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Chemical Safety Headlines From Google
Friday, November 7, 2014 at 12:11:29 PM
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Table of Contents (6 articles)
FIRE CREWS RESPOND TO HAZMAT SITUATION
Tags: us_VA, public, release, injury, unknown_chemical
MAN IN CAR DIES OF APPARENT CHEMICAL SUICIDE
Tags: us_CA, public, release, death, hydrogen_sulfide
STATE COLLEGE: PENN STATE HAZMAT TEAM CALLED TO STATE HIGH FOR BROKEN MERCURY THERMOMETER
Tags: us_PA, laboratory, release, response, mercury
IBM WORKER EXPOSED TO CYANIDE IN YORKTOWN
Tags: us_NY, laboratory, release, injury, cyanide
RIVERSIDE: HAZMAT INCIDENT AFFECTS DISPATCHERS, FORCES POLICE STATION EVACUATION
Tags: us_CA, public, release, injury, dust
CSB RECOMMENDS STRICTER CONTROLS FOR EDUCATIONAL DEMOS
Tags: laboratory, follow-up, injury, flammables
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FIRE CREWS RESPOND TO HAZMAT SITUATION
Tags: us_VA, public, release, injury, unknown_chemical
Harrisonburg, Va. -- A hazmat situation unfolded in Harrisonburg.
The fire department finished airing out the house Thursday afternoon.
The situation started when two chemicals accidentally leaked together in the home. The homeowners were home at the time, and were held in an ambulance until the house was ruled safe. Neighbor Mike Vanover said some homeowners had trouble getting to their homes.
"You couldn't have gotten back there, you couldn't have gotten out. People who were trying to get their kids home from school, had to walk down to the corner down here to my left, and had to walk their kids back up the street. The road was blocked off, but rightly so."
The chemical leak was ruled an accident, and no other homes in the neighborhood were affected by the situation.
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MAN IN CAR DIES OF APPARENT CHEMICAL SUICIDE
Tags: us_CA, public, release, death, hydrogen_sulfide
SAN DIEGO ‰?? A man was found dead in a sedan filled with deadly gas at a Sorrento Valley industrial park Thursday in what authorities said was an apparent chemical suicide.
The car was covered in notes warning people to keep away, a fire official said. Hazardous materials crews spent more than three hours neutralizing the gas and cleaning up the potential danger to others.
Authorities were called out to the parking lot at Miramar Road and Production Avenue about 4 a.m. by a Starbucks employee headed to work, San Diego Fire-Rescue Department Capt. Joe Amador said.
The employee was parking his car at the back of the lot when he noticed a man slumped over the steering wheel of a car and a strange chemical odor. Amador said the outside of the car was plastered with printed signs saying, ‰??Keep away,‰?? ‰??Danger, do not open doors,‰?? and other warnings.
Police and firefighters cordoned off access to the parking lot, closed off Production Avenue and called a hazardous materials team.
Amador said there was a bucket of hydrogen sulfide on the car seat next to the man. A few breaths of the chemical will kill a person, he said.
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STATE COLLEGE: PENN STATE HAZMAT TEAM CALLED TO STATE HIGH FOR BROKEN MERCURY THERMOMETER
Tags: us_PA, laboratory, release, response, mercury
STATE COLLEGE ‰?? The Penn State hazardous materials team was called to the State College Area High School North Building Wednesday morning for a mercury spill.
A school administrator told the CDT that a single thermometer broke when it was dropped on the floor during Doug Schunk‰??s fourth-period advanced chemistry class.
Principal Scott DeShong said the class evacuated and no one was reported injured or harmed.
‰??The school district‰??s hazardous materials procedure was followed,‰?? he said in an email. ‰??As per the procedure, students were immediately removed from the area.‰??
Based on the amount of mercury that was in the thermometer, Penn State hazmat officials determined that the only potential danger to students would be if they had stepped in it, DeShong said.
DeShong said officials checked students‰?? shoes for contamination. All tests were negative. The area was then cleared, decontaminated and checked for contaminated laboratory equipment, resulting in the removal of one melting-point apparatus from the classroom.
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IBM WORKER EXPOSED TO CYANIDE IN YORKTOWN
Tags: us_NY, laboratory, release, injury, cyanide
YORKTOWN ‰?? An employee of the IBM research facility on Kitchawan Road was taken to a local hospital Wednesday after being exposed to cyanide, officials said.
Yorktown Heights firefighters responded to the Thomas J. Watson Research Center at 1101 Kitchawan Lake around 11:40 a.m. on a reported hazardous-materials incident.
Police Lt. Kevin Soravilla initially said two workers were exposed to the highly toxic chemical and taken for observation. A spokesman at IBM later said the incident affected only one individual.
"A technician ... reported smelling an unidentified chemical while performing a routine semiconductor process step," said Chris Andrews in a company statement. "The technician was working in full protective gear, following all IBM safety procedures and all engineering safety controls were in place."
Andrews said the technician later returned to work after being released from the hospital.
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RIVERSIDE: HAZMAT INCIDENT AFFECTS DISPATCHERS, FORCES POLICE STATION EVACUATION
Tags: us_CA, public, release, injury, dust
Five Riverside police and fire dispatchers suffered minor eye and throat irritation and lightheadedness but remained on the job Wednesday, Nov. 5, after a chemical fire suppression system was accidentally triggered at the Police Department's Magnolia station.
There was no interruption of service even though the building was evacuated except for the dispatchers, Lt. Christian Dinco said.
About 11:20 a.m., an employee who was vacuuming water from an electrical room down the hall from the dispatch center accidentally touched a sensor, causing a deluge of the powdered chemical to rain down into the room from the ceiling, Riverside city fire Battalion Chief Tony Perna said.
The employee suffered a minor injury but declined to be treated, Perna said.
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CSB RECOMMENDS STRICTER CONTROLS FOR EDUCATIONAL DEMOS
Tags: laboratory, follow-up, injury, flammables
The U.S. Chemical Safety & Hazard Investigation Board released a report last week with ‰??Key Lessons for Preventing Incidents from Flammable Chemicals in Educational Demonstrations.‰?? When C&EN posted my story about the report on Friday, we said that 20 children and two adults had been injured in fires from educational demos since the start of September.
As we posted the story, there was another incident, at a high school in Chicago: ‰??The students were mixing chemicals in the chemistry lab to create a green flame when something went wrong and there was an explosion, police said.‰?? That incident brings the injury count to 22 children and two adults.
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Ralph Stuart
secretary**At_Symbol_Here**dchas.org
Secretary
Division of Chemical Health and Safety
American Chemical Society
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