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Chemical Safety Headlines From Google Friday, October 28, 2011 3:32:18 PM A service of the ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety Connecting Chemistry and Safety at http://www.dchas.org All article summaries and tags are archived at http://pinboard.in/u:dchas Table of Contents (16 articles) 3 INJURED IN CHEMICAL REACTION AT NORTH GRAND FORKS BUSINESS Tags: us_ND, industrial, release, injury, chlorine FOUR CHILDREN ESCAPE METH LAB EXPLOSION Tags: us_AL, public, explosion, response, meth_lab STUDENTS POISONED BY PESTICIDES SPRAYED ON PLAYING FIELD OUTSIDE OF CLASSROOM Tags: us_OH, education, release, injury, pesticides SHERIFF‚S TRAFFIC STOP LEADS TO MOBILE METH LAB « THE CHRONICLE-TELEGRAM Tags: us_OH, public, explosion, response, meth_lab ACID BOMB EXPLODES IN OCEAN BEACH NEIGHBORHOOD Tags: us_CA, public, explosion, response, bomb THE PORTLAND PRESS HERALD / MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM Tags: us_ME, public, release, response, pesticides CHEMICAL INCIDENT IN APPLE VALLEY / MOUNT VERNON NEWS Tags: us_OH, public, release, response, unknown_chemical CHEMICAL BOARD CALLS FOR SAFER OIL, NATURAL GAS STORAGE TANKS AFTER EXPLOSIONS IN LAST 2 YEARS Tags: public, explosion, death, natural_gas, follow-up FRIEND SHEDS LIGHT ON ST. JOSEPH COUNTY MAN'S PYROTECHNIC BACKGROUND Tags: us_IN, public, explosion, death, bomb TEXAS TECH BUILDING EVACUATED AFTER SECOND EXPLOSION IN TWO WEEKS Tags: us_TX, laboratory, explosion, response, nitric_acid, waste HAZMAT TEAM SUITS UP Tags: Canada, public, release, response, cleaners MARLBORO MEDICAL EVACUATED DUE TO STRONG ODOR Tags: us_NJ, public, release, injury, hydrochloric_acid HAZMAT SCARE IN INDIO DUE TO NOXIOUS FUMES Tags: us_CA, public, release, injury, unknown_chemical CREWS PREVENT MAJOR CHEMICAL SPILL Tags: Australia, transportation, release, response, hydraulic_fluid INVERNESS CHEMICAL SCARE CONTAINERS REMOVED AFTER SHOCK FIND Tags: United_Kingdom, public, discovery, response, unknown_chemical PORT OF BRISBANE SHIP LEAKING CHEMICALS Tags: Australia, transportation, release, response, pesticides --------------------------------------------- 3 INJURED IN CHEMICAL REACTION AT NORTH GRAND FORKS BUSINESS http://www.wday.com/event/article/id/10989/publisher_ID/30/ Tags: us_ND, industrial, release, injury, chlorine GRAND FORKS (WDAZ-TV) - Three workers were taken to Altru Hospital with injuries after a chemical reaction at a northern Grand Forks business. Batallion chief Mike Sandry said the extent of the workers' injuries and their identities weren't available Thursday night. The Fire Department and Altru Ambulance were called to Western Polymer at 2250 Mill Road at about 5 p.m. They weren't completely cleared from the scene until about 8:45 p.m. Thursday. Western Polymer is a supplier of potato starches to the paper industry. Sandry says different chemicals were being mixed when it caused the reaction. Chlorine gas apparently filled the air, and could be smelled at the scene, but did not pose any serious threat to the public, Sandry said. --------------------------------------------- FOUR CHILDREN ESCAPE METH LAB EXPLOSION http://www2.wkrg.com/news/2011/oct/27/four-children-escape-meth-lab-explosion-ar-2616848/ Tags: us_AL, public, explosion, response, meth_lab WILMER, Alabama -- Four people are facing numerous charges after a meth lab explosion in Wilmer. Tuesday, Mobile County Sheriff deputies were called to a residence in Wilmer that caught fire due to a meth lab explosion. Crystal Parnell, Jamie Boykin, Jason Swann and John Stokley were arrested for manufacturing a controlled substance. Four children under the age of 12 were also in the trailer at the time of the fire. Everyone escaped without injury. When the explosion occurred, deputies say Swann and Stokely gathered up the meth and the ingredients and fled to a nearby wooded area. They were later caught and arrested. --------------------------------------------- STUDENTS POISONED BY PESTICIDES SPRAYED ON PLAYING FIELD OUTSIDE OF CLASSROOM http://www.enewspf.com/latest-news/science-a-environmental/28242-students-poisoned-by-pesticides-sprayed-on-playing-field-outside-of-classroom.html Tags: us_OH, education, release, injury, pesticides Washington, DC--(ENEWSPF)--October 27, 2011. Forty-seven students from Edgewood Middle School in St. Clair Township, Ohio, reportedly fell ill after the school‚s