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    <title>No injuries reported in explosion at Université de Moncton lab</title>
    <dc:date>2023-03-26T11:29:07+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Firefighters responded to the Université de Moncton Saturday morning after a small explosion in one of the university's labs.

Moncton Fire Department responded to the university's science building and found a small fire linked to some laboratory equipment.

Platoon Chief Keith Guptill said the department was investigating if the fire was linked to a malfunction with a machine that separates water into hydrogen and oxygen.

The fire was quickly extinguished and no injuries have been reported.

An investigation is underway.]]></description>
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    <title>Banksmeadow, Sydney: Chemical manufacturing plant catches fire</title>
    <dc:date>2023-02-28T11:49:34+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Businesses and homes were evacuated after a fire at a chemical plant threatened to collapse a cooling tower, triggering fears of a “a significant fire and explosion.”
Significant structural damage to the timber reinforcing the cooling tower sparked concerns the tower itself could collapse and cause a larger explosion.

“If it had given way, the structure would have likely fallen onto six trailers, each storing 1700 cubic metres of potentially-explosive hydrogen,” Fire and Rescue NSW said.

“If the tower did collapse on these hydrogen tanks we could be talking about a significant fire and explosion ... in the area.”

Firefighters rigged a tractor to each trailer and relocated them to a safe location one by one to remove the explosion risk, which was completed by late afternoon.

Local businesses and homes were advised to evacuate during the operation.

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    <dc:date>2023-02-18T12:19:44+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — A NASA safety panel, while congratulating the agency on a successful Artemis 1 mission, said it was worried about the agency’s safety culture and workforce as it prepares for the first crewed Artemis flight.

The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, in its annual report issued earlier this month, praised NASA for a successful Artemis 1 uncrewed test flight in late 2022. The mission, featuring the first launch of the Space Launch System rocket, sent the Orion spacecraft to the vicinity of the moon and back, splashing down three and a half weeks after liftoff.

“The historic launch and landing of Artemis I is a clear success,” the panel wrote in its report. “The mission was a tremendous milestone for NASA and represents years of focus and preparation by the overall NASA and supporting contractor workforce.”

However, later in the report the panel raised questions about the agency’s overall safety culture, particularly as it applies to the Artemis series of missions.

“The Panel is concerned that NASA’s concerted attention to a healthy safety culture may have diminished, leaving NASA vulnerable to the same flaws that contributed to previous failures. This concern was heightened by the circumstances surrounding NASA’s decision to scrub the Artemis I launch in early September,” it stated.

That was a reference to a problem during the second attempt to launch the Artemis 1 mission Sept. 3. NASA officials said at the time an “inadvertent overpressurization” of a liquid hydrogen line damaged a seal, causing a large leak of liquid hydrogen that scrubbed the launch. They speculated that human error caused the overpressurization.

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    <title>No injuries after hydrogen leak at N.S. power plant in Cape Breton</title>
    <dc:date>2023-01-10T11:28:48+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Emergency crews were called to a report of a hydrogen leak at Nova Scotia Power’s Lingan Generating Station around 12:30 p.m. Monday.

The Scotchtown Volunteer Fire Department, along with Cape Breton Regional Police and a hazmat team responded to the facility in Lingan, N.S., and quickly closed the two roads to and from the plant to the public.

Nova Scotia Power spokesperson Jacqueline Foster confirmed there was a hydrogen leak from a cooling system outside the station.

The scene has been cleared after what fire officials confirm was a hydrogen leak at the Lingan Power Plant today. Scotchtown’s fire chief adds there were no injuries & no damage. ⁦@CTVAtlantic⁩ pic.twitter.com/0iNoDm5ibh

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    <title>Hazmat Responds After Semi Leaks Hydrogen At Tulsa Truck Stop</title>
    <dc:date>2022-12-26T12:43:03+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[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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    <title>Pologruto: State fire marshal investigating explosion at MSU chemistry building</title>
    <dc:date>2022-12-01T11:40:08+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[MURRAY – The Kentucky state fire marshal’s office will be investigating a chemical explosion that occurred in a Murray State University chemistry lab Tuesday, according to Murray Fire Chief Eric Pologruto.

Shortly before 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Murray State’s social media accounts said MSU Police were responding to a “chemical leak” at the chemistry building, Jesse D. Jones Hall. The post said emergency responders were on the scene, and people were warned to stay out of the area until further notice. Almost two hours later, the university said there was “no immediate danger” to the chemistry building at that time, and the outdoor area of the Gene W. Ray Science Campus was open again. The three science complex buildings remained closed for the rest of the day, canceling classes there.

Tuesday evening, the university’s social media accounts posted another update, saying that three individuals who had been inside the building had been treated at Murray-Calloway County Hospital before being released. Classes were back in session Wednesday, but the university said there would be no laboratory activities in the chemistry building that day.

Pologruto said the initial call to the Murray Fire Department came in as a fire alarm, but firefighters learned more when they arrived at the scene.

“When we had been there for maybe a few minutes, someone actually walked up to one of our drivers of the fire truck, one of the pump operators who was still outside, and informed them, ‘Hey, there's actually been an explosion inside,’” Pologruto said. “It kind of caught everyone off guard a little bit since they were originally going there for what they thought was just a fire alarm. The fire alarm system did go off; however, the fact that we were there when we were told there was actually an explosion changed everything for us pretty quick.

“We got some more background information and found out that a chemistry class was going on when the explosion occurred, and then that turned it into a hazardous materials call for us. So we had to get our HAZMAT trailer and our HAZMAT technicians to the scene to mobilize our hazardous materials team. Our initial efforts were focused on evacuation of the building, and once we achieved that, we met with the chemistry professors that were in charge. I found out a little bit more about the chemical that was involved, and from there, we developed a plan on how we thought best to neutralize the chemical that was there and to ventilate the area to ensure that we didn't have any secondary explosions. We did that alongside the professors and we were able to render the scene safe.”

Pologruto said the chemical involved was lithium aluminum hydride.

“It’s a common chemical that they use in labs, but the byproduct of that when it's heated is hydrogen gas,” Pologruto said. “It’s not an atypical substance that they use in the lab, and according to the professors, they use it all the time for their experiments and lab work education. They just had a problem with it this time. Thankfully (it only resulted in a minor injury).”

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    <title>Explosion catapulted machinery through chemical factory ceiling</title>
    <dc:date>2022-09-13T10:20:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/explosion-catapulted-machinery-through-chemical-25000861</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A Widnes chemical manufacturer has been fined £120,000 after safety errors meant one of its chemical reactors exploded.

Pieces of heavy machinery were thrown as far as 25 metres away from CatAlloy’s premises after an explosion took place back in 2015.

The blast, later found to be caused due to a build up of hydrogen, meant the area around the business’s Moss Bank Road had to be cordoned off after it took place on December 3 of that year.

A judge at Liverpool Crown Court today said it was only good luck that no one was injured or killed after the explosion as he handed the company’s owners a hefty fine and ordered them to pay prosecution costs.

Nigel Lawrence KC, prosecuting, told Liverpool Crown Court this morning that CatAlloy produces a nickel catalyst, a product required in chemical industries.

The chemical process used to create it takes place in a reactor and causes hydrogen to be produced, something which could be explosive in high amounts. To guard against the risk of a blast, nitrogen is supposed to be fed into the reactor. However, on the day of the explosion a series of failures meant this did not happen.

A large explosion then took place that morning, throwing pieces of equipment, some of which were as heavy as 184kgs, through the building’s ceiling. Some came to rest 20 to 25 metres away from the building.

No one was injured in the blast. However, a similar explosion in November 2011 saw one worker suffer minor injuries. A separate set of court proceedings following that explosion had concluded just three months before the second explosion and saw the business fined £80,000 and ordered to pay £80,000 in costs.

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<dc:subject>United_Kingdom industrial follow-up environmental hydrogen</dc:subject>
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    <title>Process Safety Beacon: “What Happens If?” An Important Question for Hazard Reviews</title>
    <dc:date>2022-05-09T11:03:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.aiche.org/resources/publications/cep/2022/may/process-safety-beacon-what-happens-if-important-question-hazard-reviews</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On May 3, 2019, operators at a plant in Waukegan, IL, were performing a batch operation, manually adding and mixing chemicals in a tank inside a building. An operator pumped an incorrect chemical into the tank. That chemical was incompatible with a chemical already in the tank. The chemicals reacted after they were mixed, and the tank contents foamed and overflowed from the tank top opening. The reaction produced highly flammable hydrogen gas that was released into the building. The hydrogen ignited, and the explosion destroyed the building, killing four employees.

The incompatible chemical was stored in a 55-gal blue plastic drum identical to drums containing the correct chemicals. The only differentiating markings were small labels on the drums and bung caps. The company did not have a written procedure requiring employees to segregate incompatible chemicals in the production building or remove containers after use. In March 2019, two months before this incident, the company had a near-miss involving two chemicals stored in similar 55-gal blue metal drums, in which the wrong material was added to a batch from similar drums. To avoid confusion from similar containers, the company developed a procedure for two people to verify material identity before addition.

This company assessed product manufacturing operations using a technical service request (TSR), which evaluated business and safety risks. However, the TSR did not assess hazards of process operations or establish safeguards, nor was it intended to.

During the incident, workers recognized that a process upset had occurred when the tank overflowed and a fog formed. However, the workers did not recognize the immediate hydrogen hazard created by the upset, which was noted on the safety data sheet (SDS) for the input material.

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<dc:subject>us_IL industrial follow-up death hydrogen</dc:subject>
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    <title>Chemical Safety Board calls for regulatory reform of OSHA, EPA standards on reactive chemicals</title>
    <dc:date>2022-05-05T10:11:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.safetyandhealthmagazine.com/articles/22548-chemical-safety-board-calls-for-regulatory-reform-of-osha-epa-standards-on-reactive-chemicals</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Washington — “It is past time for regulators to fully recognize the hazards presented by reactive chemicals,” Chemical Safety Board Chair and CEO Katherine Lemos said in a video that calls on OSHA and the Environmental Protection Agency to strengthen their standards on these substances.

