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    <title>Use of 3-Dimensional Printers in Educational Settings: The Need for Awareness of the Effects of Printer Temperature and Filament Type on Contaminant Releases</title>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Material extrusion-type fused filament fabrication (FFF) 3-D printing is a valuable tool for education. During FFF 3-D printing, thermal degradation of the polymer releases small particles and chemicals, many of which are hazardous to human health. In this study, particle and chemical emissions from 10 different filaments made from virgin (never printed) and recycled polymers were used to print the same object at the polymer manufacturer’s recommended nozzle temperature (“normal”) and at a temperature higher than recommended (“hot”) to simulate the real-world scenarios of a person intentionally or unknowingly printing on a machine with a changed setting. Emissions were evaluated in a college teaching laboratory using standard sampling and analytical methods. From mobility sizer measurements, particle number-based emission rates were 81 times higher; the proportion of ultrafine particles (diameter <100 nm) were 4% higher, and median particle sizes were a factor of 2 smaller for hot-temperature prints compared with normal-temperature prints (all p-values <0.05). There was no difference in emission characteristics between recycled and virgin acrylonitrile butadiene styrene and polylactic acid polymer filaments. Reducing contaminant release from FFF 3-D printers in educational settings can be achieved using the hierarchy of controls: (1) elimination/substitution (e.g., training students on principles of prevention-through-design, limiting the use of higher emitting polymer when possible); (2) engineering controls (e.g., using local exhaust ventilation to directly remove contaminants at the printer or isolating the printer from students); (3) administrative controls such as password protecting printer settings and establishing and enforcing adherence to a standard operating procedure based on a proper risk assessment for the setup and use (e.g., limiting the use of temperatures higher than those specified for the filaments used); and (4) maintenance of printers.

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    <title>Suits in 2015 CSX, Union Tank derailment coming to a close</title>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A 2018 federal lawsuit filed on behalf of 394 residents suing over a train derailment incident in July 2015 in Maryville is coming to a close.

The case targeted the owner and operator of the train, CSX Transportation Inc., as well as Union Tank Car Co. UTC owned and manufactured the tank car that derailed and caught fire in 2015. A toxic chemical called acrylonitrile started leaking into the ground, and fumes from the burning chemical were sent into the air.

The two sides reached and settled the lawsuit for a confidential sum of money, according to a federal court filing on Aug. 5, 2019.

However, only about 42% of plaintiffs in the case signed the agreement with UTC and CSX, according to a Dec. 3, 2019, federal court filing. After extensive efforts to reach all plaintiffs through mailers, phone calls and three town hall meetings in October at the Blount County Library, 222 people had settled with CSX and 197 plaintiffs settled with Union Tank with 165 litigants not settling with either company.

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    <title>Akron chemical plant that exploded has history of EPA, safety violations</title>
    <dc:date>2018-07-20T09:56:06+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[AKRON, Ohio - Emerald Performance Materials, the company that owns the West Emerling Avenue chemical plant that exploded Wednesday in Akron, was previously forced to pay more than $200,000 in fines as a result of health and safety violations, records show.

An unannounced 2011 inspection by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found the plant in violation of four requirements the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants, including a failure to identify chemical leaks.

The EPA filed a federal suit related to those violations saying Emerald was a "major source" for hazardous air pollutants, or HAPs. "Emerald uses styrene, butadiene and acrylonitrile, which are all HAPs." Those chemicals have been known to contribute to the cause of cancer.

"Emerald failed to identify connectors with an instrument meter reading greater than 500 parts per million as a detected leak," according to the EPA notice issued to the company on Dec. 20, 2011.

The plant also failed to maintain periodic reports, keep records of repairs for two years, or clearly identify leaking equipment with a tag.

As a result of the lawsuit, Emerald Performance Materials was fined $90,070.

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    <title>'Highly toxic' chemical posed significant health risk following Blount County derailment, doctor says</title>
    <dc:date>2018-03-02T12:19:48+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A chemist and medical doctor to whom state and federal agencies have turned for his expertise in toxic substances said a train derailment and chemical fire in Blount County nearly three years ago posed a significant health risk to residents.

