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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 at 7:07:54 AM
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Table of Contents (14 articles)
HAZMAT INCIDENT TEMPORARILY CLOSES PORTION OF VICTORIAN SQUARE I
Tags: us_NV, public, release, injury, chlorine, hydrochloric_acid
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: 'BOMB TRAINS' TRANSPORTING HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS ACROSS REGION
Tags: us_PA, transportation, discovery, environmental, flammables, petroleum
‰??FRISKY‰?? CAT CAUSES MERCURY SPILL IN GREELEY
Tags: us_CO, public, release, response, mercury
OFFICIALS STUDY CANCEROUS CHEMICAL FOUND IN HAW, CAPE FEAR RIVERS
Tags: us_NC, public, discovery, environmental, other_chemical
PARBHANI BLAST: COPS RULE OUT TERROR, SUSPECT SUICIDE
Tags: India, public, explosion, death, petroleum, suicide
FATAL BLAST AT INDIAN CHEMICAL PLANT
Tags: India, industrial, follow-up, death, other_chemical
EPA PUSH FOR MASSIVE MUNITIONS BURN IGNITES OPPOSITION IN LOUISIANA
Tags: us_LA, industrial, discovery, environmental, bomb, waste
CHEMICAL DEVICE EXPLODES, INJURES CHILD IN POPULAR HIGHLANDS RANCH PARK
Tags: us_CO, public, explosion, injury, unknown_chemical
FIRE CREWS: CHEMICAL IN PEANUT BIN MAY HAVE CAUSED CORDELE FIRE
Tags: us_GA, industrial, fire, response, unknown_chemical
13 WORKERS CHARRED BEYOND RECOGNITION IN BANGLADESH PLASTICS FACTORY FIRE
Tags: Bangladesh, industrial, fire, death, flammables, plastics
MOSCOW'S SEWERS BLAMED FOR MYSTERIOUS 'CHEMICAL SMELL' IN CAPITAL
Tags: Russia, industrial, release, response, ethyl_acetate
HAZMAT EXPLOSION AT TECH SENDS FOUR TO HOSPITAL|MYFOXLUBBOCK.COM
Tags: us_TX, laboratory, explosion, injury, waste
CHEMICAL SPILL AFTER TRUCK CRASH CLOSES I-57 NEAR CHAMPAIGN, IL
Tags: us_IL, transportation, release, response, flammables
EPA ANALYSIS SUGGESTS GREEN SUCCESS
Tags: industrial, discovery, environmental, hydrochloric_acid, toxics
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HAZMAT INCIDENT TEMPORARILY CLOSES PORTION OF VICTORIAN SQUARE I
Tags: us_NV, public, release, injury, chlorine, hydrochloric_acid
A portion of Victorian Avenue temporarily closed after Sparks firefighters responded to a hazardous material incident at Wagon Train Motel late Tuesday morning.
Firefighters say they received a 911 from a woman stating she smelled something like chlorine and that her throat was burning, around 11:30 a.m.
When authorities arrived, they say three of the occupants complained of throat irritation and were taken to the hospital for further evaluation.
Firefighters immediately cordoned off the affected area of the motel complex, and evacuated those residents. Residents of four units had to be relocated to vacant units, until their units have been repaired.
Firefighters say the motel manager stated that he was trying to unclog some pipes with a mix of chlorine and muriatic acid. They say the mixture placed a strong smell through some of the motel rooms, and also created throat irritation in some of the residents.
Twelve personnel responded including two engine companies, Hazardous Material Response Team, Battalion Chief, a PIO along with Washoe County Environmental Control and H2O Environmental.
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SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: 'BOMB TRAINS' TRANSPORTING HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS ACROSS REGION
Tags: us_PA, transportation, discovery, environmental, flammables, petroleum
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Action News is investigating the transportation of a highly flammable and hazardous chemical that is being shipped right through the center of Philadelphia.
It's called Bakken oil. It's a form of crude oil.
Early Saturday, 11 tank cars of a CSX train carrying crude oil derailed in South Philadelphia.