The 15-minute video, released on April 28, details the agency’s investigation of a fatal May 2019 incident at AB Specialty Silicones in Waukegan, IL. An explosion and fire at the manufacturing plant killed four workers. CSB determined that two incompatible chemicals were mixed during production of an emulsion product, producing flammable hydrogen gas that triggered the explosion.

In the video, lead investigator Vonzella Vincent says AB Specialty Silicones lacked a process safety management program at the time of the incident.

“In processes that rely on operators to gather and mix chemicals, it is critical that companies reduce the risk of human error by making it easy to do the job right and hard to do the job wrong,” Vincent says. “In this case, that could have been as simple as having written procedures that specify storing incompatible chemicals in separate areas and in different-colored containers.”

CSB offers multiple recommendations.

To OSHA:

Amend the standard on process safety management of highly hazardous chemicals (1910.119) to achieve more comprehensive control of reactive hazards that could have catastrophic consequences.
Augment the process hazard analysis element of the standard to explicitly require an evaluation of reactive hazards.
To EPA:

Revise the accidental release prevention requirements to explicitly cover catastrophic reactive hazards that have the potential to seriously impact the public, including those resulting from self-reactive chemicals and combinations of chemicals and process-specific conditions.
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<dc:subject>us_WA public follow-up death flammables hydrogen</dc:subject>
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    <title>Cornerstone Chemical Plant in Jefferson Parish reports small fire</title>
    <dc:date>2022-02-18T11:16:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.wdsu.com/article/jefferson-parish-cornerstone-chemical-fire/39121052</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[JEFFERSON PARISH, La. —
Fire officials responded to a small fire at a chemical company in Jefferson Parish Thursday morning.

According to Jefferson Parish officials, Cornerstone Chemical Company had a small fire from a malfunction at the facility.

An explosion occurred at 4:45 am this morning when a high pressure hydrogen gas pipe burst igniting the gas causing a fire.

The Live Oak Manor Fire Department was notified but the fire extinguished itself because the shut-off valves on each end of the breech isolated the hydrogen feed.

The fire is out, nothing was released, and hazmat crews were notified, according to a news release issued by Jefferson Parish officials.

Residents near the plant were notified via the Cornerstone Emergency Notification System that the loud noise associated with the explosion was contained onsite the community was safe because no chemicals were released into the atmosphere.

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<dc:subject>us_LA industrial explosion response hydrogen</dc:subject>
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    <title>Hydrogen Safety Fundamentals</title>
    <dc:date>2022-01-03T11:33:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.aiche.org/resources/publications/cep/2021/december/hydrogen-safety-fundamentals</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As the number of producers and end-users of hydrogen grows, so too does the importance of its safe handling and use.

Hydrogen use has dramatically increased in recent years, especially as it has grown in popularity as a transportation fuel. Although hydrogen has been used in industry for decades, its use as a fuel for vehicles or for stationary power generation in consumer environments is relatively new (1). Hydrogen is traditionally used to make ammonia for fertilizer, remove sulfur in fuels in oil-refining processes, manufacture silicon chips, and hydrogenate oils in the food industry. It is also a common reactant and byproduct in the specialty chemical and pharmaceutical industries.

Many chemicals have inherent risks that must be managed, and hydrogen is no exception. If managed appropriately, hydrogen can present less risk than other fuel sources. For example, hydrogen is nontoxic. And, because hydrogen is lighter than air, it dissipates rapidly when it is released, unlike hydrocarbon-based fuels. However, although it is a commonly used and understood molecule, hydrogen presents unique safety challenges. Therefore, it is important for every engineer and facility support specialist to know and understand how to identify and mitigate hazards presented by hydrogen.]]></description>
<dc:subject>industrial discovery environmental hydrogen</dc:subject>
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    <title>Chemical Safety Board finalizes two fatal accident investigations</title>
    <dc:date>2021-09-29T10:22:31+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board on Sept. 24 approved two final reports on accidents that killed six workers. The reports were critical of AB Specialty Silicones of Waukegan, Illinois, where four workers were killed May 3, 2019, and an Evergreen Packaging paper mill in Canton, North Carolina, where two workers died Sept. 21, 2020.
The silicones plant was making a silicon hydride emulsion when a flammable vapor cloud developed and ignited, causing an explosion and fire. In addition to the deaths, a fifth employee was seriously injured. The CSB found that workers inadvertently mixed several incompatible chemical compounds that were stored near each other in nearly identical drums, generating hydrogen gas that ignited.
The facility lacked an adequate ventilation system and a working alarm system, the CSB noted.
At the meeting announcing the reports, CSB chairperson Katherine Lemos said that reactive chemicals, such as those used by AB Specialty Silicones, are regulated by neither the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration nor the Environmental Protection Agency. For more than 20 years, she stressed, the CSB has urged the agencies to regulate such chemicals.
At the paper mill, an electric heat gun fell into and ignited a bucket of flammable resin during a scheduled maintenance operation. The heat gun was not permitted in the work area but workers were using it to speed up their cleanup and maintenance operation. Such hot work was not allowed in the confined space area, and the workers lacked a fire extinguisher.
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<dc:subject>us_IL industrial follow-up environmental flammables hydrogen silane</dc:subject>
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    <title>Safety Assessments Supporting Scale-up of Chemistry Involving Hydrogen</title>
    <dc:date>2021-08-12T10:02:10+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Asymmetric transfer hydrogenation (ATH) is a commonly used transformation in the pharmaceutical industry for the reduction of ketones to establish key stereocenters. Yet, the potential for hydrogen gas generation during reaction, workup, and waste handling processes could be overlooked, resulting in serious safety issues such as waste container overpressurization or fire. In this study, multiple module calorimeter (MMC) testing along with micro-GC tests of small scale (1–2 mL) representative lab samples were performed to detect and predict the potential safety hazards associated with the scale-up of an ATH process. Due to the safety concern discovered in the early safety screening tests, methanesulfonic acid (MSA) quench was implemented at the end of the ATH reaction to suppress hydrogen generation, avoiding possible overpressurizing the waste drum and the need to use special hydrogen-rated equipment at pilot- and production-scale. A safety assessment was performed to ensure that the subsequent vacuum distillation poses no risk of hydrogen combustion caused by using a standard pump/system. The process improvements and rigorous safety assessments enable the ATH reaction to be scaled-up using standard pilot plant equipment without the need for special handling and monitoring requirements for hydrogen gas. This study provides useful guidance and recommendations for safer scaling-up of similar organic synthetic reactions which may also generate flammable gas.

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    <title>Lessons Learned—Lithium Silicide Hydration Fire</title>
    <dc:date>2021-07-29T10:42:42+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Alkali metals, such as lithium, sodium, potassium, etc., are highly reactive elements. While researchers generally handle these metals with caution, less caution is taken when these elements have been “reacted”. Here, a recent incident is examined in which a pair of researchers ignited a lithium silicide alloy sample that was assumed to be fully hydrated to lithium hydroxide and, thereby, no longer water-reactive. However, variations in the original chemical composition of the lithium compounds examined resulted in select mixtures failing to hydrate and react completely to lithium hydroxide in the time frame allowed. This gave rise to residual unreacted, water-sensitive lithium silicide which resulted in a violent exothermic reaction with water and autoignition of the produced hydrogen gas. This Article describes this incident and improvements that can be implemented to prevent similar incidents from occurring.

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<dc:subject>us_NM laboratory fire response hydrogen metals sodium</dc:subject>
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    <title>Las Cruces Fire Department hazmat team responds to liquid hydrogen leak</title>
    <dc:date>2021-04-02T10:22:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.ktsm.com/local/las-cruces-news/las-cruces-fire-department-hazmat-team-responds-to-liquid-hydrogen-leak/</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KTSM) – The Las Cruces Fire Department deployed a hazmat team to depressurize a commercial vehicle with refrigerated liquid hydrogen after a leak was found.

The incident brought a halt to traffic just South of Las Cruces on Thursday afternoon, according to LCFD officials. The vehicle was traveling from California to Texas when a two-person crew noticed smoke appearing from the tanker trailer.

Drivers of the vehicle pulled-over on Interstate 10 heading East near the Interstate 25 interchange, according to officials. The vehicle was then escorted to a safe location South of the New Mexico State University main campus.

The vehicle remains in an isolated area and does not appear to pose an immediate threat to nearby residential areas, officials say.

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    <title>Crews respond to hazmat at Providence Post Office</title>
    <dc:date>2021-01-11T11:28:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/providence/crews-respond-to-hazmat-at-main-post-office/</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — A battery issue forced people to evacuate the main post office in Providence on Sunday morning.

Hazmat crews responded to the Corliss Street building around 9:30 a.m.

Fire officials said two people were exposed to hydrogen gas from a faulty forklift battery.

Crews quickly turned off the power and ventilated the area.

The fire department said one person refused treatment and the other was transported to Miriam Hospital as a precaution.

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<dc:subject>us_RI industrial release injury batteries hydrogen</dc:subject>
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    <title>Neural network measures gas below a sensor’s limit</title>
    <dc:date>2020-05-07T12:47:57+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Chemical sensors can act as sentinels for explosive gases like hydrogen or methane or for harmful volatile organic compounds before they build to dangerous levels. But typically, they can only sound the alarm when their target molecules accumulate above the sensor’s detection limit; by one definition, when signals generated are three times as high as background noise.

Jihan Kim and Hee-Tae Jung from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology wondered whether any hidden signals could be extracted from the noise using deep learning techniques, effectively lowering the detection limit for a sensor (Anal. Chem. 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00137).

