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SPILL AT CAROLINA PRIDE PLANT LEADS TO EVACUATION IN GREENWOOD S
Tags: us_SC, industrial, release, response, ammonia
ALWAYS INSPECT GLOVES BEFORE REMOVAL
Tags: us_CA, laboratory, release, injury, hydrofluoric_acid
FIRE BURNS AT PUEBLO CHEMICAL DEPOT; NO DANGER TO WEAPONS STOCKPILE
Tags: us_CO, industrial, fire, response, mustard_gas
IN RULING FOR VICTIM IN UCLA ATTACK, CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT SAYS UNIVERSITIES SHOULD PROTECT STUDENTS
Tags: us_CA, laboratory, follow-up, environmental
GRANTS PASS DAILY COURIER
Tags: us_OR, laboratory, fire, injury, unknown_chemical
GILROY HAZMAT INCIDENT: APARTMENTS EVACUATED, ROADS CLOSED
Tags: us_CA, public, release, response, hydrochloric_acid
CORROSIVE LIQUIDS ONBOARD CRASHED B-DOUBLE
Tags: Australia, transportation, release, response, corrosives
FIREFIGHTERS EXTINGUISH EARLY MORNING FIRE IN FRICK CHEMISTRY LABORATORY
Tags: us_NJ, laboratory, fire, response, other_chemical
HURRICANE HARVEY‰??S TOXIC EFFECT STILL UNKNOWN
Tags: us_TX, industrial, follow-up, environmental, oils
BINMAN ‰??PREPARING FOR WAR' KEPT 250 HOMEMADE BOMBS IN HIS BRISTOL FLAT
Tags: United_Kingdom, public, follow-up, response, explosives
ARMY SEEKS CHANGES TO CHEMICAL WEAPONS DISPOSAL IN COLORADO
Tags: us_CO, industrial, discovery, environmental, mustard_gas
CZECH EXPLOSION: DEADLY BLAST AT CHEMICAL PLANT
Tags: Czech_Republic, industrial, explosion
2 HURT IN EXPLOSION AT HP CAMPUS IN CORVALLIS
Tags: us_or, laboratory, explosion, injuries, hydrogen
CHEMICAL SPILL CLOSES DOWN MACARTHUR BOULEVARD AND FITCH IN IRVINE
Tags: us_ca, transportation, release, response, pool_chemicals
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SPILL AT CAROLINA PRIDE PLANT LEADS TO EVACUATION IN GREENWOOD S
http://www.wmbfnews.com/story/37803388/hazmat-incident-causes-evacuation-in-greenwood-co
Tags: us_SC, industrial, release, response, ammonia
GREENWOOD, SC (FOX Carolina) -
A hazmat incident early Sunday morning caused residents in a Greenwood County neighborhood to seek alternate shelter.
Police said officers, emergency management officials along with fire crews, HAZMAT, and DHEC responded to the Carolina Pride plant around 12:30 a.m. after anhydrous ammonia was spilled.
Due to the spill, all residents near the plant were evacuated. The Red Cross opened a shelter to house the evacuees at 2:45 a.m. Officials say about 60 residents took shelter there.
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ALWAYS INSPECT GLOVES BEFORE REMOVAL
https://opexshare.doe.gov/lesson.cfm/2018/3/23/19226/Always-Inspect-Gloves-Before-Removal
Tags: us_CA, laboratory, release, injury, hydrofluoric_acid
An employee wearing nitrile gloves while handling a small vial of hydrofluoric acid noted that the vial was more full than normal. After removing the cap to allow pipetting of a small volume, the employee saw a small drop of liquid above the left hand. The employee removed both gloves, washed and dried their hands, and donned clean gloves. While removing the left glove upon conclusion of the work, the employee felt a "stinging sensation" on the left wrist. When working with any material that may contaminate your gloves (or other PPE), carefully inspect it for potential contamination before removing. Any time you detect contamination on PPE and replace it, but do not change the condition(s) that caused it, you should assume that the replacement PPE could be contaminated.
