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Wednesday, December 28, 2022 at 6:38:30 AM
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Table of Contents (17 articles)
ABOUT 700 GALLONS OF DIESEL SPILL AT CONSTRUCTION SITE ON THE UPPER WEST SIDE
Tags: us_NY, industrial, release, response, diesel
DH LATEST NEWS, DH NEWS, LATEST NEWS, DEATH, NEWS , ANDHRA PRADESH, FIRE ACCIDENT, 4 PEOPLE KILLED, PHARMA LAB.
Tags: India, industrial, fire, injury, drugs, pharmaceutical
EXPLOSION INJURES 54 AT PAINT MANUFACTURING
Tags: Iran, industrial, explosion, injury, unknown_chemical
NEW MEXICO ALLOCATES GRANTS FROM $32M MINE SPILL SETTLEMENT
Tags: us_NM, public, follow-up, environmental, metals
FIRE RAVAGES THROUGH A TOKYO CHEMICAL FACTORY
Tags: Japan, industrial, fire, injury, unknown_chemical
WHAT ARE ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS?
Tags: public, discovery, environmental, other_chemical
PHOENIX FIRE HAZMAT CREWS CALLED TO CHRISTOWN SPECTRUM MALL FOR GAS LEAK
Tags: us_AZ, public, release, response, natural_gas
HAZMAT SPILL TEMPORARILY CLOSES MAINLANES ON I-10 AT CANE ISLAND PKWY AFTER 5-VEHICLE CRASH IN FORT BEND COUNTY, OFFICIALS SAY
Tags: us_TX, transportation, release, response, unknown_chemical
51 POISONED WITH AMMONIA AFTER A FREIGHT TRAIN DERAILED IN SERBIA – BULGARIANS MUST NOT LEAVE THEIR HOMES!
Tags: Serbia, transportation, release, injury, ammonia, waste
HOMES THAT SURVIVED THE BOULDER COUNTY FIRE HID ANOTHER DISASTER INSIDE – WE TURNED THEM INTO LABS TO STUDY THIS URBAN WILDFIRE HEALTH RISK
Tags: us_CO, public, follow-up, environmental, unknown_chemical
FORMER REFINERY STOPS MEASURING CANCER-CAUSING CHEMICAL
Tags: us_PA, industrial, discovery, environmental, benzene, petroleum
SCOTT APARTMENT COMPLEX EVACUATED BECAUSE OF CHEMICAL SMELL
Tags: us_LA, public, release, response, flammables
4 DEAD, ONE HURT IN VIZAG PHARMA CITY FIRE MISHAP
Tags: India, laboratory, explosion, death, solvent, toluene
NITROSAMINE RISK ASSESSMENTS IN OLIGONUCLEOTIDES
Tags: laboratory, discovery, environmental, pharmaceutical
AIR FORCE SURVEYS FIND FALLING LEVELS OF ‘FOREVER CHEMICALS’ AT FIGHTER BASE IN JAPAN
Tags: Japan, industrial, release, environmental, other_chemical
HAZMAT RESPONDS AFTER SEMI LEAKS HYDROGEN AT TULSA TRUCK STOP
Tags: us_OK, transportation, release, response, hydrogen
UMHLANGA MAIN BEACH REOPENS
Tags: South_Africa, public, follow-up, environmental, pesticides
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ABOUT 700 GALLONS OF DIESEL SPILL AT CONSTRUCTION SITE ON THE UPPER WEST SIDE
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/about-700-gallons-of-diesel-spills-at-construction-site-on-the-upper-west-side/ar-AA15J14F?ocid=hplocalnews
Tags: us_NY, industrial, release, response, diesel
FDNY officials say they received a call around 7 p.m. after approximately 700 gallons of diesel spilled at the construction site located at 36 West 66th Street on the Upper West Side.
Hazmat crews are on the scene.
Fortunately, no injuries were reported.
The leak has since been capped and the issue is being handled by the hazmat crew.