hired pest control company sprayed the herbicide Momentum, which contains the toxic ingredients 2,4-D, triclopyr and clopyralid, on nearby playing fields to treat for clover and other weeds. The incident and others like it demonstrate the need for a comprehensive national policy to protect children from harmful and unnecessary exposure to toxic chemicals. Six students were taken to nearby hospitals and twenty-one students total were treated for symptoms, including headaches, breathing difficulties, nausea and dizziness. --------------------------------------------- SHERIFF‚S TRAFFIC STOP LEADS TO MOBILE METH LAB « THE CHRONICLE-TELEGRAM http://chronicle.northcoastnow.com/2011/10/27/sheriffs-traffic-stop-leads-to-mobile-meth-lab/ Tags: us_OH, public, explosion, response, meth_lab SHEFFIELD TWP. ˜ A routine traffic stop by a Lorain County sheriff‚s deputy on Wednesday turned into a potentially volatile situation after he discovered a mobile methamphetamine lab in the trunk of a 1999 Chevy Prizm. Lorain County Drug Task Force Detective Jim Larkin said rolling meth labs are rare in Lorain County but are a growing problem throughout the country. He said they are particularly dangerous because the process to „cook‰ meth can lead to explosions, and the fumes are toxic. They are also hard to find, he said. --------------------------------------------- ACID BOMB EXPLODES IN OCEAN BEACH NEIGHBORHOOD http://www.760kfmb.com/story/15889137/acid-bomb-explodes-in-ocean-beach-neighborhood Tags: us_CA, public, explosion, response, bomb SAN DIEGO (CBS 8) - San Diego police and arson investigators are searching Thursday for the suspects who set off a bomb in Ocean Beach overnight. Around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday a neighbor called 911 to report a loud explosion near the intersection of Bacon Street and Brighton Avenue. When fire crews arrived, they discovered an acid bomb had been set off. Hazmat workers spent hours cleaning up the scene and making it safe for those living in the area. Fire investigators say this kind of bomb is extremely dangerous and this is just the latest in a string of explosions in the Ocean Beach area. --------------------------------------------- THE PORTLAND PRESS HERALD / MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM http://www.pressherald.com/news/chemical-spill-closes-A-Falmouth-street.html Tags: us_ME, public, release, response, pesticides FALMOUTH ˜ A chemical spill inside a home on Chester Avenue forced the town to close the street for about an hour today. Falmouth Fire Chief Howard Rice said his department was called to 3 Chester Ave. around 4:10 p.m. after the home‚s owner reported they had spilled a small glass container of malathion (pesticide) on the basement floor. The homeowner said he accidentally knocked the container off the shelf ˆ it was on the back of the shelf and had been out of sight for years ˆ while he was cleaning the basement. The Portland Fire Department‚s hazardous materials team was called in to assist with the cleanup. A representative from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection also responded. --------------------------------------------- CHEMICAL INCIDENT IN APPLE VALLEY / MOUNT VERNON NEWS http://www.mountvernonnews.com/local/11/10/27/chemical-incident-in-apple-valley Tags: us_OH, public, release, response, unknown_chemical HOWARD ˜ Six people, including three Knox County Sheriff‚s Office detectives, underwent decontamination procedures after a chemical spill was discovered while the detectives were talking with the occupants of a house in Apple Valley. Eastern Knox County Joint Fire District Chief Larry Stimpert said they were called to the house at 604 Lakeview Heights Drive by the sheriff‚s office when the detectives smelled an odor and investigated, finding a „chemical release.