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FIRE BURNS AT PUEBLO CHEMICAL DEPOT; NO DANGER TO WEAPONS STOCKPILE
http://kdvr.com/2018/03/24/fire-burns-at-pueblo-chemical-depot-no-danger-to-weapons-stockpile/
Tags: us_CO, industrial, fire, response, mustard_gas
PUEBLO, Colo. ‰?? Army officials say a fire is burning at a southern Colorado depot about four miles from where old chemical weapons are stockpiled.
Photo: Pueblo County Sheriff
Pueblo Chemical Depot spokesman Aaron Clementi said Saturday the fire has destroyed two buildings and damaged a third but is about 90 percent contained.
Clementi says there is no danger to the 780,000 shells filled with liquid mustard agent in the chemical area 4 miles to the north.
The weapons, which can maim or kill by blistering skin, scarring eyes and inflaming airways, are being stockpiled at the depot until they can be safely destroyed.
The fire broke out Saturday afternoon. KKTV reports that it is spewing a thick plume of smoke that is visible from Pueblo.
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IN RULING FOR VICTIM IN UCLA ATTACK, CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT SAYS UNIVERSITIES SHOULD PROTECT STUDENTS
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ucla-stabbing-court-20180321-story.html
Tags: us_CA, laboratory, follow-up, environmental
Katherine Rosen, a pre-med student in her junior year at UCLA, was in chemistry lab when she knelt to put something in her desk drawer. A classmate came up behind her and stabbed her in her neck and chest.
She survived the life-threatening injuries, returned to school and sued UCLA for negligence, charging the campus was aware of her classmate's "dangerous propensities" and failed to warn and protect her.
On Thursday, nearly nine years after the stabbing, the California Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling and decided Rosen's lawsuit could go forward.
Public colleges, the court said, have a duty to protect students from foreseeable violence in classrooms and other places where they have "curricular" activities.
The unanimous decision, among the first of its kind in the nation, put California's colleges on notice that they may be held responsible if they know a student is dangerous and fail to take steps to control him and protect others.
Citing the 2007 Virginia Tech killings, the state high court said public colleges and universities in California "have a special relationship with their students and a duty to protect them from foreseeable violence."
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GRANTS PASS DAILY COURIER
http://www.thedailycourier.com/story.html?i=27355
Tags: us_OR, laboratory, fire, injury, unknown_chemical
MERLIN ‰?? A science experiment gone awry at Fleming Middle School injured three students Friday, sending one to the hospital.
Rural/Metro Fire responded to the accident at 12:52 p.m., and said three students conducting a science experiment had received flash burns to the face.
Two students were evaluated and released to their parents, and one boy went to Asante Three Rivers Medical Center.
Superintendent Dave Valenzuela of Three Rivers School District said he went to the hospital and was told the boy is going to be OK.
Firefighters and police were able to identify the materials in the experiment as non-hazardous. They were not more specific than that.
The classroom was evacuated until the materials could be identified.
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GILROY HAZMAT INCIDENT: APARTMENTS EVACUATED, ROADS CLOSED
https://patch.com/california/gilroy/gilroy-hazmat-incident-apartments-evacuated-roads-closed
Tags: us_CA, public, release, response, hydrochloric_acid
ORIGINAL POST: Gilroy Fire Department evacuated some residents Friday and told others to shelter in place at an apartment complex in the 1100 block of Montebello Drive due to a hazardous materials incident, according to Gilroy city officials. The residents affected were alerted and authorities asked the general public to avoid the area for the next several hours, as it will take time for the gas to dissolve to a safe level, Gilroy police said.
Streets closures due to the incident included: Santa Barbara Drive and 3rd Street and Montebello Drive and Wren Avenue.
City officials say the hazardous materials ‰?? a mixture of chlorine and muriatic acid ‰?? have been contained to a poolhouse. The incident is not life-threatening, according to the city.
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CORROSIVE LIQUIDS ONBOARD CRASHED B-DOUBLE
https://www.coffscoastadvocate.com.au/news/truck-crash-closes-pacific-highway-off-ramp/3369821/
Tags: Australia, transportation, release, response, corrosives
Update, 10.45am: A B-DOUBLE truck which ran into a ditch near Bangalow this morning was carrying hazardous materials.