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DH LATEST NEWS, DH NEWS, LATEST NEWS, DEATH, NEWS , ANDHRA PRADESH, FIRE ACCIDENT, 4 PEOPLE KILLED, PHARMA LAB.
https://www.eastcoastdaily.in/2022/12/27/4-people-killed-in-a-fire-at-a-andhra-pradeshs-pharma-lab.html
Tags: India, industrial, fire, injury, drugs, pharmaceutical
flash fire in a room in a manufacturing block of Indian pharmaceutical company Laurus Labs’ plant in Visakhapatnam resulted in the deaths of four of its employees, the company reported on Tuesday.
According to Laurus, ‘one more worker is receiving medical attention in a hospital as a result of the incident that happened on Monday night.’
Without providing any other information on the occurrence, the company, which specialises in anti-retroviral, hepatitis C, and oncology drugs, said it had started an investigation.
Laurus reported that all of its other production units were operating regularly and that it did not anticipate any significant effects on its business.
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EXPLOSION INJURES 54 AT PAINT MANUFACTURING
https://www.powderbulksolids.com/industrial-fires-explosions/explosion-injures-54-paint-manufacturing
Tags: Iran, industrial, explosion, injury, unknown_chemical
An explosion and fire at a paint manufacturing plant in Tabriz, Iran left 54 people injured Monday, according to the Tasnim news agency reported.
The explosion occurred at about noon at the Mamaqan Shahid Salimi Industrial Park, sending 25 people to the hospital, including 10 that were in critical condition. The others were treated at the scene.
Firefighters were working to contain the fire. The cause of the explosion was unknown.
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NEW MEXICO ALLOCATES GRANTS FROM $32M MINE SPILL SETTLEMENT
https://www.gjsentinel.com/news/colorado/new-mexico-allocates-grants-from-32m-mine-spill-settlement/article_c6d99045-56e7-52da-9f72-95a4059a29ea.html
Tags: us_NM, public, follow-up, environmental, metals
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Six entities impacted by the 2015 Gold King Mine spill will share roughly $4 million in grants from a settlement, according to the New Mexico Attorney General’s office.
Outgoing Attorney General Hector Balderas announced earlier this month that nearly $4.3 million will be divided among multiple municipalities and agencies.
The cities of Aztec and Farmington in San Juan County, the San Juan Soil and Water Conservation District, the state tourism department and the New Mexico State University Extension Service will all receive six-figure grants.
To be recipients of the grant program, they submitted a proposal to the New Mexico Attorney General's office.
"Out of tragedy comes hope, and I am honored to award these amazing applicants and their ideas to invest in their own communities,” Balderas said in a statement.
The grant funds come from the overall $32 million settlement reached in June between New Mexico and the U.S. government over the spill that polluted rivers in three western states. The spill released 3 million gallons (11 million liters) of wastewater from the inactive Gold King Mine in southwestern Colorado, sending a bright-yellow plume of arsenic, lead and other heavy metals south to New Mexico, through the Navajo Nation and into Utah through the San Juan and Animas rivers.
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FIRE RAVAGES THROUGH A TOKYO CHEMICAL FACTORY
https://kyma.com/news/national-world/2022/12/27/fire-ravages-through-a-tokyo-chemical-factory/
Tags: Japan, industrial, fire, injury, unknown_chemical
TOKYO, Japan (NBC) - More than a dozen people evacuated after a massive fire rips through a Tokyo chemical factory Tuesday.
13 workers were force to evacuate when a fire broke out at a chemical plant in tokyo today..
One of the workers, a man in his 50s, went to a nearby hospital due to smoke inhalation.
The fire was to have started when workers were trying to manufacture soap in a tank at the plant.
It took more than 60 fire trucks on scene to put out the blaze.
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WHAT ARE ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS?
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/what-are-endocrine-disruptors-140051970.html
Tags: public, discovery, environmental, other_chemical
Your hormones help control different functions in your body and impact everything from your metabolism to how you feel. And if your hormones don't function the way they should, it can affect your health.
Hormone health is a big trend in wellness, according to theTikTok star Hannah Bronfman, who says you'll be hearing a lot more about it in the future. Specifically, she says, addressing endocrine disruptors is the "next big thing." Bronfman says that there are a lot of products about to hit the market that will be labeled "endocrine safe," meaning they're free of endocrine disruptors, which "can be found in just about all the products that we use," including food, toys and beauty products.
