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Ralph - I think this is a superb service to CHAS. I would like to see the "in labs" category further broken down to reflect k-12; undergrad; grad/post-doc/academic research, and industry ------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- -------- The information contained in this message is privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. =A0 ACSafety has a new address: NEAL LANGERMAN ADVANCED CHEMICAL SAFETY, Inc. PO Box 152329 SAN DIEGO CA 92195 011(619) 990-4908 (phone, 24/7) www.chemical-safety.com We no longer support FAX. Please contact me before sending any packages or courier delivery. The address for those items is: 5340 Caminito Cachorro San Diego CA 92105 -----Original Message----- From: DCHAS-L Discussion List [mailto:DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Secretary, ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 12:32 PM To: DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: [DCHAS-L] Google chemical health and safety events summary I've been sending headlines from google about chemical health and safety events since February 1, so we're finishing the first three months of that habit. I thought I would provide a quick summary of the statistics I was able to easily generate from this data. If you're interested in exploring the information that's been gathered, you can use the filtering functions at http://delicious.com/acsdchas/ to focus on particular kinds of events. Anyway, the brief numbers are: Time period: Feb 1 to April 30 2010 314 incidents reported by google; the search terms varied slightly during that period but are becoming more standardized. 233 of the events reported occurred in U.S. Type of Event 67 fires 53 explosions 38 spills 28 leaks Sector of Event 106 in industry 41 in transportation 41 illegal activities 35 in labs 36 at home Consequence 124 public responses were the highest consequence reported 74 report injuries 30 report death Chemicals involved: (This is the hardest category; I began trying to identify this from the media report about half way through the time period studied and the media is not always trustworthy in this respect) 29 unknown chemicals involved 6 cleaning chemicals 4 formaldehyde 4 agricultural chemicals 4 ethanol This is still an experimental issue, but I think useful in providing some context for discussions about chemical safety issues and particularly in terms of gathering anecdotes for educational purposes. Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions for improving this effort. - Ralph Ralph Stuart secretary**At_Symbol_Here**dchas.org Secretary Division of Chemical Health and Safety American Chemical Society
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