Machine learning is famed for being able to pull patterns from a vast store of data. Instead of seeing whether signals cross the detection limit at any instant, an algorithm that has gotten used to a sensor’s normal output over time can pick up hidden signals when something in the sensor’s output changes. “The algorithm does not look at the limit of detection, but it looks at the turns in the data,” explains Ahmet Enis Cetin, an electrical engineer at the University of Illinois at Chicago who was not involved with the study. Other than making it possible to go below the limit of detection, algorithms could also help aging sensors cope and reduce sensors’ calibration needs, Cetin says.

Kim, Jung, and their colleagues tested the idea out on metallic thin-film sensors used to measure hydrogen. They fabricated four sets of six individual sensors from platinum, palladium, gold, nickel, copper and molybdenum. With a constant voltage applied across the metals, their resistances change as gases come into contact, thus creating a signal. The platinum sensors began detecting hydrogen at 50 ppm, and the palladium sensors at 10 ppm. The other four metals did not produce a signal even at 100 ppm.

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<dc:subject>Republic_of_Korea laboratory discovery environmental hydrogen metals methane</dc:subject>
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    <title>Maharashtra chemical factory explosion leaves six dead</title>
    <dc:date>2020-01-12T11:03:19+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[SIX LABOURERS were killed and at least 10 injured after a huge explosion took place at a chemical plant in Bhoisar’s Tarapur Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation area — 136 km west of Mumbai. The explosion destroyed a part of the plant as well as an adjacent building, which was under construction. At the time of going to press, rescue operations were underway to locate the workers trapped under the rubble.

The police said the incident took place around 7 pm when the owner of the plant, Natubhai Patel, and 11 labourers, were inside. The deceased have been identified as Ansari Elias, Nishu Singh, Madhuri Singh, Golu Yadav, Rajmatidevi Yadav and Mohan Ingale. At least five fire engines and 10 ambulances were rushed to the spot following the explosion.

Sources said the explosion took place when a trial run of a chemical production was being conducted. Hydrogen used during the trial could have led to the expolsion. Following the incident, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray announced a compensation of Rs 5 lakh each for the families of the deceased.

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    <dc:date>2019-12-20T11:44:51+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Leaking and uncontained hydrogen led to an explosion that killed four workers and seriously injured a fifth last May at AB Specialty Silicones in Waukegan, Illinois, according to a preliminary investigation report released by the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board on Dec. 18.

The plant made custom silicone products that are used in a wide variety of industries, including personal care, chemical manufacturing, adhesives, sealants, and coatings. It ran 24 hours a day and employed 88 people who worked in three shifts.

However, despite the output, the quantities of material the facility used and stored fell below threshold levels triggering oversight by the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Risk Management Program or the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s process safety management standard, the CSB says.

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    <title>Government agency to seek ban on hydrogen balloon after deadly explosion</title>
    <dc:date>2019-11-06T12:32:50+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Department of Explosives is seeking a ban on use of hydrogen to inflate balloons and arrest of vendors who use the gas.
The department made the recommendations in a report it is submitting to the power, energy and mineral resources ministry on Wednesday following the deadly blast of a gas cylinder used by a vendor to inflate balloons in Dhaka’s Rupnagar.

The blast near a slum a week ago left seven children dead and at least a dozen injured.

Police arrested the injured vendor Abu Sayeed and started a case against him on culpable homicide charges.

The explosion occurred as the vendor was brewing hydrogen in an unapproved manner, explosives department officials said.]]></description>
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    <title>Israeli Technion professor dies of injuries after laboratory explosion</title>
    <dc:date>2019-10-27T10:00:30+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Prof. Emeritus Elazar Gutmanas, 80, died Saturday after he was badly injured two weeks ago in a laboratory explosion at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

The explosion occurred during the course of Gutmanas’ research with hydrogen at his lab in the Department for Materials Science and Engineering, according to the fire department.

A senior Magen David Adom paramedic said at the time that Gutmanas was hospitalized with burns covering his body as well as other injuries to his upper body. He was taken to Rambam Hospital in Haifa in serious condition.

Gutmanas completed his Ph.D. in the USSR in 1970, before immigrating to Israel in 1974 and joining the Technion’s Materials Science department a few months later.

His research topics included synthesis of composite materials, wear-resistant coatings on metal alloys, developing nanostructured bulk materials and developing load bearing biocompatible implantable devices, according to the Technion.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.samessenger.com/news/hydrogen-leak-closes-entrance-to-town-industrial-park/article_d50297c2-f4ca-11e9-84be-f79d10a5fcc4.html">
    <title>Hydrogen leak closes entrance to town industrial park</title>
    <dc:date>2019-10-23T09:44:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.samessenger.com/news/hydrogen-leak-closes-entrance-to-town-industrial-park/article_d50297c2-f4ca-11e9-84be-f79d10a5fcc4.html</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ST. ALBANS — The fire department briefly stopped traffic from entering the St. Albans Town Industrial Park in response to a hydrogen leak at Superior Technical Ceramics (STC) Tuesday morning.

According to Harold "Bobby" Cross, the St. Albans Town Fire Chief, STC's kiln operator noticed something was off when he arrived in the morning and used a detector to determine that there was a leak.

STC contacted the fire department at approximately 5:45 a.m. and evacuated the building.

Workers at other businesses in the park sheltered in place while fire fighters determined the area was safe.

Hydrogen is "highly flammable," said Cross. It's also lighter than other gases, causing it to rise. 

The Vermont Hazmat Team also responded to the scene and a check was done of both low-lying areas and high points in the building to make sure the gas hadn't collected anywhere.

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    <title>Fatal Explosion Slams South Korea’s Hydrogen Future</title>
    <dc:date>2019-09-27T11:03:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fatal-explosion-slams-south-korea-190000850.html</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[South Korean resident groups have been protesting hydrogen stations being built in their area following a May explosion in a hydrogen storage tank at a government research project in the city of Gangneung. Two people were killed, six injured, and the complex half the size of a soccer field was destroyed.

A month later, an explosion occurred at a hydrogen refueling station in Norway. This week, three South Korean workers were burned at a chemical plant caused by a hydrogen leak and subsequent fire.

A preliminary investigation into the fatal May explosion determined that the blast was caused by a spark after oxygen found its way into the tank.

“One victim was blown away by pressure and then killed after being hit by rock,” said Kong Gikwang, a lawyer who represents the family of one of the two who died in a lawsuit against the research complex.]]></description>
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    <title>Lessons Learned from Fire and Explosion in PNNL's Physical Sciences Laboratory</title>
    <dc:date>2019-08-19T11:32:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://opexshare.doe.gov/lesson.cfm/2019/8/12/28161/Lessons-Learned-from-Fire-and-Explosion-in-PNNLs-Physical-Sciences-Laboratory</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On September 30, 2018, a fire and explosion occurred after hours in a laboratory in PNNL's Physical Sciences Laboratory building. No one was hurt. After the event, an Accident Investigation Team worked to determine the causes. While the team was unable to conclusively determine the direct cause, this Lessons Learned article outlines what was learned from the event and the Team's recommendations to avoid recurrence.

This article is intended as a supplement to a video that extensively details what occurred, the experimental setup, damage to the fume hood, potential causes, and some of the lessons learned. To view the 10-minute video, see the OPEX Share article "Lessons from Hydrogen Fire and Explosion in Unattended Experiment at PNNL" or search for the YouTube video of the same name.]]></description>
<dc:subject>us_WA laboratory follow-up environmental hydrogen</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/csiro-could-face-big-fine-after-sawdust-experiment-went-horribly-wrong-20190612-p51x0n.html">
    <title>CSIRO could face big fine after sawdust experiment went horribly wrong</title>
    <dc:date>2019-06-12T10:12:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/csiro-could-face-big-fine-after-sawdust-experiment-went-horribly-wrong-20190612-p51x0n.html</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Australia's leading scientific and industrial research organisation has been charged over a laboratory explosion that left a researcher with facial burns.

The CSIRO is charged with four breaches of federal work, health and safety laws over the incident at its Clayton site on June 6, 2017, each carrying a maximum $1.5 million penalty.

The charges were laid after a scientist was injured while heating sawdust at pressure using hydrogen gas in an autoclave.

Gas leaked and ignited, causing the researcher injuries including facial burns. There was also extensive building damage, with debris thrown up to 20 metres away, according to regulator Comcare.

The charges allege CSIRO failed to provide a safe work environment and will be mentioned in the Moorabbin Magistrates Court on July 3.

]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://leftlanenews.com/2019/06/11/hydrogen-refueling-station-explodes-in-norway-toyota-halts-fcv-sales/">
    <title>Hydrogen refueling station explodes in Norway; Toyota, Hyundai halt FCV sales</title>
    <dc:date>2019-06-12T10:10:10+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A hydrogen refueling station in Norway has reportedly experienced an explosion, disrupting fuel supplies across the region.

Norwegian media outlets E24 and TU detail a "huge explosion" at a station in the city of Sandvika near Oslo, injuring two occupants of a nearby non-FCV vehicle that was rocked hard enough to deploy the airbags.

Nel, an Oslo-based company that supplied the hydrogen and refueling infrastructure to the station, has dispatched a team of technical experts to work with authorities as they investigate the cause of the explosion.

In the meantime, Nel has temporarily halted its hydrogen refueling operations in Norway, Denmark and other countries.

Toyota and Hyundai have both reportedly halted sales of hydrogen-powered vehicles until the cause of the incident is determined and the stations are back online.

]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.boston25news.com/news/sysco-food-plant-in-plympton-evacuated-due-to-hydrogen-leak/956069537">
    <title>Sysco food plant in Plympton evacuated due to hydrogen leak</title>
    <dc:date>2019-06-07T12:03:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.boston25news.com/news/sysco-food-plant-in-plympton-evacuated-due-to-hydrogen-leak/956069537</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[PLYMPTON, Mass. - A food plant had to be evacuated due to a hydrogen leak. 