Bronfman is far from the first person to use the term "endocrine disruptors," and you've probably come across it at some point before. But you may not necessarily know what that means. So what are endocrine disruptors exactly, and how worried about them should you be? Here's the deal.
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PHOENIX FIRE HAZMAT CREWS CALLED TO CHRISTOWN SPECTRUM MALL FOR GAS LEAK
https://ktar.com/story/5394440/phoenix-fire-hazmat-crews-called-to-christown-spectrum-mall-for-gas-leak/
Tags: us_AZ, public, release, response, natural_gas
PHOENIX — A hazmat situation outside the Christown Spectrum mall prompted evacuations Friday morning, authorities said.
A woman accidentally ran over an above-ground Southwest Gas regulator in the mall parking lot at 19th Avenue and Bethany Home Road, the Phoenix Fire Department said in a press release.
The driver was not injured.
Phoenix Fire’s hazardous materials team evacuated several businesses and isolated the area while working to secure the leak.
Representatives from Southwest Gas also were at the scene, the fire department said.
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HAZMAT SPILL TEMPORARILY CLOSES MAINLANES ON I-10 AT CANE ISLAND PKWY AFTER 5-VEHICLE CRASH IN FORT BEND COUNTY, OFFICIALS SAY
https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2022/12/26/hazmat-spill-closes-mainlanes-on-i-10-at-cane-island-pkwy-after-5-vehicle-crash-in-fort-bend-county-officials-say/
Tags: us_TX, transportation, release, response, unknown_chemical
HOUSTON – Several lanes were closed Monday afternoon following a hazmat spill from a multi-vehicle crash in Fort Bend County, according to Houston TranStar.
The five-vehicle crash, involving a heavy truck, was reported at 1:04 p.m. on IH-10 at Caney Island Parkway.
The cause of the crash is under investigation. It is unknown if any injuries have been reported.
The scene was cleared at 2:02 p.m., according to Houston TranStar.
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51 POISONED WITH AMMONIA AFTER A FREIGHT TRAIN DERAILED IN SERBIA – BULGARIANS MUST NOT LEAVE THEIR HOMES!
https://www.novinite.com/articles/218169/51+Poisoned+with+Ammonia+after+a+Freight+Train+derailed+in+Serbia+%E2%80%93+Bulgarians+Must+Not+Leave+their+Homes%21
Tags: Serbia, transportation, release, injury, ammonia, waste
An ammonia wagon overturned near the Serbian town of Pirot, 51 people were hospitalized, and a state of emergency was declared in the town. It has a sizable Bulgarian minority.
Pirot Mayor Vladan Vasic declared a state of emergency in the town last night after a wagon of a freight train carrying ammonia overturned near Sopotski Khan. During the accident, gas leaked from the carriage and a high concentration of ammonia was released into the atmosphere, as a result of which 51 people were hospitalized with symptoms of poisoning. Due to the state of emergency, schools in Pirot will not be open today.
The wagon of the freight train carrying ammonia overturned around 5:30 p.m. on a section of the railway from Pirot to the village of Stanichene, near Sopotski Khan, the Serbian Interior Ministry said.
RTS reported that the accident occurred when a group of 20 tankers derailed, "at least one of which fell into the riverbed of the Nishava river, which caused a violent reaction of ammonia upon contact with the water." The Emergency Department of the Serbian Interior Ministry confirmed that 51 people with symptoms of ammonia poisoning have been hospitalized so far, two of them with severe symptoms. Seven people were transferred to the University Clinical Center in Nis. They have stable vital signs and mild chemical burns. The Ministry of the Interior urged the citizens who live near the accident not to leave their homes and not to go outdoors.
27 firefighters with 10 fire trucks were sent to the scene. Due to the incident, the railway traffic on this line was stopped. Due to poor visibility, the traffic between Pirot and Bela Palanka on the main road has been interrupted. The alternative route is through the village of Ponor. Second-shift workers at “Tiger Tires” have also been evacuated, and third-shift workers will not come to work.