Last January, a 111-car CSX train partially derailed over the Schuylkill, six cars carrying crude. Two freight cars dangled dangerously over the river.
Action News is uncovering into the routes it's traveling right through your neighborhoods and whether enough is being done to keep you safe.
This is a topic few emergency responders want to talk about. More than a handful of local departments, including the City of Philadelphia and several municipalities in New Jersey, declined our requests for an interview.
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‰??FRISKY‰?? CAT CAUSES MERCURY SPILL IN GREELEY
Tags: us_CO, public, release, response, mercury
GREELEY, Colo. (CBS4) ‰?? There was a chemical spill in Greeley on Tuesday, all because of a cat.
The hazmat team responded to a duplex on 13th Street following a mercury spill. The man living there told firefighters his cat knocked the chemical over.
‰??The occupant reported that a vial containing approximately 2 teaspoons of mercury had been knocked over by a ‰??frisky‰?? cat,‰?? Dale Lyman with the Greeley Fire Department said in a statement.
A hazmat team cleaned up the spill and nobody was injured.
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OFFICIALS STUDY CANCEROUS CHEMICAL FOUND IN HAW, CAPE FEAR RIVERS
Tags: us_NC, public, discovery, environmental, other_chemical
FAYETTEVILLE -- Low-levels of a cancer-causing chemical have been found in the Haw and Cape Fear Rivers. The latter is a main source of drinking water for thousands of people in the Sandhills.
"I know people are concerned, and we too are always concerned about our water safety, and are doing everything we can to protect our customers," said Carolyn Justice-Hinson, a spokesperson for Fayetteville's Public Works Commission.
"The levels are in a range where we still would consider the risk acceptable," added Dr. Detlef Knappe, a NC State University scientist leading a study into the chemical.
The industrial chemical is 1,4-Dioxane. It's found in products like paints and waxes, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. It is also a byproduct of things like detergents. Usually the chemical is detected in groundwater, but, in 2013, the EPA began asking major utility companies to test surface water suppliers.
Knappe and his team began gathering samples throughout the state in October 2014 for a year-long study to learn more about the 1,4-Dioxane and its effects. The $120,000 study is being paid for by almost every major water supplier in the state, including PWC. Results will be used to help the EPA understand the dangers of the chemical, which is one they have not set regulations for yet.
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PARBHANI BLAST: COPS RULE OUT TERROR, SUSPECT SUICIDE
Tags: India, public, explosion, death, petroleum, suicide
AURANGABAD: The lecturer who was killed in a mysterious explosion in Parbhani had not reported to the polytechnic college in Beed for past 16 days and all efforts to contact him had proved futile. The police have ruled out any terror angle to the explosion and suspect that the chemical engineering professor may have committed suicide. Atul Waghmare of Waghala in Pathri taluka of Parbhani district was employed with Yogeshwari Polytechnic College in Ambejogai, Beed.
He had come to Parbhani on January 25 and was staying with his twin brother, Amol, an MSc in chemistry and a lecturer at Haribai Warpudkar Polytechnic College in Parbhani. Atul was killed in an explosion on Sunday morning that left the entire room charred. Atul Bhagwanrao Waghmare was employed with Beed institute for over five months and the administration had not encountered any problem with him.
College principal Raman Deshpande told TOI, "Atul Waghmare had joined the institute as a lecturer on 16 August, 2014 and was very normal and cooperative with the students. We never felt that he was upset about anything nor did he skip college without informing us. He did not report to the college since January 16 and all our efforts to contact him failed as he had switched off his cell phone.
" The forensic team has concluded that petroleum hydrocarbons were found at the spot of the explosion. Special inspector general of police (Aurangabad range) Amitesh Kumar, who also holds the additional charge for Nanded, said, "The forensic reports have concluded that the chemical content that fuelled the fire was petroleum hydrocarbons. We are awaiting chemical analysis and histopathology reports.
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FATAL BLAST AT INDIAN CHEMICAL PLANT
Tags: India, industrial, follow-up, death, other_chemical
One worker was killed and a further four injured after an explosion at a chemical manufacturing plant operated by chemicals supplier and custom synthesis firm Survival Technologies in Ankleshwar on 20 January.