The testimony from George C. Rodgers came Thursday in Knoxville’s U.S. District Court on the fourth day of a civil trial over the July 2015 derailment. Six Blount County residents are suing Union Tank Car Co. (UTC), which owned and manufactured the derailed car. They seek over $5 million in property damage and nuisance claims.

Chemical ‘highly toxic’

Rodgers, who obtained a doctorate in chemistry from Yale University and later earned a medical degree from State University of New York (SUNY), said officials rightly established an evacuation zone after a tank car carrying nearly 25,000 gallons of acrylonitrile derailed and caught fire.

“I think clearly there needed to be an evacuation with this,” Rodgers said. “Acrylonitrile is highly toxic.”

When it burns — in this case all 24,710 gallons burned for what’s been indicated in reports as a little over 20 hours — it produces cyanide, carbon monoxide and an irritant called nitrogen dioxide, Rodgers said.

“Acrylonitrile itself, in very low concentrations, is an irritant,” Rodgers said. “If you inhale it, it does damage to your lungs, which can be permanent.”

Furthermore, when the liver metabolizes acrylonitrile, it turns to cyanide, which can be lethal, he said.

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    <title>Area businesses with dangerous chemicals work closely with emergency services on response plans</title>
    <dc:date>2017-12-17T16:02:15+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[WALLINGFORD — Two companies in the area use such large quantities of potentially toxic chemicals that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency requires they submit disaster response plans.

Allnex’s manufacturing plant in Wallingford and Bozzuto’s Inc.’s warehouse in Cheshire are two of 27 facilities in Connecticut required to submit “risk management plans” to the EPA because they exceed a certain threshold of regulated substances, according to a report published by the Connecticut Health Investigative Team this week.

The Allnex plant, 528 S. Cherry St., has to submit a risk management plan because it carries more than 20,000 pounds of acrylonitrile, a chemical used to make medical devices and other plastic products. According to the EPA, short-term exposure to acrylonitrile can cause headaches, dizziness and nausea. The EPA classifies acrylonitrile as a “probable human carcinogen” based on limited evidence in human and rat studies.

Bozzuto’s facilities in Cheshire and North Haven carry more than 10,000 pounds of anhydrous ammonia, a natural refrigerant. Symptoms from inhalation of ammonia anhydrous can range from coughing and headaches to severe shortness of breath, depending on the concentration, according to the EPA.]]></description>
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    <title>Class action lawsuit filed</title>
    <dc:date>2017-10-25T10:31:39+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[PARKERSBURG — Two days after a fire erupted at the former Ames plant, a class action lawsuit was filed Monday in the office of the Wood County Circuit Court clerk.

Kathy A. Brown, an attorney with Brown-Houston PLLC in Charleston,W.Va., filed the suit on behalf of Timothy Callihan and others. Defendants named in the suit are Surnaik Holdings of West Virginia LLC, SirNaik LLC, Polymer Alliance Services LLC, Green Sustainable Solutions LLC and Intercontinental Export Import Inc.

In the filing the plaintiffs are seeking declaratory, injunctive and equitable relief, as well as compensatory and punitive damages, and costs incurred by the plaintiffs for what they term as the “intentional, knowing, reckless and negligent acts and omissions of defendants in connection with their management, operation and occupation” of the former Ames shovel plant on Camden Avenue.

According to the lawsuit, Callihan lives about two miles from the facility on 27th Avenue. At about 1 a.m. Oct. 21 a fire broke out which leveled the 40,000 square feet facility located in a largely residential area.

According to the suit the items in the plant included stryene-acrylonitrile, formaldehyde, titanium dixodie, carbon black and PTFE, also known as Teflon. More than 20 area fire companies in six counties from West Virginia and Ohio responded to the site, the suit states.

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    <title>Blount deputies, Alcoa officers settle suit against CSX in chem fire</title>
    <dc:date>2017-03-01T13:00:44+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[All but one person in a group of Blount County deputies and Alcoa police officers have settled a lawsuit they filed against rail operator CSX Transportation Inc. after a July 2015 chemical spill.

Beecher Bartlett, among the attorneys representing the plaintiffs, told 10News on Monday the settlement between the men and CSX is confidential.

One Blount County Sheriff's Office deputy, Brad Butler, remains a plaintiff against CSX.