The company "Serbia Cargo" reported that this is a freight train that runs daily on the Nis-Dimitrovgrad section and transports raw materials from Bulgaria to Prahovo and Shabac. AFP reported that chemical waste from Bulgaria was also transported in the wagons of the derailed train.
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HOMES THAT SURVIVED THE BOULDER COUNTY FIRE HID ANOTHER DISASTER INSIDE – WE TURNED THEM INTO LABS TO STUDY THIS URBAN WILDFIRE HEALTH RISK
https://theconversation.com/homes-that-survived-the-boulder-county-fire-hid-another-disaster-inside-we-turned-them-into-labs-to-study-this-urban-wildfire-health-risk-196926
Tags: us_CO, public, follow-up, environmental, unknown_chemical
On Dec. 30, 2021, one of the most destructive wildfires on record in Colorado swept through neighborhoods just a few miles from our offices at the University of Colorado Boulder. The flames destroyed over 1,000 buildings, yet when we drove through the affected neighborhoods, some houses were still completely intact right next to homes where nothing was left to burn.
Although the people who lived in these still-standing homes were spared the loss of everything they owned, when they returned after the fire, they found another disaster.
Noxious smells and ash on their windowsills and doorways initially made their homes unlivable – and potentially hazardous to human health. Some of these residents were still reporting health problems from being in their homes months later, even after the homes had been cleaned.
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FORMER REFINERY STOPS MEASURING CANCER-CAUSING CHEMICAL
https://whyy.org/articles/philadelphia-former-pes-refinery-site-cancer-causing-benzene-will-not-be-monitored-in-2023/
Tags: us_PA, industrial, discovery, environmental, benzene, petroleum
The company redeveloping the former Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery site in South Philadelphia plans to stop monitoring for benzene at the end of this year.
The cancer-causing chemical has been found at high levels at the property line even after the refinery shut down. Neighbors, advocates, and experts have called for the monitoring to continue.
“One way of showing good faith and that you care about the community is to keep monitoring to see if we’re safe,” said Shawmar Pitts, a managing director of the activist group Philly Thrive who has lived near the refinery all his life.
Benzene is found in things like car exhaust, tobacco smoke, and crude oil, which was processed at the PES refinery before it shut down following an explosion and fire in 2019.
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The massive site is contaminated from more than a century of industrial use, and remediation has been going on for years. The refinery itself is now at least 88% demolished.
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SCOTT APARTMENT COMPLEX EVACUATED BECAUSE OF CHEMICAL SMELL
https://www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/news/crime_police/scott-apartment-complex-evacuated-because-of-chemical-smell/article_9df24336-8545-11ed-b7a1-f7ffacce7e52.html
Tags: us_LA, public, release, response, flammables
According to Chief Chad P. Sonnier, Scott Fire Department was dispatched to the Ile Des Cannes apartment complex around 8 p.m. Sunday because of a chemical smell in the area.
During the investigation, firefighters determined that the bedroom of a downstairs apartment was being utilized as a storage area for an occupant’s lawn service. Several gas cans were also discovered in the room. The vapors from the downstairs apartment spread throughout the fourplex.
Chief Sonnier says Lafayette Fire Department Hazmat Unit was then requested to the scene to determine the severity of the incident. Hazmat personnel determined that the entire fourplex was in danger and needed to be evacuated until the scene was rendered safe.
Hazmat personnel then utilized specialized equipment to remove and/or neutralize the flammable vapors that spread throughout the building.
The fourplex was rendered safe after nearly two hours. Occupants were permitted to reenter their apartment.
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4 DEAD, ONE HURT IN VIZAG PHARMA CITY FIRE MISHAP
https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/in-other-news/261222/4-dead-one-hurtin-vizag-pharma-city-fire-mishap.html
Tags: India, laboratory, explosion, death, solvent, toluene
VISHAKHAPATNAM: Four persons died on the spot and another received serious burn injuries when an explosion followed by fire engulfed the unit 3 of Laurus Laboratory in JN Pharma City on Monday evening.
This comes under Anakapalli district and about 4km from Visakhapatnam.