Hazmat teams were called to the Sysco food plant in Plympton Thursday night. Several fire trucks were also on scene. 

The state fire marshal's office says it appears the leak came from a forklift. ]]></description>
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    <title>Bay Area experiences hydrogen shortage after explosion in Santa Clara County</title>
    <dc:date>2019-06-04T11:00:45+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[SANTA CLARA COUNTY, Calif. (KGO) -- An explosion at a chemical plant in Santa Clara County this past weekend has the drivers of hydrogen fueled vehicles going nowhere fast.

The facility is owned and operated by Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., a hydrogen supplier.

It's supposed to be the fuel of the future but along with innovation there are growing pains.

Hydrogen fueling stations across the Bay Area were down Monday following the explosion.
]]></description>
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    <title>Cause Of Hydrogen Explosion And Fire Under Investigation</title>
    <dc:date>2019-06-03T10:21:37+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An explosion and fire at a chemical products company Saturday prompted evacuations of nearby businesses while the Santa Clara Fire Department worked to contain the blaze. 

The fire was reported about 4:30 p.m. at Air Products and Chemicals Inc. near the 1500 block of Norman Avenue, where crews found multiple hydrogen tanker trucks on fire in the facility yard. 

Neighboring businesses in a two-block radius were asked to evacuate or shelter-in-place for about two hours. 

Ladder trucks were deployed and the fire was reported extinguished at 5:40 p.m. 

"Additional air sampling and thermal imaging was conducted to ensure air quality, and the hydrogen, which is not visible when burning in the daytime, did not pose a threat," the department said in a release. 
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    <title>Three industrial workers injured in Taunton chemical explosion</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-15T11:21:55+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[TAUNTON, Mass. —
Three industrial workers were injured in a chemical explosion at a plant in the Myles Standish Industrial Park in Taunton, according to the Taunton Fire Department.

Firefighters responded to IQE, located at 200 John Hancock Road, at 12:25 a.m. for a reported explosion inside the plant.

Upon arrival, firefighters found three employees suffering from flash burns on their faces and hands. Firefighters were notified that the explosion could have possibly released hazardous materials into the air.

Firefighters requested a Tier 2 hazardous materials response, which brought in resources, personnel and equipment from around the region.

Officials at the scene determined the explosion involved compressed hydrogen and arsine. The hazmat crew determined that the danger was confined to a piece of equipment used in manufacturing and no materials were released into the environment.

The equipment was undergoing maintenance at the time of the explosion, according to the Taunton Fire Department.

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    <title>Explosion at IIT-Bombay injures professor, 2 interns</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-30T09:38:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.hindustantimes.com/mumbai-news/explosion-at-iit-bombay-injures-professor-2-interns/story-i8UkvjMhnKnDeLyjKUj8iM.html</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Three people sustained burn injuries on Friday afternoon when an experiment led to a minor explosion at the aerospace department of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B). A part-time professor Tushar Jadhav and two interns, Prashant Singh and Rajat Kumar, received first aid on campus for their injuries and were later admitted to the National Burns Centre in Navi Mumbai.

“The incident took place in the main building of the aerospace department at around 12.30 pm when Tushar Jadhav and two of his interns [who are not IIT-B students] were running an experiment on a lighter-than-air airship. The airship, which was already filled with hydrogen [a combustible gas], was being further pressurised when this incident occurred,” said a spokesperson for IIT-B.

Dr SM Keswani, director of National Burns Centre, said the three were admitted around 4pm.

Jadhav and Singh suffered 16% burns and are in the intensive care unit (ICU). Kumar suffered 4% burns and is in the general ward. “We have applied artificial skin to the injuries and all three of them are stable now. Those who are in ICU have suffered lung injuries too. They will be kept there for four days and will be shifted after that,” said Dr Keswani. Jadhav is a former dual-degree student of IIT-B and a part-time professor in the chemical engineering department. The airship experiment was part of a project by Jadhav’s firm, Manastu Space, incubated at the Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE), IIT-B. The two interns were working with Jadhav and were on campus as part of a government-sponsored project.

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<item rdf:about="https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/03/05/1748319/0/en/AIChE-Launches-Center-for-Hydrogen-Safety.html">
    <title>AIChE Launches Center for Hydrogen Safety</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-06T12:19:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/03/05/1748319/0/en/AIChE-Launches-Center-for-Hydrogen-Safety.html</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[New York, NY, March 05, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) announces the Center for Hydrogen Safety. This new Center promotes the safe handling and use of hydrogen across industrial and consumer applications in the global energy transition. 

The Center for Hydrogen Safety (www.aiche.org/CHS) will provide international partner organizations with innovative tools and resources that address both traditional uses of hydrogen and hydrogen’s growing use as a fuel source around the globe. The new Center builds upon the technical expertise embodied by AIChE, its Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS), and partnering organizations — whose members and stakeholders have innovated and documented industrial safety best-practices and techniques over many decades of practice and research.

The Center for Hydrogen Safety will receive its official launch on Tuesday, April 2, during the 2019 AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress Process Safety in New Orleans, Louisiana.

“This global, nonprofit Center identifies and enables information sharing on the safe use of hydrogen — as a sustainable energy carrier, in commercial and industrial applications, and in hydrogen and fuel cell technologies,” says Nick Barilo, Director of the Center. “It will facilitate access to hydrogen safety experts; develop comprehensive safety guidance, outreach and education materials; and provide a forum to partner on world-wide technical solutions.”
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    <title>Negligence blamed in deadly laboratory explosion on campus</title>
    <dc:date>2019-02-14T12:51:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201902/14/WS5c64c3c4a3106c65c34e93fa.html</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Serious dereliction of duty led to the deaths of three students in a laboratory explosion at Beijing Jiaotong University in December, the Beijing Emergency Management Bureau said on Wednesday.

A joint investigation involving multiple government departments found that the students purchased and stored dangerous chemicals and carried out risky experiments in violation of regulations. University personnel also failed to oversee and manage the safety of laboratories and scientific research projects, investigators said.

On Dec 26, students from the urban planning and environmental engineering department were doing sewage treatment experiments in a laboratory building on the university's eastern campus. The explosion killed three students who were taking part.

The investigation of the blast was coordinated by the municipal Emergency Management Bureau, Public Security Bureau and Fire Services Department.

It found that during the stirring of magnesium powder and phosphoric acid in a mixer, the hydrogen generated in the hopper was ignited by a spark caused by metal friction in the mixer and then exploded. That in turn caused a further magnesium dust explosion, engulfing the rest of the magnesium powder and other combustibles nearby. The three students died at the scene, it said.

Public security authorities said Li Desheng, director of the research project, and Zhang Qiong, manager of the laboratory, will be investigated for criminal negligence.

The Ministry of Education and Beijing Jiaotong University punished 12 officials from the university, including Cao Guoyong, its Party chief, Ning Bin, its president and Guan Zhongliang, its vice-president.

The authorities have ordered corrections in the production, sale, transportation and storage of dangerous chemicals, with comprehensive safety inspections at every stage.

All universities in Beijing have been asked to carry out safety inspections, clarify experiment regulations, improve the safety management system of laboratories and strengthen personnel training in order to prevent other incidents.

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    <title>Lessons from Hydrogen Fire and Explosion in Unattended Experiment at PNNL</title>
    <dc:date>2019-01-21T13:32:41+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On September 30, 2018, a fire and minor explosion occurred in a laboratory in Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Physical Sciences Laboratory building. While damage to the experimental equipment was significant, the damage to the lab itself was minimal. Over the course of an investigation and causal analysis, much was learned. 

PNNL management feels it's important to share these lessons with staff and others from around the DOE complex so everyone can benefit from this experience. 

Over the next few minutes, you'll see a little about the research that was being conducted, what is believed to have gone wrong, and what was learned. As part of that learning, you'll hear about two of the Safe Conduct of Research (SCoR) principles that emphasize how having a questioning attitude and a healthy respect for what can go wrong could have prevented or lessened the impact of this event.
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<dc:subject>us_WA laboratory follow-up environmental hydrogen</dc:subject>
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    <title>Gas cylinder explosion in India’s premier government lab kills 1 person, wounds 3 more</title>
    <dc:date>2019-01-02T12:22:49+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A gas cylinder blast in a laboratory at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) on Dec. 5 killed one researcher and left three others grievously wounded.
The researchers were working in the Laboratory for Hypersonic and Shock Wave Research, which was established in the 1970s to study shock waves.
Vikram Jayaram, head of IISc’s internal investigation team, told C&EN on Dec. 31 that the explosion involved cylinders containing hydrogen-oxygen mixtures that are used to generate controlled shock waves in a protected, closed container to study granite fragmentation for purposes such as mining and oil recovery. “At this stage of the inquiry, all indications are that adequate safety precautions were employed,” Jayaram said.
Manoj Kumar, 32, died instantly. Naresh Kumar, Atulya Uday Kumar, and Karthik Shenoy were hospitalized. All were project engineers employed by start-up Super-Wave Technology, an IISc initiative managed by aerospace engineering professors K. P. J. Reddy and G. Jagadeesh. The company researches shock waves and their applications.
Police booked the two professors on Dec. 6 on charges of causing death due to negligence and for causing grievous injuries by acts endangering the lives and personal safety of others.
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    <title>IISC incident probe: Police probe negligence angle at Indian Institute of Science</title>
    <dc:date>2018-12-08T13:00:04+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A day after a 32-year-old was killed and three others injured in a suspected cylinder blast inside a laboratory of Hypersonic and Shock Research Center in the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) campus, forensic experts and along with fire and emergency personnel continued to gather evidence from the mishap site.
The police, in their preliminary report, have declared that it was a cylinder blast. Besides, they have taken some samples with them for further procedures. A senior police officer added that the police team questioned IISc staff to find out how exactly the blast happened and what are the standard safety measures followed during the tests.
“We are yet to confirm whether it was an act of negligence. For now, we are treating it as accidental blast,” the officer said.
The police, on Wednesday, had said that the victims, all interning with Superwave Technology Private Limited, were conducting an experiment involving supersonic shock waves. A highly combustible mixture of hydrogen and oxygen was used for the process. The cylinder it was in exploded and Manoj Kumar, who was working next to it died on the spot. The impact was such that his body was thrown 20 feet away.]]></description>
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    <title>Explosion at IISc lab kills one researcher, injures 3</title>
    <dc:date>2018-12-06T13:01:28+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[BENGALURU: A researcher was killed and three others sustained burns in an explosion in a laboratory at Indian Institute of Science (IISc) here on Wednesday. The blast occurred around 2.30pm when 32-year-old Manoj Kumar, who died in the blast, and his colleagues were working on an experiment at the Laboratory for Hypersonic and Shock Wave Research in IISc.
Police said the injured researchers — Atulya Kumar, Naresh Kumar and Karthik — have been hospitalised. “Their condition is critical,” a police officer said.
The four were employees of Super-Wave Technology, an IISc-incubated startup headed by senior scientists at the department of aerospace engineering, IISc.
Preliminary investigation by police and forensic experts ruled out sabotage. Investigators, who suspect a leak in a hydrogen cylinder caused the explosion, described the impact as “strong”. “It completely damaged equipment in the laboratory,” the officer said.
IISc chief security officer MR Chandrashekar said Wednesday’s explosion was unprecedented. “This is the first time in the history of IISc that an explosion of such magnitude has taken place during experimentation,” he said.
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    <title>Cree evacuates due to overnight hydrogen leak</title>
    <dc:date>2018-09-30T10:40:07+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- A hydrogen leak forced Cree employees to evacuate Saturday morning.