A Fire and Rescue NSW spokesman said a HAZMAT team was tasked to the scene on the northbound off-ramp of the Pacific Highway.
The truck lost control and veered into a 1m ditch earlier this morning.
Fortunately upon investigation the corrosive liquid being carried by the truck were not found to be leaking.
Recovery of the vehicle has now commenced.
Bangalow firefighters are still on the scene asisting the RMS with the clean up operation.
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FIREFIGHTERS EXTINGUISH EARLY MORNING FIRE IN FRICK CHEMISTRY LABORATORY
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2018/03/fire-frick-chemistry-lab
Tags: us_NJ, laboratory, fire, response, other_chemical
Firefighters were called to campus early Friday morning to extinguish a fire that broke out in a third-floor storage room in the Frick Chemistry Laboratory. The building‰??s sprinkler system was activated and contained the flames to the storage room, where a firefighter was able to put them out with a fire extinguisher.
The cause was traced to a light fixture in the supply room that failed and ignited boxes of supplies on a storage rack, which held vials, pipes, and other chemical laboratory supplies but no hazardous materials, according to Assistant Vice President for Communications Dan Day.
A graduate student noticed the fire and called the Department of Public Safety at 1:39 a.m. Firefighters arrived on campus from the town of Princeton, Princeton Junction, the Princeton Plasma Plasma Physics Laboratory, Plainsboro, and Rocky Hill, according to a University statement.The building was briefly closed while firefighters were on scene but has now reopened.
According to Day, there is ‰??a lingering odor in the area of the storage room‰?? that cleanup crews are taking care of.
Water from the sprinkler system dripped from the third to the second floor, getting some papers and computers wet, but a University Facilities crew mopped up the water early in the morning. There was no significant structural or equipment damage in the building from the fire or from smoke, Day said.
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HURRICANE HARVEY‰??S TOXIC EFFECT STILL UNKNOWN
https://www.courthousenews.com/hurricane-harveys-toxic-effect-still-unknown/
Tags: us_TX, industrial, follow-up, environmental, oils
HOUSTON (CN) ‰?? Hurricane Harvey triggered dozens of toxic releases from Houston chemical plants and refineries, and officials say the public health risks are unknown due to Texas‰?? industry-friendly rules that left it up to companies to report such incidents.
Nearly seven months after Harvey struck greater Houston, home to 500 chemical plants and 10 refineries, federal regulators have investigated only ‰??a handful‰?? of the more than 100 toxic releases caused by the hurricane, the Houston Chronicle and Associated Press reported Thursday.
Before Harvey hit the area in late August, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced that companies would not be held liable for storm-related pollution. He also suspended record-keeping rules for environmental contamination.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the state‰??s pollution regulator, told the news outlets it has investigated 89 Harvey-pollution incidents, but it has yet to issue any sanctions or fines.
The TCEQ‰??s chairman Bryan Shaw told state lawmakers in January he could not publicize Harvey chemical and oil spills until his staff finished reviewing them, according to the news report.
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BINMAN ‰??PREPARING FOR WAR' KEPT 250 HOMEMADE BOMBS IN HIS BRISTOL FLAT
http://metro.co.uk/2018/03/23/binman-preparing-war-stockpiled-250-homemade-bombs-bristol-flat-7411678/
Tags: United_Kingdom, public, follow-up, response, explosives
Reeco Fernandez, 29, stashed IEDs and military supplies in a cupboard under the stairs and a garden shed at his parents‰?? home in Bedminster, Bristol.
His arsenal, including modified fireworks, ball bearings and chemicals to make further explosives, was discovered when emergency services were called to the home on September 8, last year.
Neighbours dialled 999 after hearing bangs, a loud boom and seeing smoke billowing from the house.
The noise was the sound of Fernandez unwittingly blowing himself up in his bedroom.
