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Chemical Safety headlines from Google
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UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. - A freight train
derailed and sideswiped another on the banks of Puget Sound, sending
some cars carrying a hazardous chemical careening off the rails near the
water, officials said.
Fourteen
cars derailed Saturday night and most were empty, but four were tankers
carrying sodium hydroxide, or lye, BNSF spokesman Gus Melonas said. The
chemical is used in industry and to regulate the pH levels of water but
can be hazardous and cause breathing problems and
burns.
None of the chemical appears
to have gone into the water, Melonas said.
No one was injured in the derailment, which occurred
about 8:30 p.m. near the Chambers Bay Golf Course in University Place,
13 miles south of Tacoma in Pierce County, .
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LYNDHURST
-- The Valero gas station on Mayfield Road has reopened Sunday
afternoon, after a gas spill closed the station Sunday
morning.
The fire department and Hazmat responded to the scene
where the gas tank came of a truck, spilling nearly 30 gallons of gas
from the tank.
The gas has been cleaned up and the area has been
deemed safe.
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WHDH-TV -
CREWS CLEAN UP OIL SPILL IN NEW BEDFORD HARBOR, http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/
local/12003654497978/crews-clean-up-oil-spill-in-new-bedford-harbor/
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. -- Crews worked to clean up an
oil spill in New Bedford Harbor Sunday morning.
A fishing
boat malfunctioned and began leaking fuel.
The sheen
from the oil could clearly be seen on the water's
surface.
A hazmat team quickly moved in and prevented the spill
from spreading.
They are calling the incident "minor" and said it's
all under cont
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CHEMICAL
SPILL DISCOVERED IN LA VERGNE | DNJ.COM |
THE DAILY NEWS JOURNAL, http://www.dnj.com/article/20110226/NEWS01
/102260321/1002/Chemical+spill+discovered+in+La+Vergne