It happened at the Cree building on Silicon Drive off of Chin Page Road.

Durham fire officials were dispatched around 2:30 a.m. and reported a storage tank of liquid hydrogen was leaking within the containment area of the site.

Workers were evacuated to a safe area onsite were provided protection in case the gas was ignited.
The leak was stopped at 5:20 a.m.

Durham police said no one was injured from the leak.

A Cree spokesperson gave the following statement:

An incident involving a hydrogen leak occurred at approximately 12:30 a.m. today at our Durham facility. The safety of our employees and residents in the immediate area has been our first priority and every precaution has been taken since the discovery of the leak. Cree's campus and the surrounding area have been deemed safe by local authorities. There were no injuries as a result of the occurrence, and the leak was swiftly and safely contained. All protocols and systems worked as intended, including the temporary evacuation of our employees. We worked cooperatively with local authorities to notify residents in the immediate area. All production has resumed as we conduct a thorough investigation into the incident.]]></description>
<dc:subject>us_NC industrial release response hydrogen</dc:subject>
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    <title>Wacker employee sues manufacturer for $5 million after September 2017 explosion</title>
    <dc:date>2018-09-08T10:41:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://newschannel9.com/news/local/wacker-employee-sues-manufacturer-for-5-million-after-september-2017-explosion</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, Tenn. — One year to the day that an explosion rocked the Wacker chemical plant, an employee is suing the company behind the equipment the complaint says failed, leading to the explosion and his permanent injuries.
This is a $5 million dollar lawsuit on behalf of Andrew Gott, a Wacker employee who claims to have been “ the closest Wacker employee to this horrific explosion.”
As for the accident itself, the suit states that a piston broke and came through the head of a compressor, even bursting through concrete walls of the room surrounding it. The failure ignited hydrogen, resulting in a “horrific fireball felt several miles away.”
The complaint isn't against Wacker, however, but Burkhardt Compression. Gott's attorney says the company designed and provided a piston that broke.
The lawsuit says "the explosion & shockwaves hit him & burned him," and that ever since, he has been unable to go back to work. The lawsuit is also on behalf of Joann Gott, who cites damages beyond those of her husband Andrew.
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    <title>Hydrogen tank gas leak, flash-over fire prompts evacuations in El Cajon</title>
    <dc:date>2018-08-30T11:35:35+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[fireball of hydrogen gas erupted from a tank, damaging the tank truck and prompting evacuations at several businesses, schools and homes in El Cajon for a few hours Wednesday morning.

No one was injured, and the large tank, used to haul 1,500 to 2,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen, did not explode, authorities said.

The blast of gas did make a large, explosive noise, officials and one witness said.

However, because of the danger of a blast while gas vented from the tank, employees quickly evacuated from Veridiam, an industrial business where the truck parked and off-loaded the hydrogen, Heartland Fire and Rescue spokesman Mark Casey said.

The truck was backed up to an even larger tank at Veridiam.

About 150 students at Idea Center High School, Chaparral High School and Merit Academy were evacuated to the gymnasium at Grossmont High School to be reunited with their parents, Grossmont Union High School District spokeswoman Catherine Martin said.

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    <title>UPDATE: Five evaluated following hazmat situation in Stewartville</title>
    <dc:date>2018-06-07T12:35:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.kimt.com/content/news/Hazardous-Materials-Team-on-active-scene-in-Stewartville-484749491.html</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[STEWARTVILLE, Minn. - A strange smell at Geotek Inc. in Stewartville resulted in a hazardous materials situation Wednesday afternoon.

Geotek is a fiberglass manufacturer, and according to their Vice President of Quality Safety, employees complained of a strange smell and itchy eyes just after the company's lunch hour.

Geotek then called the Stewartville Fire Department, who brought in the State Chemical Assessment team out of Rochester.

Five people were transported for evaluation as a precautionary measure.

Stewartville Fire Chief Vance Swisher tells KIMT that the facility was evacuated and tested using monitors, which tested positive for hydrogen cyanide.

However, given the chemicals at the facility, they believe that the monitors had a faulty alarm.

As of now, Swisher says the most likely cause is that the manufacturing line at Geotek had a failure of some kind, causing the chemical mixutre not to be consistent with what they normally run.

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    <title>Man killed in 'catastrophic' blast while 'tinkering' in shed</title>
    <dc:date>2018-04-23T09:42:55+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A MAN has been killed in a ‘catastrophic’ explosion at his home in Brisbane’s north.

The blast ripped through the property in the suburb of Warner around 5.30pm on Friday.

Police said the man in his 50s was working on a machine beside his shed when the explosion occurred.

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It’s understood the man, described by his wife as a “tinkerer”, was using a hydrogen gas unit to extract the chemical element from water.

Neighbours called triple-0 after the blast shook their homes and likened the explosion to a ‘nuclear bomb’.]]></description>
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    <title>OSHA investigating explosion on HP campus in Corvallis</title>
    <dc:date>2018-03-29T10:01:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/osha-investigating-explosion-on-hp-campus-in-corvallis/article_cd2ff40a-2c60-5bf4-ad7e-e4cc70ada8ab.html</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Oregon Occupational Safety & Health Division is looking into last week’s explosion on the HP Inc. campus in Corvallis, according to the government agency.

OSHA enforces statewide workplace safety and health rules. Corvallis Fire Department officials have said a hydrogen generator inside an HP laboratory exploded last Thursday, injuring four people. Two people were transported to Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center. Their injuries were non-life threatening. Officials have declined to release the names of the people who were injured.

Aaron Corvin, a spokesperson for OSHA, said the agency is investigating the explosion and has 180 days to complete its investigation. Corvin said he could not discuss the details of an active investigation. The results of the investigation will be made public, he said.

Generally, when OSHA investigates workplace incidents, officials collect evidence from the scene, interview witnesses and company officials and review safety records, Corvin said. Investigators may look into what training and supervision had been involved and what safety protocols were in place, as well as examine any equipment involved, he said.

Corvin said OSHA then determines whether an employer violated safety rules and decides whether to issue a citation with penalties.

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<item rdf:about="https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/oregon/articles/2018-03-22/2-hurt-in-explosion-at-hp-campus-in-corvallis">
    <title>2 Hurt in Explosion at HP Campus in Corvallis</title>
    <dc:date>2018-03-23T12:12:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/oregon/articles/2018-03-22/2-hurt-in-explosion-at-hp-campus-in-corvallis</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say two people were injured in an explosion at the HP Inc. campus in Corvallis.

The Gazette-Times reports that firefighters responded at about 3:30 p.m. Thursday to reports of an explosion on the high-tech campus.

Corvallis Fire Department spokesman Jim Patton says a hydrogen generator exploded inside a laboratory. He did not know what caused the generator to explode.

Patton says the damage was contained to the room where the explosion occurred. He says there was no fire and no toxic or unsafe materials were released.

Patton says paramedics took two people to Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center.

No information was immediately available on their identities or the extent of their injuries.
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    <title>Tennessee fines chemical plant $25,000 in hydrogen explosion</title>
    <dc:date>2018-03-10T14:46:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.startribune.com/tennessee-fines-chemical-plant-25-000-in-hydrogen-explosion/476395393/</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, Tenn. — Tennessee regulators have fined a chemical plant $25,000 for an explosion that shut down an interstate and put several schools on lockdown.

WRCB-TV reported Friday that the Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited Wacker Chemie for seven violations stemming from the explosion at its Bradley County plant in September. The report says a broken cylinder fractured, releasing hydrogen that caught fire.

The cited violations range from improper training to failing to follow good engineering practices. A week before the explosion, five employees had been hospitalized for chemical exposure, resulting in a separate $20,000 fine.

A company statement says they're still working to reopen the plant, but are confident that it'll reopen safely.