All continue in their pursuit of damages against defendant Union Tank Car Co. 

The law officers, many of whom have returned to work, allege they suffered medical problems from exposure while responding to the rail accident late July 1 and early July 2, 2015, in Maryville.

A train tank car ruptured and caught fire, emitting a toxic chemical called acrylonitrile.

The responders allege they had breathing and other health problems after helping evacuate residents in the area.

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    <title>Alcoa officers, Blount County deputies settle lawsuits with CSX over train derailment</title>
    <dc:date>2017-02-26T11:39:30+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[KNOXVILLE — Several Alcoa officers and Blount County deputies who filed suit against CSX Transportation Inc. over a 2015 train derailment in Maryville have dismissed their cases after striking a settlement.

The lawsuit has been pending in Knoxville’s U.S. District Court since August 2015. It was filed on behalf of six Alcoa Police officers and four Blount County Sheriff’s Office deputies exposed to noxious fumes while working in the disaster area of a train derailment and tank car fire on July 2, 2015.

The tank car in question was carrying a toxic chemical called acrylonitrile.

The litigation was filed not only against CSX, which operated the train, but also Union Tank Car Co., the owner of the derailed car.

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    <title>Judge: Emergency responders can sue over train disaster</title>
    <dc:date>2016-07-26T10:35:01+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[MARYVILLE, Tenn. — Police, firefighters and other first responders sign up for inherently dangerous work, but that doesn't give citizens or businesses a blank check to harm them without financial consequences, a federal judge has ruled in the case of a Maryville train derailment.
Chief U.S. District Judge Tom Varlan has turned aside a bid by CSX Transportation Inc. and Union Tank Car Co. to dismiss a class-action lawsuit filed by emergency responders in a July 2015 freight train derailment in Maryville that sent poisonous smoke into the air and more than 100 people to the hospital.
A broken axle on a single rail car hauling 24,000 gallons of a toxic chemical derailed the 57-car train, causing a fire that burned for 19 hours, authorities said.
About 5,000 people in a 2-mile radius in Blount County were forced to evacuate their homes. At least 87 people had to be treated, with 36 admitted to the hospital, and 10 first-responders also required treatment for the effects of exposure to the noxious smoke. A fish kill was later reported, and area wells tested.
The rail car was carrying a chemical, acrylonitrile, used in the manufacture of plastics. The substance is considered carcinogenic, and exposure can burn the skin, inflame the lining of the lungs, throat and nose, and cause headaches, nausea and dizziness. Cyanide is a byproduct of burning acrylonitrile.
Union Tank Car Co. manufactured the rail car at issue. CSX is accused, among other things, of dragging the rail car nearly 10 miles after the axle broke, which, in turn, caused it to rupture and the derailment to occur. Both companies face class-action lawsuits in U.S. District Court from emergency responders in one action, and property owners in another.
The firms wanted the emergency responders' lawsuit tossed out in its entirety, arguing Tennessee has what's known as the Policemen and Firemen's Rule. Under the rule, police and emergency workers are barred from suing citizens and business owners for injuries those responders suffer on the job.
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    <dc:date>2016-07-02T12:38:01+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ARYVILLE (WATE) – Both the Alcoa Police Department and the Blount County Sheriff’s Office had to make changes to some of their policies following their response to last year’s train derailment and fire.

The derailment of a train carrying the toxic chemical acrylonitrile forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes.

Five Alcoa police officers and five Blount County deputies were hospitalized as a result of their exposure to the chemicals. All were released within 24 hours.

Inspections of the Alcoa Police Department and Blount County Sheriff’s Office by the Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration found serious violations resulting in unsafe or unhealthful working conditions. A report obtained through an open records request showed TOSHA initiated an inspection in July 2015 as a result of the derailment. They found that both law enforcement departments had received training on various incident response systems and hazardous waste emergency response standards.

A civilian had called police to report a rail car sparking as it traveled along the tracks. Alcoa and Blount County law enforcement closed the roadways leading into the area. After someone reported the car contained liquid petroleum, a one mile evacuation zone was set up and officers went door to door to alert citizens. This continued for three hours while the evacuation zone continued to grow. At around the three-hour mark, Unified Command increased the evacuation zone and ordered law enforcement to leave upon learning the chemical was not liquid petroleum, but acrylonitrile.