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ARMY SEEKS CHANGES TO CHEMICAL WEAPONS DISPOSAL IN COLORADO
https://wtop.com/national/2018/03/army-seeks-changes-to-chemical-weapons-disposal-in-colorado/
Tags: us_CO, industrial, discovery, environmental, mustard_gas
DENVER (AP) ‰?? The U.S. Army wants to change the way it destroys part of its huge stockpile of obsolete chemical weapons in Colorado, but some people worry that could increase the chances of contamination escaping into the air.
The Army‰??s Pueblo Chemical Depot is eradicating 780,000 shells filled with thick liquid mustard agent ‰?? many of them dating to the Cold War ‰?? under an international treaty banning chemical weapons.
The Army built a highly automated, $4.5 billion plant to do the work, but officials said this week they want to buy two closed detonation chambers for about $30 million each to destroy 97,000 problematic mortar shells. The plant has also experienced a series of setbacks and is currently conducting limited operations while other problems are fixed.
It still has to complete an environmental impact assessment and get state and local permits before proceeding.
The mustard agent in the shells is believed to be contaminated with more rust than originally expected, making it difficult for the plant‰??s robotic equipment to open them, said Greg Mohrman, the project site manager.
If the shells don‰??t open cleanly, workers would have to don protective suits and intervene, Mohrman said. That increases the risk they would be exposed to mustard agent, which can maim or kill by blistering skin, scarring eyes and inflaming airways.
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CZECH EXPLOSION: DEADLY BLAST AT CHEMICAL PLANT
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43497063
Tags: Czech_Republic, industrial, explosion
Six people have been killed in an explosion at chemical plant in the Czech Republic.
The blast happened at a Unipetrol facility in the town of Kralupy nad Vltavou, north of the capital, Prague.
"We have received information about six dead and several others seriously injured," regional fire service spokeswoman Vladimira Kerekova told CTK news agency.
The cause of the explosion is not yet known.
It is thought to have struck at about 10:00 local time (09:00 GMT) on the northern outskirts of the town.
In a brief statement, Unipetrol said a fire broke out in a storage tank and that there was no further danger. Czech TV said there was no risk to residents in Kralupy as the town was some distance from the plant.
Unipetrol is one of the largest oil distributing companies and producer of plastics in the Czech Republic.
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2 HURT IN EXPLOSION AT HP CAMPUS IN CORVALLIS
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/oregon/articles/2018-03-22/2-hurt-in-explosion-at-hp-campus-in-corvallis
Tags: us_or, laboratory, explosion, injuries, hydrogen
CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) ‰?? Authorities say two people were injured in an explosion at the HP Inc. campus in Corvallis.
The Gazette-Times reports that firefighters responded at about 3:30 p.m. Thursday to reports of an explosion on the high-tech campus.
Corvallis Fire Department spokesman Jim Patton says a hydrogen generator exploded inside a laboratory. He did not know what caused the generator to explode.
Patton says the damage was contained to the room where the explosion occurred. He says there was no fire and no toxic or unsafe materials were released.
Patton says paramedics took two people to Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center.
No information was immediately available on their identities or the extent of their injuries.
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CHEMICAL SPILL CLOSES DOWN MACARTHUR BOULEVARD AND FITCH IN IRVINE
https://www.ocregister.com/2018/03/22/chemical-spill-closes-down-macarthur-boulevard-and-fitch-in-irvine/
Tags: us_ca, transportation, release, response, pool_chemicals
A traffic collision at MacArthur Boulevard and Fitch in Irvine on Thursday closed down the intersection for at least two hours while hazardous material teams investigated chemicals that were spilled during the crash.
The Orange County Fire Authority and the Costa Mesa Fire Department both had hazmat teams on scene after a pickup truck collided with a sedan at 2 p.m. The truck was carrying multiple chemical containers, which bounced out and went on to the road, OCFA Capt. Larry Kurtz said.
The chemicals aren‰??t dangerous on their own, Kurtz said, but could be hazardous if they were to mix together.
By 4 p.m., the two hazmat teams were picking up the containers and making sure that none of the liquids had mixed together on the road. The road remained closed during this process.
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