The dead were Rambabu Bingi (32) of Khammam, Rajesh Babu Talasila (36) of Guntur, Ramakrishna Rapeti (30) of K Kotapadu of Anakapalli district and Majji Venkata Rao (28) of Chodavaram Anakapalli district.
Y Satish of Ranagareddy district, who was seriously injured, has been admitted to a corporate hospital here.
“We have received four bodies from Pharma City,’’ confirmed superintendent of King George Hospital Dr P Mythili.
Deputy inspector factories, V Suresh, said the fire was caused by the leakage of toluene solvent. When the workers were trying to arrest the leakage of toluene, the chemical caught fire.
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NITROSAMINE RISK ASSESSMENTS IN OLIGONUCLEOTIDES
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.oprd.2c00330
Tags: laboratory, discovery, environmental, pharmaceutical
The European Medicines Agency, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and other regulatory agencies expect that all pharmaceutical products be assessed for the potential presence of N-nitrosoamine (nitrosamine) impurities. This white paper addresses general considerations for nitrosamine risk assessments of oligonucleotide products. The authors propose a general risk assessment platform which should facilitate safe, consistent development of new treatments and alignment with regulatory expectations.
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AIR FORCE SURVEYS FIND FALLING LEVELS OF ‘FOREVER CHEMICALS’ AT FIGHTER BASE IN JAPAN
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2022-12-25/misawa-air-base-pfas-japan-defense-spill-8544475.html
Tags: Japan, industrial, release, environmental, other_chemical
Levels of toxic “forever chemicals” in treated industrial wastewater at Misawa Air Base had significantly fallen six months after an inadvertent leak of residual firefighting foam at an aircraft shelter, according to a Japanese defense official and a base spokesman.
A manmade chemical, PFAS, and its components PFOS and PFOA, are found in firefighting foam, also known as aqueous film forming foam, or AFFF, on some U.S. military bases in Japan. Japanese authorities in recent years have tracked similar spills at U.S. bases on Okinawa and in the Tokyo metro area.
A frozen pipe in a hardened aircraft shelter at Misawa in northeastern Japan cracked Jan. 3 and released water through a fire suppression system where the foam was previously kept, base spokesman Lt. Col. Cody Chiles told Stars and Stripes by phone Thursday. Misawa is home to the 35th Fighter Wing.
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HAZMAT RESPONDS AFTER SEMI LEAKS HYDROGEN AT TULSA TRUCK STOP
https://www.newson6.com/story/63a8ba2ba2e4e57cdd4bddbc/hazmat-responds-after-semi-leaks-hydrogen-at-tulsa-truck-stop
Tags: us_OK, transportation, release, response, hydrogen
Tulsa firefighters, Tulsa Police and hazmat crews worked to contain and clean up a chemical spill after a semi truck started leaking hydrogen Sunday afternoon at a truck stop.
The leak happened at the Flying J Travel Center near North 129th East Avenue and East Admiral Place.
Firefighters say one of the pressurized tanks on the trailer started leaking and then pulled into the gas station.
Crews moved the truck to an empty lot nearby so technicians could contain the leak.
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UMHLANGA MAIN BEACH REOPENS
https://www.enca.com/news/umhlanga-main-beach-reopens
Tags: South_Africa, public, follow-up, environmental, pesticides
A picture taken on July 17, 2021 shows the popular uMhlanga Beach north of Durban. South African authorities said Saturday were investigating possible pollution suspected to have been caused by a spill from a chemical plant attacked during last week's riots after dead were washed ashore.
The spill was identified on Thursday after an agro-chemical warehouse storing chemicals used in the production of herbicides, pesticides and fungicides - was set ablaze.
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DURBAN - The eThekwini Municipality has reopened the Umhlanga Main and Umhlanga Bronze beaches.
The decision to re-open the beaches was taken after results from the latest water testing. The tests confirm that the water quality is safe for swimming.
READ: No alcohol allowed on Cape Town beaches
Other beaches that are open for swimming are Point, Ushaka, Addington and South Beach.
Officials will continue to monitor Water quality at all beaches to ensure the safety of residents and visitors.
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