Web Extra: Read the full Alcoa Police Department TOSHA report [PDF]

Police officers said they were evacuating a person with a disability and would leave the evacuation zone and report to Blount Memorial Hospital as soon as they were finished.

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    <title>Chemical levels in affected well growing, but no new wells detected</title>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[(WBIR-Maryville) Officials continue to test wells in the area of a CSX train derailment and chemical fire a week ago in Blount County.

So far, there have been 103 requests to test and monitor wells in the area of concern. Results for 81 of those have been returned, with no further detections of the chemical acrylonitrile.

However, the levels of acrylonitrile in a well closest to the derailment site continue to grow.

"CSX and TDEC continue to aggressively sample and monitor the area. Samples are being tested as quickly as possible and results will be shared as they are confirmed," according to a joint press release from officials in Blount County, Alcoa, and Maryville.

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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Three people remained hospitalized Saturday evening, roughly three days after a train carrying a toxic chemical derailed in Blount County, caught fire and forced 5,000 people from homes within a 2-mile radius.

Blount Memorial Hospital has treated 125 people for varying degrees of respiratory and skin irritation symptoms since the derailment, which happened just before midnight on Wednesday, hospital spokesman Josh West said. Of those patients, 43 were admitted, and three had not been discharged as of Saturday, he said.

The 57-car train owned by CSX was headed from Cincinnati to Waycross, Ga., when a broken axle punctured a tank car hauling 24,000 gallons of acrylonitrile, a toxic chemical used in making plastics, and probably sparked the fire, which was fed by the flammable liquid, authorities said.]]></description>
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    <title>Tank car fire out, but thousands remain evacuated in Blount County</title>
    <dc:date>2015-07-03T11:45:51+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[UPDATE: (WBIR - MARYVILLE) - After burning for hours, the fire in a rail car containing a hazardous liquid finally has been extinguished on a Blount County rail track, according to CSX.


7/2/15. 6 pm coverage of the train derailment in Blount County that caused the evacuation of 5,000 people.

The rail operator said the fire was out by 7 p.m. Thursday. The car carried about 24,000 gallons of Acrylonitrile, a flammable liquid used in various industrial processes including plastic manufacturing.

Thirty-five of the train's 57 cars had been removed as of Thursday night. Twenty-one will be removed once track repairs are made, according to CSX.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Washington (AFP) - A train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in Tennessee and caught fire, prompting a large-scale evacuation, firefighters said Thursday.

The train derailed near Maryville, close to the city of Knoxville, carrying acrylonitrile, a flammable, toxic compound that poses respiratory risks, firefighter Kermit Easterling said.

Some 5,000 residents are being evacuated, and firefighters are going door to door wearing breathing equipment to get people away from the fire, he said.

Firefighters are not battling the flames because of the dangers of acrylonitrile, and hazmat -- hazardous material -- teams have been called in to access the situation.

The train, which is also carrying containers of liquid petroleum gas, derailed just before midnight Wednesday, Easterling said.

There have been no reports of injuries, and a shelter has been set up at a local school for evacuated residents, the firefighter said.]]></description>
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    <title>Stretch of I-59 in Hattiesburg to reopen following chemical spill</title>
    <dc:date>2014-03-13T13:25:59+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Hattiesburg Fire Department firefighters this morning were preparing to reopen a stretch of I-59 near U.S. 11 that was blocked off following a chemical spill Tuesday night.

The northbound and southbound lanes are being cleaned this morning, with plans to reopen before noon a radius of about one-fourth to one-half mile around the site where an 18-wheeler hauling the volatile, flammable chemical acrylonitrile overturned at Exit 60.

Authorities also closed U.S. 11 near exit 60, Hattiesburg Fire Department Battalion Chief Tony Patterson told local media.

There were no injuries when the tanker overturned. Acrylonitrile is a highly flammable liquid that

Tony Patterson said that the roads will not be open until the morning and advised motorists to avoid the area.

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    <title>Adrift at sea: Fire-hit tanker in North Asia shows flaws in safe-haven rules</title>
    <dc:date>2014-02-12T12:18:11+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A fire-ravaged ship loaded with hazardous chemicals has become a maritime football in the north Pacific, with Japan and South Korea unwilling to give it refuge even though they risk a wider environmental disaster if it sinks.

