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Derailing fish health
Public health was a valid concern Monday when 13 cars of an 84-car Norfolk Southern train derailed from the tracks in East Deer beside Freeport Road and plunged into the Allegheny River. As a result of the mishap, two railroad tanker cars carrying hazardous chemicals landed upside down in the Allegheny River near the New […]
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Neighborhood saved by water
East Deer residents were spared a deadly environmental disaster in their back yards Monday when a derailed tanker leaked its toxic contents into the river instead of the air. The train car, which holds 15,000 to 20,000 gallons, contained a compressed gas called anhydrous hydrogen fluoride. Released into the air, hydrogen fluoride gas can cause […]
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Toxic gas leak
EAST DEER — About 200 township residents evacuated Monday when a derailed tanker leaked a toxic gas into the Allegheny River might not be allowed to return to their homes until sometime Wednesday. Anhydrous hydrogen fluoride gas leaking from the derailed, overturned and submerged tanker can, if released into the air, cause eye, nose and […]
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Train Derailment Causes Hundreds Of Evacuations In Pa.
EAST DEER TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A train derailed in East Deer Township at about 6 a.m. Monday and emergency crews evacuated some homes in the area. At least 13 of the 83 cars on the Norfolk Southern train derailed and eight of those cars were carrying hazardous materials, according to officials. Reports from the scene […]
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Poisonous acid leakage controlled in east China
HANGZHOU, May 17 (Xinhuanet) — Police and relief workers had controlled by Monday morning a poisonous hydrofluoric acid leakage from a tank truck on a highway in east China’s Zhejiang province, and no casualties were reported, sources from the local government said. Traffic police officers said that the leak happened at 5:05 p.m.Sunday when the […]
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Warning on danger of stolen power pole rods
TASMANIAN public health authorities warned last night of the potentially lethal dangers associated with stolen Aurora power pole rods. About 100 of the Preschem pole saver rods were stolen from locked panniers in an Aurora pole tester’s vehicle parked in the locked yard at his Gagebrook home on April 20. Dr Roscoe Taylor, the director […]
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Yellowstone Elk Die Early from Excessive Fluoride
Newswise — Elk that graze near the hot pools and geysers of Yellowstone National Park are dying about five years earlier than elk that live elsewhere in the park, says Robert Garrott, ecology professor at Montana State University-Bozeman. Blame it on fluoride. Fluoride is found naturally in the park, and elk take it in every […]
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Hydrofluoric acid suspected in worker’s death
GRESHAM — Oregon OSHA has cited and fined a Southeast Portland company for seven serious health and safety violations in the July death of a 22-year-old Gresham man. On July 3, Timothy P. Smith Jr. died at Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital & Medical Center in Portland nearly a month after he inhaled material in a […]
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Area evacuated over gas leak fear
SHIZUOKA (Kyodo) Thousands of Shizuoka residents were evacuated from their homes on Tuesday due to a possible leakage of poisonous gas from a paper-making factory. But local authorities later lifted the order after alleviating the danger. The municipal government ordered about 18,000 people living within 1 km of the Tomoegawa Paper Co. factory in the […]
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Plant workers flee acid threat
EXETER – A hydrofluoric acid spill early Tuesday morning at the Osram Sylvania manufacturing plant required the plant to be evacuated while hazardous-materials crews worked to decontaminate the area. No one was injured by the leaking acid, which wafted through the building in a cloud-like formation. The two employees who were working in the area […]
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