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    <title>Truck Carrying Hydrogen Tanks Catches Fire, Causes Evacuations in Diamond Bar</title>
    <dc:date>2018-02-12T13:23:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Truck-Carrying-Hydrogen-Tanks-Catches-Fire-Causes-Evacuations-in-Diamond-Bar-473746073.html</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A fire in a truck carrying compressed hydrogen tanks caused the evacuation of people initially in a one-mile radius area of suburban Diamond Bar Sunday, and a county HazMat team was sent to the scene because of the danger of an explosion.
The fire broke out on the truck at about 1:20 p.m. at the intersection of South Brea Canyon Road and Golden Springs Drive, according to a Los Angeles County Fire Department dispatcher. That location is just south of the Riverside (60) Freeway and west of the Orange (57) Freeway, but traffic on that freeway was not impeded.
The CHP reported witnesses heard a small explosion.
County fire then dispatched a HazMat team to the site because of the possibility of an explosion, the dispatcher said. The truck was carrying about 20 tanks of hydrogen.
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    <title>Niagara County warns public to stay out of the area, as chemical leak being contained</title>
    <dc:date>2017-10-25T10:23:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://news.wbfo.org/post/niagara-county-warns-public-stay-out-area-chemical-leak-being-contained</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Niagara Falls Airport is closed and variety of emergency agencies remain on scene in Niagara Falls Tuesday, where a tanker leaking refrigerated hydrogen is a flammable, explosive hazard to the area.

Niagara County Director of Emergency Services Jonathan Schultz advised the public to stay out of the area Tuesday morning, as crews "are taking our time" to preserve safety. At about 11:35 a.m., Niagara County Sheriff Jim Voutour said a Shelter in Place advisory became effective and will last for a few hours.

Voutour said officers will be going door-to-door and issuing alerts by telephone to those affected - about a 1,500-foot radius of the scene, affecting Military Road, Richmond Avenue, Jane Drive, Carol Court, Tuscarora from Effie to Homestead and Homestead Avenue. He said a few homes in the immediate area also will be evacuated.

Schultz said the event began about 10 p.m. Monday, when a tanker driver tried to turn around in the Wegmans parking lot on Niagara Falls Boulevard in Niagara Falls, but misjudged the turn and collided with a light standard. The tanker remains there Tuesday because its full load of refrigerated hydrogen is leaking and "we don't have the leak totally contained yet."

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<item rdf:about="http://www.chattanoogan.com/2017/9/20/355298/Investigation-May-Require-Wacker.aspx">
    <title>Investigation May Require Wacker Chemical To Close For Several Months</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-21T11:17:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.chattanoogan.com/2017/9/20/355298/Investigation-May-Require-Wacker.aspx</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[After the incident at Wacker’s U.S. production site in Charleston, root-cause investigation work is now underway.  Global President Wacker Polysilicon Tobias Brandis said the plant may be closed for several months for the investigation.

The explosion on Sept. 7 was caused by a technical defect prompting a leak of hydrogen which subsequently caught fire, thereby severely damaging a small, but important facility of the production plant.

Wacker has engaged an independent expert team to determine the root cause of the incident and is cooperating with governmental authorities to ensure a safe resumption of operations. Financial effects on Wacker stemming from this incident are expected to be only minor due to insurance coverage for damages and loss of production, said officials. ]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://patch.com/new-jersey/newarknj/explosion-newark-chemical-company-causes-fire-officials">
    <title>Explosion At Newark Chemical Company Causes Fire: Officials</title>
    <dc:date>2017-04-13T11:26:01+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[NEWARK, NJ — An explosion at an Essex County chemical flavoring business on Monday night set off a fire and damaged the company’s building and its equipment, but didn’t injure any workers or emergency responders, authorities say.

The “small chemical explosion” took place at Elan Foods Extracts and Ingredients, a company located at 268 Doremus Avenue, according to the Newark Department of Public Safety.

Newark firefighters spotted flames coming from a 900-gallon tank outside the business around 10:17 p.m. According to authorities, the tank contained Methyl Anthranilate, a combustible chemical which likely exploded when it was mixed with hydrogen.

Officials said that none of the four employees at the scene or emergency responders suffered injury during the incident.]]></description>
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    <title>Fire at Pittsburg power plant Sunday afternoon</title>
    <dc:date>2017-01-30T12:27:16+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A fire erupted in a Pittsburg power plant Sunday afternoon, sending 40-foot flames and black plumes of smoke into the air.

The fire was reported just before 4 p.m. at the Delta Energy Center, on the 1200 block of Arcy Lane. There were no reported injuries and Contra Costa County Fire District personnel had extinguished the fire by 6 pm, Cpt. Lisa Martinez said.

Hazardous material workers were monitoring the situation due to the presence of hydrogen, a potentially volatile chemical. U.S. Fish and Game officials also responded since lube oil was flowing from the power plant toward the delta, Martinez said.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i4/Civil-suit-filed-against-University.html">
    <title>Civil suit filed against University of Hawaii for lab explosion</title>
    <dc:date>2017-01-20T12:40:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i4/Civil-suit-filed-against-University.html</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An injured postdoctoral researcher and her spouse have filed a civil suit against the University of Hawaii (UH) and others involved for a 2016 explosion in which the researcher lost one of her arms.
At the time of the incident, postdoc Thea Ekins-Coward was preparing a gas mixture of 55% hydrogen, 38% oxygen, and 7% carbon dioxide to feed to bacteria to produce biofuels, according to a report issued by the University of California Center for Laboratory Safety (UCCLS). The center was hired by UH to investigate the incident.
The gases were combined in an ungrounded 49-L steel tank designed for compressed air, not for hazardous gases. UCCLS concluded that a static discharge most likely caused the explosion.
Ekins-Coward lost her right lower arm and elbow and suffered corneal abrasions, facial burns, and loss of high frequency hearing from nerve damage to her ears, according to a civil complaint filed with a Hawaii court on Jan. 9.
Ekins-Coward worked for the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute. The defendants named in the suit are UH; Jian Yu, the principal investigator of the lab in which Ekins-Coward worked; and Richard E. Rocheleau, director of the institute.
The defendants “negligently, grossly negligently, carelessly and recklessly breached their duty by providing unsafe and improper equipment, by failing to provide adequate training, by failing to follow safety codes, standards and regulations in laboratory safety, by directing Thea Ekins-Coward to undertake experiments that were inherently and unnecessarily unsafe, by failing to make reasonable inspection of the equipment, and by failing to warn of any inadequacy of the equipment or the possible dangerous condition,” the complaint says.
The complaint does not specify the amount of compensation that Ekins-Coward and her spouse are seeking.
]]></description>
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    <title>Burning hydrogen tank capped at WaferTech in Camas</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-18T11:47:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.columbian.com/news/2016/dec/17/hazmat-team-responds-to-wafertech-after-report-of-hydrogen-leak/</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Flames erupting from a tank containing hydrogen, a highly explosive gas, caused some tense moments in Camas on Saturday afternoon.

The fire was reported at 1:48 p.m. at WaferTech, 5509 N.W. Parker St., near the western edge of Camas. Firefighters from Camas-Washougal and Vancouver responded to the fire, alongside a hazmat team from Linde Inc., the industrial gas supplier that owns the tank.

Crews reportedly arrived and sprayed the nearly 3,000-gallon tank with large-diameter jets of water in order to keep the tank cool. The tank vented, releasing what fire officials called a “large cloud of hydrogen vapor.” The venting gas was not ignited.

With the tank vented and depressurized, crews were then able to cap the tank at approximately 2:45 p.m.

The cause of the fire is not yet known. Nobody was reported injured. WaferTech spokesperson Christa Hammack said fewer than 20 employees in nearby buildings were evacuated.

WaferTech, a maker of custom integrated circuits, uses hydrogen in its manufacturing process. Several large tanks are visible from the northern part of the WaferTech property along Northwest Lake Road. Hammack said its possible the incident could set back production slightly.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/chemical-leak-at-altona-mobil-plant/news-story/03e249fb1b51558ca314f6e6e6cae81b">
    <title>Chemical leak at Altona Mobil plant</title>
    <dc:date>2016-11-24T22:07:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/chemical-leak-at-altona-mobil-plant/news-story/03e249fb1b51558ca314f6e6e6cae81b</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[FIRE crews are working to contain a chemical leak at the Mobil plant in Altona this morning.

The MFB received a call around 3.00am and expect to be on the scene for some time yet as the leak cannot be isolated.

The leak was identified as a mixture of Hydrogen and Naptha, a general term used for many flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixtures.

Extra appliances were requested including specialist Hazmat crews.

Mobil crews are working to replace the contents of the pipe with Nitrogen which would allow the leak to be sealed.

Almost 30 firefighters in breathing masks are working to disperse the product with water sprays.

Crews expect to be on scene for an extended period of time.

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    <title>Peak Sound Pressure Levels and Associated Auditory Risk from an H2–Air “Egg-Splosion”</title>
    <dc:date>2016-10-14T10:52:19+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The noise level from exploding chemical demonstrations and the effect they could have on audiences, especially young children, needs attention. Auditory risk from H2–O2 balloon explosions have been studied, but no studies have been done on H2–air “egg-splosions”. The peak sound pressure level (SPL) was measured for the first time and compared to the recommended SPL limits and some recently published work. All peak SPL results ended above 125 dB, some greater than 150 dB. The SPL results exceeded the World Health Organization (WHO) safe limits of 120 dB for children and 140 dB for adults.