The plight of the Maritime Maisie, a chemical tanker which has spent seven weeks being towed in waters between the two Asian neighbors, highlights the lack of global consensus on designating ports as safe-havens for ships in distress.

The two countries are worried about the risk of a spill or environmental pollution at port, sources said.

The tanker, a 44,000 deadweight-ton vessel the size of nearly two football fields, collided with another ship nine nautical miles off Busan, South Korea, on December 29, said Ying Jinghua, fleet director of MSI Ship Management, which manages the tanker's day-to-day operation, and other shipping sources.

The accident caused a fire when a cargo tank holding the chemical acrylonitrile ruptured. The ship, owned by Aurora Tankers, part of Singapore's IMC Group, was carrying 29,337 metric tons of acrylonitrile, used to make plastics and synthetic rubber, and other chemicals, Ying and the sources said.]]></description>
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    <title>The cost of EPA's chemical removal</title>
    <dc:date>2013-11-02T13:50:38+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An Environmental Protection Agency hazardous chemical removal at a bankrupt Albany company will cost somewhere between $125,000 and $180,000 in Superfund money, said a federal worker.

“The dust hasn’t completely settled yet. It will be at least three weeks before we get any firmer figures,” said Dan Heister, EPA on-scene coordinator.

On Oct. 21, the agency removed more than 3,000 gallons acrylonitrile left behind by Absorbent Technologies at its plant on Queen Avenue S.W.

The company finalized its bankruptcy plans on Oct. 11 and left its facilities, including potentially hazardous chemicals.

Heister said the government will attempt to recover costs from the company.

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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A smoldering fire in a piece of equipment at the BASF plant on Wilroy Road on Monday morning resulted in a hazardous materials response by Suffolk emergency crews.

City firefighters, rescue personnel and police responded at about 10:56 a.m. to a report of a fire in the company’s Acrylamide processing plant.

A fire alarm and automatic shutdown were activated when sensors indicated a rise in the temperature of a thermal oxidizer pollution control device, according to Patrick Hochstrasser, BASF’s Suffolk site manager.

The plant was shut down and its personnel were evacuated to another location on the BASF site while company and city emergency workers extinguished the fire.

“There were no employee exposures or injuries, and air monitoring results at the plant site and along the fence line were normal,” Hochstrasser said in a press release late Monday. “Damage was minimal.”

The smoldering thermal oxidizer would have released some volume of acrylonitrile, a chemical that is listed by the National Fire Protection Association as being flammable, reactive and toxic.

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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[PIEDMONT — A truck stop off Interstate 85 in Piedmont was closed for several hours Wednesday while a hazardous materials team tried to plug a chemical leaking from a tanker truck, firefighters said.



Anderson County Fire Chief Billy Gibson identified the chemical that closed Pilot Travel Centers at Exit 35 as acrylonitrile, a polymer used in the making of plastics and resins.

No injuries were reported.

The truck center at that exit includes a McDonald’s Restaurant, which was also temporarily closed.

A truck driver discovered the leak and reported it after parking his rig overnight at the truck stop, Gibson said. The leak could be linked to a valve and could have been caused by too much pressure, he said.]]></description>
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    <title>us_sc: Minor Injuries Reported After Chemical Spill In Anderson Co.</title>
    <dc:date>2010-05-27T01:37:33+00:00</dc:date>
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EMS and Anderson Fire Officials treated a firefighter for heat exhaustion while hospital officials treated a gas station employee for chemical exposure after a truck driver found an acrylonitrile leak Wednesday morning.

The leak, reported at a 110 Frontage Road Pilot truck stop off exit 36 from I-85, shut down the truck stop for hours as officials patched it and cleaned up.

The driver discovered the leak after sleeping in his tanker truck carrying the chemical when he woke up Wednesday morning.

He put a bucket under the leak, which Anderson Fire Chief Billy Gibson said a valve caused, and called first responders.

Anderson County’s Hazmat Team responded, along with Anderson Fire, EMS and the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office.

A gas station maintenance worker came in contact with the chemical. Gibson said the chemical causes a burning sensation and irritation.]]></description>
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