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Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 07:19:52 -0500
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Chemical Safety Headlines From Google
Friday, February 20, 2015 at 7:19:40 AM
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Table of Contents (11 articles)
WINNEMUCCA JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, STAFF DECONTAMINATED AFT
Tags: us_NV, education, release, injury, mercury
CHEMICAL SPILL AT BRURIAH OPENS NEW SECURITY PERSPECTIVES
Tags: us_NJ, education, release, injury, cleaners, sulfuric_acid
CHS REBUILDING WAREHOUSE AFTER FIRE
Tags: us_SD, industrial, follow-up, environmental, pesticides
FORKLIFT CAUSES CHEMICAL SPILL IN HORNBY
Tags: New_Zealand, industrial, release, response, phosphoric_acid
HASH OIL LAB FOUND AT SCENE OF ROSEMEAD APARTMENT EXPLOSION, FIRE
Tags: us_CA, laboratory, explosion, response, drugs
CHEMICAL FIRE REPORTED AT GUNTER INDUSTRIAL PARK
Tags: us_AL, industrial, fire, response, magnesium, zinc
‰??LARGE FIRE EXPLOSION‰?? ROCKS EXXONMOBIL‰??S TORRANCE REFINERY IN CALIFORNIA
Tags: us_CA, industrial, explosion, injury, unknown_chemical
FIRE SMOLDERS A 3RD DAY FROM W.VA. OIL TRAIN DERAILMENT
Tags: us_WV, transportation, follow-up, response, petroleum
HAZMAT TEAMS RESPOND AFTER CHEMICAL MIX SICKENS 3 IN BUILDING
Tags: us_MD, public, release, injury, cleaners
MINDEN ROAD BACK OPEN AFTER HAZMAT SPILL
Tags: us_NV, industrial, release, injury, acids
4 TRANSPORTED TO HOSPITAL AFTER HAZMAT INCIDENT AT SHREWSBURY WALMART
Tags: us_PA, public, release, injury, cleaners
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WINNEMUCCA JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, STAFF DECONTAMINATED AFT
Tags: us_NV, education, release, injury, mercury
Winnemucca Junior High School students are in the process of being decontaminated after a student brought a salt shaker filled with mercury to school Thursday morning.
Emergency responders were initially dispatched on the report of a mercury spill. They subsequently learned the container of mercury was passed around among some of the students and may have been spilled in some locations.
Having consulted with HAZMAT experts, and facing the possibility the students may have carried the mercury on their hands and clothes throughout the school, the decision was made to decontaminate all the students. As part of that process, the shoes of all the students were collected and will be destroyed.
The decontamination process was conducted by Humboldt General Hospital - EMS, who are responsible for HAZMAT responses in Humboldt County, along with the fire departments.
The student who brought the mercury to school and the 10-15 students who may have had contact with the mercury were transported to Humboldt General Hospital as a precaution.
Emergency responders subsequently learned the container of mercury may also have been passed around on the bus with students from three other schools. Those schools (Lowry High School, Winnemucca Grammar School, and French Ford Middle School) were instructed to shelter-in-place until cleared. The schools were ultimately cleared and the students were allowed to go home.
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CHEMICAL SPILL AT BRURIAH OPENS NEW SECURITY PERSPECTIVES
Tags: us_NJ, education, release, injury, cleaners, sulfuric_acid
Elizabeth‰??The JEC‰??s Bruriah High School for Girls was evacuated last Thursday when a maintenance worker accidentally spilled sulfuric acid/drain cleaner in his workroom. As ambulances and fire crews filled the street in front of the school, the students were evacuated to the JEC‰??s shul, Adath Israel, one block away, where they spent a few hours waiting for the spill to be cleaned up and the area to be declared safe.
‰??Who would have thought that spilling some liquid drain opener would lead to the evacuation of an entire school building? But the reality of what happened at Bruriah has been the catalyst for an overview of many of our procedures, from cataloging and disposing of cleaning products to the uses of such substances in intentional ways to harm people,‰?? said Rabbi Eliyahu Teitz, Associate Dean of Bruriah High School.
Some girls broke out in a kumsitz (sing along‰??the literal translation from the Yiddish means ‰??come and sit‰??). Then someone came in and said whoever doesn‰??t feel good should go to the nurse.