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    <title>University of Hawaii fine lowered 40% for lab explosion</title>
    <dc:date>2016-10-11T11:32:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://cen.acs.org/articles/94/web/2016/10/University-Hawaii-fine-lowered-40.html</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The University of Hawaii last week settled its case with the Hawaii Occupational Safety & Health Division (HIOSH) regarding a laboratory explosion in March. The settlement reduces the number of violations from 15 to nine and the fine from $115,500 to $69,300.
Postdoctoral researcher Thea Ekins-Coward, who worked on the university’s Manoa campus for the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, lost one of her arms in the explosion. When the blast occurred, she was preparing a gas mixture of 55% hydrogen, 38% oxygen, and 7% carbon dioxide to feed to bacteria to produce biofuels and bioplastics. An electrostatic discharge likely ignited the mixture, according to an investigation report issued in July by the University of California Center for Laboratory Safety.
The settlement agreement combines similar violations, including two regarding laboratory exits and, separately, four centering on an inadequate chemical hygiene plan. The reduction in overall number of violations, which were assessed the maximum state penalty of $7,700 each, resulted in the reduced fine. The agreement also revised some wording in the violation descriptions.
“The penalty reduction is in consideration of the employer’s prompt abatement of the cited hazards and efforts to prevent their recurrence,” the settlement agreement says.
“The university is working diligently to address the remaining violations, further strengthen the culture of safety, and foster an environment where hazard recognition and risk assessment are the standard of care for all activities,” the university says in a statement.
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    <title>University of Hawaii fined $115,500 for lab explosion</title>
    <dc:date>2016-09-24T11:19:46+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The University of Hawaii faces a total $115,500 fine for 15 workplace safety violations after a laboratory explosion in March on the university’s Manoa campus. Postdoctoral researcher Thea Ekins-Coward, who worked for the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, lost one of her arms in the explosion.
Ekins-Coward was preparing a gas mixture of 55% hydrogen, 38% oxygen, and 7% carbon dioxide when an electrostatic discharge likely ignited the mixture, according to an investigation report issued in July by the University of California Center for Laboratory Safety. The gas mixture was to be used to feed bacteria to produce biofuels and bioplastics. The gases were combined in a 49-L steel tank designed for compressed air and not electrically grounded.
The safety violations cited by the Hawaii Occupational Safety & Health Division (HIOSH) include failing to do the following: reduce employee exposure to potential explosion and fire hazards, ensure safety practices were followed, perform periodic inspections to identify hazards, ensure employees wore appropriate personal protective equipment, make use of standard operating procedures, and require suitable exits from the laboratory.
HIOSH labeled all 15 violations as “serious” and assessed the maximum state penalty of $7,700 to each. The university must fix the violations by Oct. 21.
The university “will be requesting an informal conference with HIOSH to clarify the citations and discuss adjustments of the citations, as provided for in the HIOSH citations process,” according to a statement from the university. “Safety officers and leadership have been working diligently to further strengthen the culture of safety on the Manoa campus and foster an environment where hazard recognition and risk assessment are the standard of care for all activities,” the statement adds.
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    <title>Line ruptures, sparking fire at oil refinery in Bossier Parish</title>
    <dc:date>2016-08-21T10:48:00+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[BOSSIER PARISH, LA (KSLA) -
A high-pressure hydrogen line ruptured, causing what sounded like an explosion and sparking a fire Saturday morning at an oil refinery in Bossier Parish.

Bossier Parish Fire District 1 firefighters arrived on the scene shortly after 10 a.m. at Calumet Princeton Refining off Louisiana Highway 157.

Police say the fire was contained quickly and nobody was injured.

Police believe an equipment issue caused the rupture.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An explosion at a University of Hawaii Mānoa laboratory that took the arm of a visiting postdoctoral researcher was likely caused by static discharge, according to the results of an independent investigation.
The University of California Center for Laboratory Safety has released two reports outlining its findings and providing recommendations on how the university and other research institutions can improve laboratory safety.

Investigators also noted that certain safety failings might have played a role in the incident. 'While it could be argued that the experimental circumstances in the POST 30 lab were unique, the Investigative Team concludes that serious deficiencies in the institution’s approach to laboratory safety contributed to a lapse in proper risk assessment and lack of a culture of safety that ultimately led to the accident,' they say in one of the reports.

The explosion occurred in March at the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute biofuels research laboratory, when visiting research fellow, Thea Ekins-Coward, was transferring hydrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide into a low-pressure gas tank to make a growth medium for cells.]]></description>
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    <title>University of Hawaii Has Safety Experts Review Lab Explosion</title>
    <dc:date>2016-04-05T09:46:12+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The University of Hawaii has asked independent safety experts to investigate what caused a laboratory explosion last month that seriously injured a visiting researcher.

The school said Monday that the University of California Center for Laboratory Safety will look into the March 16 blast. A team from the center was on the University of Hawaii's flagship Manoa campus last week.

The investigation is expected to be completed by the end of the month.

The university says the explosion occurred when a researcher was growing cells by feeding them a mixture of low-pressure hydrogen, carbon dioxide and oxygen.

The school says the same process has been used almost daily and without incident since 2008 at a lab that's part of the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute.]]></description>
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    <title>Fatal lab blast blew workers off their chairs, Courts &amp; Crime News &amp; Top Stories</title>
    <dc:date>2016-03-29T11:53:57+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An explosion at a Jurong industrial gas supply firm in October last year was so powerful that it blew two workers off their chairs and caused part of the ceiling to collapse, a coroner's court heard yesterday.

Madam Lim Siaw Chian, a 30-year-old chemist at Leeden National Oxygen, died in the ensuing blaze amid further explosions.

At the time, she had just returned to work from maternity leave.

Seven employees were reportedly hurt in the fire which engulfed the ground-floor laboratory at the firm in Tanjong Kling Road.

Madam Lim's charred remains were found on six occasions, over a two-month period, and were identified via her infant daughter's DNA, the court heard on the first day of the inquiry into Madam Lim's death.

Police investigator Mohammad Amin Majid told the court that investigations by the Singapore Civil Defence Force and the Ministry of Manpower into the cause of the blaze have yet to be completed.

State Coroner Marvin Bay adjourned the hearing to April 15.

The inquiry heard that Madam Lim, who was also known as Krysten, was working at Leeden's Specialty Gas Centre Quality Control Laboratory when the fire broke out on Oct 12 last year.

Work in the 35 sq m lab includes testing and analysing gases.

Leeden is involved in the storage, mixing and bottling of industrial gases such as hydrogen, helium, nitrogen and argon, for supply to shipyards and industrial firms.

At about 9.20am, a worker who was in the lab saw a flash of fire, heard an explosion and saw the ceiling collapse. He ran out of the room immediately.

Two other workers fell off their chairs because of the blast.]]></description>
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    <title>Researcher loses arm in UH lab explosion; blast cause not yet kn</title>
    <dc:date>2016-03-17T12:36:10+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Officials say the 29-year-old researcher seriously injured in an explosion at a University of Hawaii lab Wednesday was conducting a routine experiment and handling relatively stable compounds when something went very wrong.

"Something happened out of the ordinary and we don't know what that is yet," Brian Taylor, dean of UH-Manoa's School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, told reporters at a news conference Thursday.

Post-doctoral fellow Thea Ekins-Coward lost an arm and suffered other injuries in the explosion, which happened about 6 p.m. Wednesday in a basement lab at the Pacific Ocean Sciences and Technology Building. 

On Thursday, engineers determined the building where the explosion occurred remains structurally sound, and employees and students will be allowed to return Friday.

The university is reviewing its protocols and safety procedures in the wake of the explosion, and reaching out to experts nationally for assistance on the investigation.

Ekins-Coward was conducting a routine experiment -- something that had been done every day since 2008 -- when the explosion happened in the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute lab, UH officials said. They said she was working with hydrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide.

People nearby who heard the explosion weren't sure what it was.

"It felt like something huge that was dropped on the floor. It was unusually loud," said teaching assistant Stacy Takeshita.

Gerald Lau, who was in his third floor office in the Pacific Ocean and Science Building, said it "sounded like a big thud."

Lau said employees and students started to check the building to make sure everyone was OK. "That's when one of our students came up from the bottom from the ground floor and said someone was hurt and there was an explosion in the basement," he said.

Two Department of Public Safety officers and a graduate student rushed to get the young woman out of the lab. "We're extremely grateful to those first three responders who acted so quickly," Taylor said.

The university's chancellor said the labs are inspected annually, and that the lab in question passed an evaluation in January.]]></description>
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    <title>Congressman Gene Green calls for OSHA investigation into fire at Petrobras’ Pasadena refinery</title>
    <dc:date>2016-03-12T14:51:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/pasadena/news/congressman-gene-green-calls-for-osha-investigation-into-fire-at/article_1b1b3171-3344-5c5b-a0a3-ebadab638370.html</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Texas Congressman Gene Green is calling on officials from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to conduct a formal investigation into an explosion at a Pasadena refinery that sent one worker to the hospital to be treated for burns.
On Saturday (March 5), emergency crews at Pasadena Refining Systems Inc. (PRSI) were dispatched after flames broke at the Hydrogen Desulphurization Unit at the plant, located at 111 Red Bluff Rd. Heavy black smoke from the explosion caused portions of the Houston Ship Channel to be closed down for roughly three hours while U.S. Coast Guard hazmat teams investigated for any possible chemical release in the air or any impact on the ship channel. The Washburn tunnel also had to be closed until the flames were under control.
“The fire was contained and the facility managers have reported that the plant is in safe condition. This incident, however, is the latest in a series of accidents at the PRSI plant that have resulted in injuries to facility workers,” Congressman Green wrote in a letter to Assistant Secretary of Labor David Michaels on March 10.
An investigation by OSHA officials uncovered 24 violations at PRSI which resulted in fines totaling $100,000 for initial penalties. The plant was again fined again in 2012 for an earlier fire in December 2011, Green pointed out in his letter.
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    <title>OSHA cites biofuel company over hydrogen gas explosion</title>
    <dc:date>2016-03-08T12:14:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/mar/7/osha-cites-biofuel-company-over-hydrogen-gas-explo/</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[GEISMAR, La. (AP) - The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined a Geismar biodiesel plant $70,000 and has cited a biofuels company over a September hydrogen gas explosion.

The Advocate (http://bit.ly/1StvwTz ) reports that OSHA also cited Renewable Energy Group, an Iowa-based biofuels producer, on Thursday with three willful safety violations over the company’s alleged failure to ensure that a flammable chemical was no longer in a plant pipeline that was under repair.

An OSHA field operations manual states that a willful violation means a company demonstrated disregard or indifference to employee safety.

