the home after talking to Leblanc and "located a clandestine lab and items used in making methamphetamine."
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CHEMICAL FIRE ALLOWED TO BURN AT ALPINE TWP. BUSINESS
Tags: us_MI, industrial, fire, response, runoff
ALPINE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WZZM) -- Firefighters allowed a large fire to burn at an Alpine Avenue business because of hazardous chemicals inside the partially collapsed building.
Heavy black smoke was first spotted around 9:45 a.m. at Fox Pools, located at 6411 Alpine Ave., near 8 Mile Rd.
WZZM 13's Sarah Sell reported hearing explosions and feeling intense heat from across the street.
Multiple fire departments and a HAZMAT team responded to the fire, but environmental concerns about chemically-tainted runoff caused personnel to decide to let it burn.
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QUEBEC CHEMICAL PLANT EXPLOSION INJURES 1 PERSON
Tags: Canada, industrial, explosion, injury, chlorine
One man sustained minor injuries after a tank containing chlorine exploded at a chemical production plant Wednesday in Becancour, Que., near Trois-Rivieres.
Police and firefighters responded to calls about a cloud of yellow smoke near the Olin Chlor Alkali Products plant at about 11:30 a.m., Surete du Quebec spokesperson Melanie Dumaresq told CTVNews.ca.
A deliveryman was taken to hospital for gas inhalation and is expected to make a full recovery, police said.
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