‰??My head was hurting, and they told us that whoever has asthma should go. Hatzalah came to treat about 30 girls. They went down to get evaluated and some of them went to the hospital and then the buses came.‰??
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CHS REBUILDING WAREHOUSE AFTER FIRE
Tags: us_SD, industrial, follow-up, environmental, pesticides
Mitchell's CHS Farmers Alliance plans to start rebuilding its chemical storage warehouse in the next couple of weeks.
The former warehouse burned in an early-morning November fire that blanketed the town in a putrid smell. CHS General Manager Jim Morken said Thursday the estimated losses from the fire will total more than $2 million.
He explained the warehouse will be built on the same site as the previous building. The same foundation will be used.
"We'll be using the same design for this building, but it will be 4 feet longer and 4 feet wider, so the poles to support the building can be outside the existing concrete," Morken said.
When the building burned, the containers inside melted. The chemicals -- mostly crop herbicide -- leaked onto the concrete pad and were held in by a 6-inch high berm designed to hold in the chemicals from leaking out.
"We were very glad that berm worked the way it was designed to," Morken said.
Morken said there was about 25,000 gallons of chemicals that spilled from containers during the fire.
Mitchell Fire Marshal Marius Laursen complimented CHS on the design of the building.
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FORKLIFT CAUSES CHEMICAL SPILL IN HORNBY
Tags: New_Zealand, industrial, release, response, phosphoric_acid
Christchurch firefighters spent two hours mopping up a chemical spill after a forklift knocked over a 200-litre drum of acid this morning.
Crews from Sockburn attended the phosphoric acid spill at Peter Baker Transport on Braeburn Dr, in Hornby, shortly after 2am.
Senior station officer Brian Lewis said the container was knocked over by a forklift but was immediately picked up, causing a minor spill that spread about 20 square metres.
Workers contained the spill with a specialised rapid-spill kit, before firefighters mopped up.
Lewis said the substance was used in the aluminum boat-building industry, and the freight company was to transport it.
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HASH OIL LAB FOUND AT SCENE OF ROSEMEAD APARTMENT EXPLOSION, FIRE
Tags: us_CA, laboratory, explosion, response, drugs
ROSEMEAD, Calif. (KABC) -- A marijuana oil extraction laboratory was found at a Rosemead residential complex, where an explosion and fire forced residents to evacuate.
The incident occurred around 4 p.m. Tuesday. At least 100 residents from 36 townhomes were evacuated.
Los Angeles County sheriff's officials said they found a possible "honey oil" extraction lab at the location. Investigators were collecting more evidence from the scene on Wednesday.
Evacuated residents were allowed to return to their units a few hours later. Officials said three townhomes were damaged in the fire and one firefighter suffered minor burns to his ears.
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CHEMICAL FIRE REPORTED AT GUNTER INDUSTRIAL PARK
Tags: us_AL, industrial, fire, response, magnesium, zinc
Montgomery Fire Department battled a chemical fire for over an hour at a manufacturing company in Gunter Industrial Park.
About 11 MFD units responded to 2758 Gunter Park Drive, including Hazmat and heavy rescue units.
There they found heavy smoke coming from the back corner of the Thermalex Inc. plant.
The chemical fire is said to involve zinc and magnesium used by the company which specializes in aluminum alloy for air conditioning and heating units.
No injuries are reported. About a dozen employees were evacuated from the structure.
MFD has yet to give the all-clear and are still at the scene. The situation appears to be under control.
Barry Andrews, vice president of marketing and public relations at Thermalex, said the smoke coming from the building made the situation look worse than it was.
"We were doing a zinc application like we usually do in production when a spark ignited the zinc. Everything is OK, although the fire department has not given the full clear yet," Andrews said. "There's no damage inside the building, except for the zinc booth or collector that sustained some fire damage that will have to be fixed. There was mostly just smoke."
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‰??LARGE FIRE EXPLOSION‰?? ROCKS EXXONMOBIL‰??S TORRANCE REFINERY IN CALIFORNIA
Tags: us_CA, industrial, explosion, injury, unknown_chemical
There was a ‰??large fire explosion‰?? at the ExxonMobil Torrance Refinery in Southern California on Wednesday morning, according to the Torrance Police Department. The explosion, which happened shortly before 9 a.m. local time, prompted a shelter-in-place order for nearby residents, according to police, though fire officials said there was ‰??no chemical release.‰??