REG spokesman Anthony Hulen says the company disagrees with OSHA’s findings and the classification of the citation. Hulen says the company will contest the citation. OSHA officials were not available for comment.

The Sept. 3 explosion injured four workers.]]></description>
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    <title>1 injured in fire at troubled Pasadena plant</title>
    <dc:date>2016-03-06T14:09:23+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[One person was injured when an explosion at a Pasadena refinery sent plumes of smoke into the air and first responders scrambling to the scene Saturday morning.
The fire started at the Pasadena Refinery System plant at 10:15 AM at the hydrogen desulfurization unit. Mark Berlinger, health and safety manager for the company, said the fire was contained and the facility was in a "safe condition." 
The company and Harris County Pollution Control did air monitoring and found "no indications of any off-site impacts," according to Berlinger.
The Houston Ship Channel closed briefly as Coast Guard hazmat teams also investigated the scene for any impact from possible chemical release in the air or any impact on the waterways. It has since reopened.
The injured worker was taken to the hospital for flash burns to his hand. Berlinger said the worker was responsive at the scene and talking to co-workers.
Officials abruptly ended the press conference after four minutes and refused to answer questions about how many workers were in the area at the time of the incident or whether the fire was preceded by an explosion. They also did not address questions about neighbors' concerns regarding the plant's operations or the facility's expired Title 5 permit.
The company has a long history of safety and pollution violations, including a previous December 2011 explosion and $1.1 million in fines since 2010 from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
"Everybody knows that place is a ticking time bomb," said Mike Boydston, a 16-year veteran of the industrial east side, who works at the nearby Kinder Morgan tank farm. "I mean, look at it. I quit going in there. I refuse."]]></description>
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    <title>Nanoscale system reaches perfect efficiency for solar fuel production step</title>
    <dc:date>2016-02-23T12:25:09+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A major goal in renewable energy research is to harvest the energy of the sun to convert water into hydrogen gas, a storable fuel. Now, with a nanoparticle-based system, researchers have set a record for one of the half-reactions in this process, reporting 100% efficiency for the reduction of water to hydrogen (Nano Lett. 2016, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b04813).
To make such water-splitting systems, researchers must find the right materials to absorb light and catalyze the splitting of water into hydrogen and oxygen. The two half-reactions in this process—the reduction of water to hydrogen gas, and the oxidation of water to oxygen gas—must be isolated from each other so their products don’t react and explode. “Completing the cycle in an efficient, stable, safe fashion with earth-abundant elements is an ongoing challenge,” says chemist Nathan S. Lewis of Caltech, who was not involved in this study.
Until recently, the efficiency of the reduction step had maxed out at 60%. One challenge is that electrons and positive charges formed in the light absorption process can rapidly recombine, preventing the electrons from reducing water molecules to form hydrogen. To overcome this problem, several years ago, Lilac Amirav of Technion–Israel Institute of Technology and her colleagues designed a nanoparticle-based system (J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2010, DOI: 10.1021/jz100075c) that would physically separate the charges formed during photocatalysis.
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    <title>Deadly accident sounds alarm for safety in Chinese labs</title>
    <dc:date>2016-01-19T12:31:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2016/01/tsinghua-university-postdoc-death-accident-chinese-lab-safety</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Lab deaths
On 18 December, a fire broke out at a lab at Tsinghua’s chemistry department. Fire fighters investigating the incident found Meng Xiangjian, 32, who just joined Tsinghua for a postdoc in June 2014, dead.

Six days later, Tsinghua published the results of its investigation. The accident was caused by the explosion of a hydrogen tank in the lab, which seriously injured Meng’s leg and eventually led to his death in the fire. He was the only person working in the lab.

The Tsinghua accident is not an isolated incident. On 5 April 2015, a gas explosion killed one graduate student and injured four others in a chemistry lab at the China University of Mining and Technology located in the eastern Chinese city of Xuzhou. On 22 September 2015, a Peking University chemistry building caught fire after a hydrogen tank leaked. The fire did not result in any injuries. A fire that broke out at a lab at the Beijing University of Chemical Technology last Monday was blamed on ageing equipment.

Poor management
The fact that Meng was working alone points to a poor safety culture at the lab. There should be at least two people working in a lab in case of an accident, Luo tells Chemistry World.

Meng obtained his PhD at Nanyang Technology University (NTU) in Singapore in 2014. ‘I had a chance to use NTU labs recently and learned it has very strong safety training among its students and faculties,’ says Luo, who is currently a visiting scholar at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. Luo suggests that the accident shouldn’t be blamed on Meng. Rather, the biggest culprit is likely to be poor lab safety management, and the accident could likely have been avoided by more frequent equipment inspections.

Yin Yanzi, a postdoc researcher at Cornell University and formerly an associate professor of materials chemistry at Hubei University of Technology in central China, says that, compared with labs in the US, Chinese labs generally have poor safety and less sophisticated safety equipment. Yin cites the simple example of tap water for cleaning equipment. Most US labs have faucets which can be directed as needed to clean glassware, but in most Chinese labs the taps are similar to those found in the home. Yin says that the inconvenience of something small like this can result in researchers removing gloves and other protective equipment. ‘Is it too expensive to install? Not at all.’

‘The problem is lab safety has never been prioritised’]]></description>
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    <title>China's Laboratory Safety Must be Highlighted, Improved</title>
    <dc:date>2015-12-27T15:16:56+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A funeral ceremony was held today for post-doctoral researcher Meng Xiangjian who was killed in a laboratory explosion last week at Tshinghua University.

The tragedy has triggered public concerns on laboratory safety in colleges and universities.

CRI's Qian Shanming has more.


 
Tsinghua University released the initial investigation results provided by Haidian Public Security Bureau a few days ago, which revealed that a hydrogen cylinder exploded accidentally, and the whole lab then caught fire. Meng Xiangjian died as the result of severe injuries to his leg.

It is not clear whether the cylinder itself had quality problems or that it had been badly stored.

Professor Wang Xiaojun from South China University of Technology says staff must pay attention to the safety of gas cylinders.

"Such high-pressure cylinders must go through security checks annually. If a cylinder is due to expire or may have air leak, it should not be used anymore."

Laboratory accidents have become more common in recent years. Back in 2008, a doctor candidate in Yunnan University suffered severe disfigurement and lost his feet and in an explosion during a microbiological experiment. Six months ago this year, a laboratory explosion at China University of Mining and Technology left one student dead and five others injured.

Associate professor Li Zhihong from Public Security and Fire Fighting Forces Academy has carried out a survey into the causes of 100 typical laboratory accidents. The results show 58 percent of the accidents were caused by human error.

"Human error includes violation of operation rules, careless or wrong operation, improper handling of experiment waste, and the improper storage of chemical reagents."

Other laboratory accidents are caused by aging experiment equipment, equipment failings and short circuits.

Wu Yiqun, a researcher with the Chinese Center For Disease Control And Prevention, says that while many institutes have storage and distribution regulations on hazardous articles, the problem is that few of them strictly follow the rules.]]></description>
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    <title>Postdoc dies in lab fire at Tsinghua University</title>
    <dc:date>2015-12-24T11:38:25+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A postdoctoral chemist has died following an explosion on 18 December in the chemistry department of Tsinghua University in Beijing. 

The researcher, Meng Xiangjian, died after a hydrogen storage cylinder unexpectedly exploded at 10.10 a.m. local time, according to a police report shared on the university's official Weibo social-media account. Images shared on social media showed black smoke billowing out of the window of the second floor of the red-brick Ho Tim building, in the centre of the university's Beijing campus; the fire was extinguished and other personnel evacuated, the university stated.

The university has not yet responded to requests for comment, but stated on Weibo that it had stopped using hydrogen gas cylinders of the same type and manufacturer, and had organized an expert committee to investigate the safety vulnerabilities of its campus and laboratories, particularly regarding the storage of dangerous chemicals. A police investigation is ongoing.

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    <title>Postdoctoral Researcher Killed In Fire At Tsinghua University</title>
    <dc:date>2015-12-23T12:13:09+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A postdoctoral researcher at Tsinghua University was killed in a Dec. 18 fire in a chemistry laboratory on the Beijing campus, according to a university statement on the Chinese microblogging site Weibo.
Local media report that the deceased researcher is Xiangjian Meng, 32. He received a Ph.D. from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in 2014.
As of C&EN press time, Tsinghua University had not released any details about the incident and chemistry department chair Xi Zhang did not respond to an e-mail request for information.
The Beijing work safety authority said that the incident happened during an experiment involving hydrogen, reported Xinhua, China’s official news agency, in a Dec. 19 story. Earlier reports that the incident involved tert-butyllithium were incorrect, according to a post from a relative of Meng on Weibo.
Exterior photos and video of Tsinghua’s Ho Tim building taken during the fire and posted online at on.cc show broken windows and heavy black smoke. An interior photo of the lab taken by a Beijing News reporter indicates heavy damage to the lab.]]></description>
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    <title>Oklahoma City-based LSB Industries discovers leak at Alabama chemical plant</title>
    <dc:date>2015-12-19T15:48:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://newsok.com/article/5467367</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Oklahoma City-based LSB Industries Inc. continues to suffer failures at its chemical plants.

The company on Thursday reported that the ammonia plant at its Cherokee, Ala., chemical facility was shut down for maintenance on Dec. 11 after a leak was discovered in a vessel containing hydrogen. The plant is expected to resume operation in about a week.

The shutdown is expected to reduce the company's fourth-quarter earnings by about $2.5 million to $3 million, LSB said.

Also, LSB's urea plant at its Pryor chemical facility was taken out of service on Nov. 14 for repair, the company said. Production is expected to resume next week, the company said.

Costly incident

That incident will cut LSB's fourth-quarter operating income by about $3 million to $3.5 million, the company said. However, about $1 million of that is expected to be recouped in the first quarter next year through the sale of surplus ammonia, LSB said.]]></description>
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