The company has confirmed that the incident was caused by a short-circuit in a scale being used to weigh a barrel of 4-hydroxybenzohydrazide. All four of the injured workers have now returned to work, according to company vice president Sanjeev Shivdasani.
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EPA PUSH FOR MASSIVE MUNITIONS BURN IGNITES OPPOSITION IN LOUISIANA
Tags: us_LA, industrial, discovery, environmental, bomb, waste
Explosions used to be no big deal for residents of sleepy rural towns in north Louisiana's piney woods near the Arkansas border. Blasts meant jobs.
The Army's Camp Minden was the site of a former ammunition factory built during World War II. The factory closed in the 1990s. Still, the place is littered with millions of pounds of leftover artillery waste.
The stuff in question is called M6, a toxic propellant in grenades and artillery rounds. The Army doesn't use it anymore, and tons of M6 are stored in bunkers at Camp Minden.
Here's the problem: the waste is deteriorating and unstable. So government leaders want to get rid of it. They had hoped to burn it ‰?? sending smoke and particles into the air. But that angered local residents.
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Louisiana Rep. Gene Reynolds addressed union members from six parishes on the status of a proposed open burn during a recent AFL-CIO meeting in Shreveport, 30 miles from Camp Minden.
Kate Archer Kent/Red River Radio
Several dozen people packed a recent meeting about M6, and they didn't like what they heard.
The Army paid millions to a contractor at Camp Minden to recycle tons of M6. In 2012, there was a chemical explosion ‰?? a blast felt for miles. That's when investigators found the M6 propellant, stacked up everywhere in cardboard boxes. The company went bankrupt the next year.
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CHEMICAL DEVICE EXPLODES, INJURES CHILD IN POPULAR HIGHLANDS RANCH PARK
Tags: us_CO, public, explosion, injury, unknown_chemical
HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. (CBS4) ‰?? At least one child was injured when the child picked up a plastic package and it exploded at a Highlands Ranch Park Tuesday afternoon.
The child has been hospitalized and as many as four others may have been injured in the incident at popular Dad Clark Park located near Highlands Ranch Parkway and University Boulevard.
The Douglas County Sheriff‰??s Department says the boys were playing with what looked like a plastic container.
‰??There were five very young kids that were in the park, and what they were doing ‰?| they were playing with this plastic bottle type device,‰?? Sgt. Ron Hanavan with the Douglas County Sheriff‰??s Office said. ‰??Ultimately we believe it was some type of acid device. At some point this device actually went off or exploded.‰??
Hanavan said of the five children in the area, one of them received a type of minor injury after the chemical device exploded in the child‰??s face.
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FIRE CREWS: CHEMICAL IN PEANUT BIN MAY HAVE CAUSED CORDELE FIRE
Tags: us_GA, industrial, fire, response, unknown_chemical
CORDELE, GA (WALB) - Multiple fire crews are on the scene of a peanut fire in Cordele.
Fire crews believe a chemical that was put in the peanuts a few weeks ago caused the peanuts to overheat.
They are trying to save as many of the peanuts as they can.
Crisp County Fire Department is on the scene of a seed peanut fire at GFA Peanut Company, 1615 West 24th Avenue.
Sumter and Worth Counties are also assisting Crisp County crews.
There have been no reports of injuries at this time.
Crisp County Fire Department said about 900 tons is on fire in a silo and the fire began around 1 p.m.
The fire is contained and under control, but it is expected to burn most of the the night.
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13 WORKERS CHARRED BEYOND RECOGNITION IN BANGLADESH PLASTICS FACTORY FIRE
Tags: Bangladesh, industrial, fire, death, flammables, plastics
At least 13 people were killed Saturday in a fire inside a plastics factory in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Local media reported that the dead included 10 men and three women.
Fire officials said that the fire inside the four-story building with a tin roof was set off by an electric short circuit on the ground floor, which quickly spread through the building after a boiler on the same floor exploded. CNN reported that flammable chemicals also caused the flames to spread fast.