‰ The fire department was there to make sure the release was contained, Stimpert explained. The three detectives and three occupants left the house and underwent precautionary decontamination. By 4 p.m., the occupants had been taken to Knox Community Hospital for further decontamination; the detectives were still undergoing decontamination at the site. Deputies had blocked off the street in front of the house as a precaution. Stimpert said a team from another agency would be coming to determine what the chemical was and clean up the scene. Knox Emergency Management Director Brian Hess, who was also at the scene, said that the other team would be from a law enforcement agency outside the county, but he had not yet been informed who would be able to come. --------------------------------------------- CHEMICAL BOARD CALLS FOR SAFER OIL, NATURAL GAS STORAGE TANKS AFTER EXPLOSIONS IN LAST 2 YEARS http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/chemical-board-calls-for-safer-oil-natural-gas-storage-tanks-after-explosions-in-last-2-years/2011/10/27/gIQAOfxQMM_story.html Tags: public, explosion, death, natural_gas, follow-up JACKSON, Miss. ˜ Explosions from oil and natural gas tanks tucked away in isolated areas killed 44 people in the last three decades, federal regulators said Thursday as they called on companies and officials to make the storage sites safer. Thousands of tanks are in places where young people hang out. Those killed were all 25 or younger, often at unsecured sites that did not have warning signs or fences, according to a report released by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board. Several of the explosions have been sparked by cigarette smoking. Loading... Comments Weigh InCorrections? Three accidents in the last two years have highlighted the problems. An explosion in south Mississippi in 2009 killed two teenagers in a clearing in the woods near the small town of Carnes. Six months later, another person died while exploring a similar storage site in Oklahoma. Two weeks after that, a 24-year-old woman died when a tank exploded in New London, Texas, near the Louisiana state line. --------------------------------------------- FRIEND SHEDS LIGHT ON ST. JOSEPH COUNTY MAN'S PYROTECHNIC BACKGROUND http://www.wsbt.com/news/wsbt-friend-sheds-light-into-mans-pyrotechnic-background-20111027,0,1673816.story Tags: us_IN, public, explosion, death, bomb ST. JOSEPH COUNTY ˆ Loud explosions echoed through the northern part of St. Joseph County Thursday afternoon as bomb squad and hazardous materials technicians worked to burn off materials found in a Currant Road home. Experts felt it was safer to dig trenches and do so on the 5-acre property owned by 65-year-old Stan Warren, rather than remove the chemicals and risk an explosion while transporting them somewhere else, said St. Joseph County police Sgt. Matt Blank. They also brought in a chemist to help identify some of the products that weren‚t marked. Blank said that took less time and allowed technicians to get rid of the materials more quickly than if they were taken off site. Police found Warren dead behind his home Wednesday morning. He built an explosive device to take his own life, Blank said. Authorities closed a portion of the 55,000 block of Currant Road more than 24 hours after finding about 3,000 pounds of explosive materials from Warren‚s basement and a storage shed behind the home. --------------------------------------------- TEXAS TECH BUILDING EVACUATED AFTER SECOND EXPLOSION IN TWO WEEKS http://lubbockonline.com/local-news/2011-10-27/texas-tech-building-evacuated-after-second-explosion-two-weeks#.TqqAlWBSbZ8 Tags: us_TX, laboratory, explosion, response, nitric_acid, waste The second chemical explosion in two weeks at Texas Tech prompted campus officials to evacuate an engineering building late Thursday. Nobody was injured or contaminated after what Tech spokesman Chris Cook called a small explosion about 7:15 p.m. in a laboratory in the Engineering and Technology Lab off the school‚s engineering key at Canton Avenue and Glenna Goodacre Boulevard. Cook said nobody was in the lab when nitric acid and an unknown waste product somehow combined to produce the explosion. A student responding to the noise opened the lab‚s door and recognized the smell of nitric acid, Cook said. „They evacuated the building immediately upon realizing what it was,‰ he said. --------------------------------------------- HAZMAT TEAM SUITS UP http://www.bclocalnews.com/vancouver_island_south/sookenewsmirror/news/132559283.html Tags: Canada, public, release, response, cleaners Sooke firefighters donned hazmat suits to investigate a minor chemical spill in a van last Wednesday night on Sooke Road. The stretch of Highway 14 was closed between Charters and Drennan for a couple of hours while the Sooke fire department worked with RCMP to clean up some usually harmless cleaning agents that accidentally combined together creating debilitating fumes, said Fire Chief Steve Sorensen. „We sent our guys in encapsulating suits