According to police, everyone was accounted for after the incident. The fire was ‰??quickly extinguished‰?? by both Torrance Fire and ExxonMobil crews, the department added.
Although police reported three minor injuries, ExxonMobil said in an emailed statement Wednesday afternoon that four of its contractors went to the hospital with minor injuries.
‰??Our top priority is the safety and health of our employees and neighbors,‰?? the statement read. ‰??Refinery personnel, working with the Torrance Fire Department, are conducting air monitoring at the refinery fence line and in the local community.‰?? The company said that no harmful emissions had been detected.
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FIRE SMOLDERS A 3RD DAY FROM W.VA. OIL TRAIN DERAILMENT
Tags: us_WV, transportation, follow-up, response, petroleum
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) ‰?? A fire sparked by a train derailment in southern West Virginia smoldered for a third day Wednesday, keeping federal and state investigators at bay and leading residents near the site worrying about the long-term water quality of a nearby river.
The fire ‰?? sparked when a CSX train carrying 3 million gallons of North Dakota crude jumped the tracks Monday in the unincorporated town of Mount Carbon ‰?? was 85 percent contained, said state public safety division spokesman Larry Messina.
"There's a few small fires," Messina said. "Until those fires are out and they make sure that site is safe, they're going to keep folks away from that vicinity."
CSX and multiple state and federal agencies are investigating. Federal Railroad Administration spokesman Kevin Thompson said some preliminary work has been done, including the retrieval of the train's data recorder.
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HAZMAT TEAMS RESPOND AFTER CHEMICAL MIX SICKENS 3 IN BUILDING
Tags: us_MD, public, release, injury, cleaners
Hazmat teams from Frederick County and Fort Detrick surveyed a building near Frederick for several hours Tuesday after three people reported feeling sick, according to officials.
Three employees said they experienced flu-like symptoms while working at the Wormans Mill Clubhouse at 2470 Stoney Creek Road shortly before 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, said Lt. Rick Stitely of the Frederick County Division of Fire and Rescue Services.
A team of roughly 25 personnel found a mix of cleaning products in the clubhouse, and determined the mix of chemicals to be the culprit. No pool chemicals were involved, according to Stitely.
‰??We're thinking ... somebody renting the place threw chemicals together... and it had a reaction,‰?? Stitely said.
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MINDEN ROAD BACK OPEN AFTER HAZMAT SPILL
Tags: us_NV, industrial, release, injury, acids
MINDEN, NV - A Douglas County road is back open after a hazardous materials cleanup at a building in Minden.
February 18, 2015 at 10:07AM, the Douglas County East Fork Fire District was called by the owner of a building at 1180 Angela Court. He had evicted a business owner, who left a vat of acid, which was leaking.
East Fork Fire requested assistance from the Quad County Hazmat Team, which is made up of Carson City Fire, Storey County Fire, Lyon County Fire and Douglas County.
During the initial assessment, fire crews located two types of acid, which have been determined not to be environmental hazards. They took measures to insure no continuing leaks from the containers inside the building.
Several surrounding businesses were evacuated and Nowlin Road was closed, but the road is back open and evacuations over.
No one is hurt or was exposed to the acid, according to Douglas County.
The property owner will be responsible for the cost of the cleanup, according to Douglas County Sheriff's Lt. Pat Brooks. That owner could then go after the evicted business owner who left the acid.
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4 TRANSPORTED TO HOSPITAL AFTER HAZMAT INCIDENT AT SHREWSBURY WALMART
Tags: us_PA, public, release, injury, cleaners
Four people were transported to York Hospital on Wednesday afternoon after they breathed fumes from a chemical spill at the Shrewsbury Walmart.
A total of 12 people were exposed to chemical fumes when a container overturned in a tractor-trailer that was being unloaded at the store, spilling what a hazardous materials team determined to be a cleaning solution, said Shrewsbury Fire Chief Tony Myers.
Those affected complained of a burning sensation in their throats or shortness of breath, Myers said. The four who were transported to the hospital had non-life-threatening injuries and were being kept in the hospital for observation, he said.
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