‰??The entire area was filled with smoke and the stench of burning chemical,‰?? a witness was quoted as saying.
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MOSCOW'S SEWERS BLAMED FOR MYSTERIOUS 'CHEMICAL SMELL' IN CAPITAL
Tags: Russia, industrial, release, response, ethyl_acetate
The Emergency Situations Ministry has said Moscow's sewers were to blame for a mysterious "chemical" smell that prompted complaints in a number of the city's districts.
In a statement on its website, the ministry said Monday that the fumes had been caused by the presence of ethyl acetate in Moscow's sewers, adding the substance did not pose a health threat.
On Sunday, the ministry issued a warning advising Muscovites to close their windows if they noticed a "chemical" smell, following complaints from residents in the capital's Sokolniki, Lefortovo and Nagatinsky Zagon districts about a mysterious stench in their neighborhoods.
A warning issued online recommended that residents stay indoors, keep their windows and doors shut, and seal any door cracks with wet towels.
An official for the Moscow branch of the emergency agency, Andrei Pavlov, told radio station Govorit Moskva that test results showed the concentration of air pollutants in the capital had not exceeded permissible limits on Sunday or Monday.
Pavlov added that the sewers "were mostly to blame for the odors," without specifying what else might have caused the smell.
Ethyl acetate, a colorless liquid with an intense smell, is used in various industries. Its fumes can provoke irritation of the eyes and the respiratory tract.
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HAZMAT EXPLOSION AT TECH SENDS FOUR TO HOSPITAL|MYFOXLUBBOCK.COM
Tags: us_TX, laboratory, explosion, injury, waste
Four people suffered slight injuries due to a small explosion in a Texas Tech chemistry lab. They were taken to the hospital for treatment, mostly as a precaution.
The chemistry building was not evacuated, though the area surrounding the lab was briefly closed off.
Chris Cook with TTU reports the mishap may have involved some kind of chemical waste.
"An investigation will tell if anything, if there was anything compromised there as far as safety concerns," Cook said. "But we do have a very robust and thorough safety program that all of our faculty and students go through."
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CHEMICAL SPILL AFTER TRUCK CRASH CLOSES I-57 NEAR CHAMPAIGN, IL
Tags: us_IL, transportation, release, response, flammables
CHAMPAIGN, IL (KTVI) ‰?? A hazardous chemical spill resulting from an overturned tractor trailer shut down Interstate 57 in Champaign, IL for most of Sunday. The spill forced more than 100 residents out of their homes. No one was injured in the accident.
Authorities said the trailer contained a chemical used in cleaners and shampoos. Dimethylaminopropylamine is flammable. Vapors from the chemical can cause health problems.
The driver of the tractor trailer was cited for driving too fast for the weather conditions.
‰??Road conditions were snowy,‰?? said Illinois State Trooper Tracy Lillard. ‰??It was starting to get slushy.‰??
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EPA ANALYSIS SUGGESTS GREEN SUCCESS
Tags: industrial, discovery, environmental, hydrochloric_acid, toxics
In 2013, industrial facilities in the U.S. generated approximately 26 billion lb of chemical waste, up 4% from the previous year. Of that amount, 22 billion lb, or 84%, was managed through recycling, treatment, or burning to generate energy. Of the 4 billion lb that was disposed of in the environment, 66% went to landfills or injection wells, 19% was released to air, 10% was transferred to other facilities for disposal, and 5% was released to water.
These data, issued two weeks ago, come from the Environmental Protection Agency‰??s annual Toxics Release Inventory National Analysis. The data might not seem relevant to the average research chemist or plant engineer. But the numbers reveal that the amount of chemical waste released to land, air, and water has decreased 7% during the past decade, according to EPA‰??s Daniel H. Teitelbaum, leader of the TRI program‰??s pollution-prevention team. Furthermore, the releases for some chemicals, including hydrochloric acid, trichloroethylene, and methyl isobutyl ketone, have decreased by more than 60% over that time.
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Division of Chemical Health and Safety
American Chemical Society
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