and set up a decontamination area in case they spill anything on them,‰ said Sorensen. --------------------------------------------- MARLBORO MEDICAL EVACUATED DUE TO STRONG ODOR http://marlboro.patch.com/articles/marlboro-medical-evacuated-due-to-strong-odor Tags: us_NJ, public, release, injury, hydrochloric_acid A strong odor due to muriatic acid used by a contractor to clean caused an evacuation of Marlboro Medical Center yesterday morning on Rt. 9. Police Captain Steve Mennona said Monmouth County Hazmat, the Marlboro Office of Emergency Management and Morganville First Aid responded to the scene. Six people reported feeling ill and were treated by first aid on the scene, no patients were transported to the hospital. --------------------------------------------- HAZMAT SCARE IN INDIO DUE TO NOXIOUS FUMES http://www.kpsplocal2.com/news/local/story/HazMat-Scare-in-Indio-Due-to-Noxious-Fumes/13IgU0r5hUyABr-1MkTdLA.cspx Tags: us_CA, public, release, injury, unknown_chemical A half dozen people were treated for inhaling "noxious fumes" in Indio Wednesday, which turned out to be bug spray. Jody Hagemann of the Riverside County Fire Department says around 5 p.m., six people reported they "were overcome by noxious fumes in the area of their home." Nineteen firefighters were sent to the house on Lahinch Court, near Avenue 42 and Golf Center Parkway to treat the people. The cause of the fumes was determined to be insect spray, and no one was hospitalized, according to Hagemann. --------------------------------------------- CREWS PREVENT MAJOR CHEMICAL SPILL http://www.bluemountainsgazette.com.au/news/local/news/general/crews-prevent-major-chemical-spill/2336812.aspx Tags: Australia, transportation, release, response, hydraulic_fluid Emergency crews have mostly been able to prevent 20,000 litres of an industrial chemical flowing into the water system after a tanker overturned on the Great Western Highway at Katoomba yesterday (Wednesday). The semi-trailer carrying a synthetic hydraulic oil specifically designed to be used in underground mines rolled on the highway at Civic Place about 12.30pm on Wednesday, sparking fears the fluid would flow into nearby drains that lead to Leura Cascades. Blue Mountains duty commander for Fire and Rescue NSW, Inspector Kernin Lambert, said the Katoomba crew were first on the scene and found a bright lime green liquid flowing from the tanker. --------------------------------------------- INVERNESS CHEMICAL SCARE CONTAINERS REMOVED AFTER SHOCK FIND http://www.highland-news.co.uk/News/Inverness-chemical-scare-containers-removed-after-shock-find-7318988.htm Tags: United_Kingdom, public, discovery, response, unknown_chemical CONTAINERS of suspected chemicals found dumped in a busy residential area of Inverness have been removed by a specialist company. A probe was launched on Wednesday following the discovery of the containers in the Culduthel area. Firefighters, Highland Council, police and SEPA (Scottish Environment Protection Agency) were called in on Wednesday morning to inspect several drums of unidentified liquids found by a shocked council by-election candidate as he was canvassing for votes close to Inverness Royal Academy. Ken Gowans, SNP candidate for Highland Council's Inverness South ward, feared the five 20-litre bottles of brown and clear liquids could get into the wrong hands, and demanded their immediate removal. --------------------------------------------- PORT OF BRISBANE SHIP LEAKING CHEMICALS http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/port-leak-second-leaking-container-found-20111027-1mks2.html Tags: Australia, transportation, release, response, pesticides Authorities have found a second leaking container on a ship docked at the Port of Brisbane, prompting a chemical spill scare this morning. Crew from aboard the ship were evacuated this morning when a container was found to be leaking zinc dithiophosphate. After fire crews safely removed the leaking container from the ship, firefighters discovered a second container, which contained organic phosphate packages, was releasing fumes. Advertisement: Story continues below The second container was resealed after the spill was found inside. The Department of Community Safety said no chemicals were leaked into waterways during either incident and no injuries have been reported. ---------------------------------------------
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