Tags: us_SC, publi
c, release, response, dye
About a dozen employees evacuated a dye plant in Greenvi
lle early today after a steam line dripped onto a dry chemical, forming a va
por cloud, said Parker Deputy Fire Chief Mack Giles. Firefighters were calle
d to Southern Weaving at 1005 W.
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Tags: India, industrial, fire, respons
e, unknown_chemical
Two fires, including a major one at a chemical product storag
e facility located in outer Delhi's Pehladpur Bangar area, broke-out on Thu
rsday afternoon, fire officials said. The blaze at the chemical godown, t
he cause of which is yet to be ascertained, occurred at 3.10pm and
at least 30 fire tenders
were dispatched to douse it. At the end of a five-hour fire-fighting ope
ration, fire officials claimed no casualties were reported.
"The facility is spread over 1,0
00 square yards and serves as a storage-cum-decanting area. It is under cont
rol and has been contained," said AK Sharma, director, Delhi Fire Services (
DFS).
Th
e second fire incident was reported from an apparel showroom located in sout
h Delhi's bustling South Extension Part 2 at 12.10pm. According to DFS o
fficials, the incident occurred when a motorcycle parked adjacent to the ret
ail showroom caught fire.
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Tags: us_NY, laboratory,
release, response, solvent, styrene
POTSDAM =E2=80=93 A chemical spill in a labo
ratory at Clarkson University=E2=80=99s Center for Advanced Materials Proces
sing (CAMP) prompted an evacuation of the center, a response by emergency wo
rkers, and one person sent to the hospital.
An employee spilled a solvent, styren
e monomer, at about 12:10 p.m. Thursday, in a laboratory. <
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The university say
s that the employee initiated appropriate protocols for the spill, the build
ing was evacuated, and the Potsdam Fire Department, the Potsdam Police Depar
tment, Potsdam Volunteer Rescue Squad, and Parishville Rescue Squad responde
d, along with the university's own emergency response team.
The employee was taken t
o the hospital for evaluation as a precaution.
The spill has been remediated, and
air handlers for the building are addressing the residual smell, according t
o university authorities.
Employees with offices in the CAMP building were dismiss
ed for the day. All students were asked to remain out of the building. There
are no classes, as the university is between semesters.
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Tags: us_TN, laboratory, release, response, freo
n
NASHV
ILLE, Tenn. -- A cloud of chemical smoke on Vanderbilt University's campus
Thursday morning was caused by a Freon leak, according to the Metro
Fire Department.
There was a report of a fire on a high-rise laboratory building o
n campus at about 6:45 a.m. Firefighters didn't find a blaze, but d
id find smoke coming from an eighth-floor broom closet. The smoke was described as acidic in
nature. There were no reports of injuries.
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Tags: Cana
da, laboratory, explosion, injury, unknown_chemical
No injuries reported at chem la
b incident
A minor chemical spill at the University of Western Ontario sent one gra
duate student to hospital for precautionary reasons. No injuries were record
ed.
Th
e student was working in a basement lab of the school=E2=80=99s chemistry bu
ilding when a small explosion reportedly occurred. It is unclear which chemi
cals were involved in the incident, but London=E2=80=99s emergency services a
nd Western=E2=80=99s hazardous materials team responded after a call was pla
ced at about 10:30 a.m.
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Tags: us_MN, industrial, expl
osion, injury, nitric_acid
FRIDLEY, Minn. =E2=80=94 Chemicals mixed at a plating fa
cility in Fridley set off a small explosion Tuesday that burned three employ
ees and prompted the building's brief evacuation, authorities said.
The "flash ex
plosion" occurred shortly after 11 a.m. at Incertec Plating on 83r
d Avenue NE., just west of University Avenue, police said. The three employees, all
men, were splashed with acid. They were rinsed by firefighters at the scene
, then taken to a hospital, where they were treated for their injuries and r
eleased, the company said.
Fire Chief John Berg said it was not known what caused t
he chemicals to explode. He identified them as phosphoric and nitric acid.
Minneso
ta OSHA was notified and will investigate.
