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us_ca: 3 people splashed with unknown chemical in
LA
3 people splashed with
unknown chemical in LA
LOS ANGELES=97Authorities say three people have been
hospitalized after they were splashed with an unknown chemical on a Los
Angeles street.
A Los Angeles fire spokesman
says two women and a man were walking in the Panorama City area in the
San Fernando Valley Thursday night when the incident
occurred.
All were being treated for
burns at a hospital. Authorities say they are in stable
condition.
Their identities have not
been released.
us_ca: Campus plans to fight Cal/OSHA citations / UCLA
Newsroom
Campus plans to fight
Cal/OSHA citations
By Phil
Hampton March 12, 2010
California Division of Occupational Safety and Health
(Cal/OSHA) officials have notified UCLA that the agency is issuing
additional citations regarding lab safety and levying $67,720 in
additional fines.
Campus officials said they are troubled that Cal/OSHA
appears to be jettisoning the conclusions of the agency's previous
report on the same subject and ignoring the far-reaching steps that UCLA
has taken since a tragic lab accident in December 2008. A staff research
associate died in January 2009 from injuries sustained in the chemical
fire.
"We believe many of Cal/OSHA's citations relate to
previous compliance issues and do not reflect current operations and
procedures, especially as they pertain to training," said Kevin Reed,
UCLA vice chancellor for legal affairs. "We intend to vigorously fight
these citations."
us_ms: Fire at Platte, no injuries
Fire at Platte, no injuries
GREENVILLE Officials still don't know what caused Wednesday
night's explosion at Platte Chemical Company that for a brief time sent
flames shooting into the darkened sky. At one point, witnesses from two
miles away reported seeing the fire.
"We're still investigating
what happened," said Riverside Fire Chief Billy Schultz, who reported no
injuries. "We'll be going back over there today and seeing what caused
it. "
The Riverside Fire Department and the Washington
County Sheriff's Department were called to the plant at 917 Platte Road
just after 6 p.m. The Sheriff's Department, with the help of the
Greenville Police Department, closed off Old Leland Road from Beauchamp
Street to Seven Oaks Road. Also closed was Raceway Road from U.S. 82 to
Old Leland Road.
Schultz said as a precaution, residents from a
nearby trailer park and a few residental homes were evacuated.
us_ma: Confession linked TEP to Na injuries - The
Tech
Confession linked TEP to Na
injuries
Brother threw sodium in
Charles
The sodium that exploded in 2007 and injured
volunteers from a Charles River clean up crew was thrown into the river
by Bhaskar Mookerji G, a Tau Epsilon Phi brother, according to public
court documents.
Mookerji confessed that he threw the sodium into the
Charles on or around Sept. 4, 2007. On Sept. 6, river clean-up
volunteers were injured when they found the metal. Mookerji is a current
Course VI graduate student and is a member of the Class of
2009.
Canada: Student in severe condition after
science class blast
Teacher
Shelley Barros was showing the afternoon chemistry class at St.
Marcellinus Secondary School how different chemicals burn when a nearby
Bunsen burner ignited the one-liner beaker of methanol in her hand,
students said.
She dropped the flask onto the work table, scattering
flames onto students in the front row.
Wednesday=92s classroom fire sent five Mississauga teenagers
to hospital, one who remains in critical condition, and sparked a
government investigation into how a routine science experiment went so
horribly wrong.