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Tags: us_O
H, industrial, fire, response, unknown_chemical
TOLEDO, OH (WTOL) - Firefight
ers called in a hazmat crew early Wednesday after discovering a chemical spi
ll while putting out a commercial fire in south Toledo. It happened at Brent Indu
stries on South Avenue near Westwood.
Crews quickly put out a small fire inside th
e building. While working the scene, they noticed a purplish-brown colored s
ubstance leaking out the side of a 55-gallon drum.
Hazmat responded to remove the s
ubstance.
No one was hurt.
Investigators report Brent Industries cleans gloves and uses m
any different chemicals.
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Tags: us_MD, public, fire, injury, cleaners
PASAD
ENA
Va
por burns man
Someone trying to clear a drain at home in Pasadena Tuesday night&
nbsp;combined chemicals that created toxic fumes that burned him, county fir
e officials said.
He apparently
had put drain cleaner in the drain, then followed it with chlorine bleach. T
he two chemicals reacted, creating a vapor and burning the man.
He was taken to th
e Johns Hopkins-Bayview Burn Center with serious but not life-threatening in
juries, Division Chief Michael Cox said.
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Tags: us_OR
, public, release, injury, unknown_chemical
MILWAUKIE, Ore. - A hazardous materia
l has escaped from a company called Precision Castparts and emergency respon
ders are reportng there is a toxic cloud in the area. Officials are urging r
esidents within a half-mile of the company to shut their doors and windows a
nd stay inside while the situation continues.
At one time Wednesday evening, o
fficials were considering expanding that half-mile radius but then decided i
t wouldn't be necessary. They said people who live within the half-mile radi
us can come home but they should go directly inside.
Two firefighters and two employ
ees were taken to the hospital to be treated for respiratory problems while r
esponding to the incident.
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Tags: us_CA
, transportation, release, environmental, corrosives, waste
PITTSBURG, Calif. -- A m
inor train derailment in Pittsburg has resulted in a hazardous materials spi
ll, a Contra Costa Hazardous Materials program spokesman said.
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The derailment was
reported at about 12:30 p.m. in the area of Cornwall Street, said
Randy Sawyer, the county's chief environmental health and hazardous materia
ls officer.
Sawyer said the train car that derailed was carrying waste from the Tes
oro refinery that included sodium sulfide and sodium hydroxide.
He said the mix is
"very corrosive and very caustic," but that residents are not believed to b
e in danger.
"It doesn't look to be that major at this time and we don't expect any o
ff-site impacts, but there may be road closures in the area," Sawyer said.
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Tags: us_CA
, transportation, release, response, batteries
Traffic was snarled Wednesday afte
rnoon when two batteries fell from a truck at 17th and G streets at
the on-ramp to state Route 94 in downtown San Diego.
The incident occurred shortly
after 2 p.m. A hazardous-materials crew was sent to neutralize the
acid with a soda-ash solution, a San Diego Fire-Rescue Department dispatche
r said.
A driver hit one of the batteries and ruptured it, but no one was injured.<
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Tags: us_NJ, transportation, release, injury, ag_chems, p
esticides
A five-vehicle crash Tuesday night on Route 70 in Medford seri
ously injured one man and closed the highway for four hours.
Medford police said Bria
n T. Burgess, 47, of New Road in Southampton, was driving a pickup east
on Route 70 in the area of Chester Avenue about 5:52 p.m. when he
smashed into the last of a string of vehicles stopped in front of him. The i
mpact pushed three vehicles into cars in front of them. <
br>"There was a che
mical combustion in one of the plastic drums, which resulted in an explosion
that could be heard several kilometres away. The fire then spread to the ot
her containers, which also had chemicals in them. More than 35 containers mu
st have been destroyed in the fire,=" said Mohan Naik, station office
r, City and Industrial Development Corporation of Maharashtra Ltd.
Naik added that
they were not aware which chemicals were stored there, as the authorities h
ave not informed them yet.
More than 15 fire tenders were used to douse the fire.
However, fire brigade officials could control it by late evening. "
Though the fire is under control now, we don=E2=80=99t know how long it will
take us to douse it,=" said Naik.
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