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    <title>Chemical Safety Board finalizes two fatal accident investigations</title>
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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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    <title>Leak of highly toxic chemical gas causes road closure in Hsinchu County – Taiwan English News</title>
    <dc:date>2021-01-27T11:18:23+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Firefighters closed a section of road in Hsinchu County for three hours after a gas cylinder being transported from the Hsinchu Science Park caught fire while leaking highly volatile silane gas today, January 26.

The Hsinchu County Fire Bureau received a report that a gas cylinder on a truck was emitting flame, and thick, yellow smoke on Shuangyuan Road in Baoshan Township at 8:54 am.

Fire fighters sprayed water on the cylinder, while police closed pedestrian and vehicular traffic in both directions.

Personnel from Taiwan’s Environmental Protection Agency Toxic and Chemical Substances Bureau, and Hsinchu Science Park’s Environmental Safety Group were dispatched to the scene to assist and supervise operations.

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    <title>UAPD: Electrical Computer Engineering building evacuates due to chemical gas leak</title>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The University of Arizona Police Department is investigating a chemical gas leak on campus Tuesday.

The Electrical Computer Engineering building on Speedway has evacuated, according to UAPD.

Tucson Fire Department worked alongside UAPD to find and seal a silane gas leak, according to TFD. The building has been secured.

Anyone in the area is asked to avoid 2nd Street and Palm Drive, and to follow the direction of emergency personnel on scene.

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    <title>Five workers suffer chemical burns at Wacker plant in Bradley County</title>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Five workers suffered chemical burns Wednesday from a release at the Wacker Polysilicon plant in northern Bradley County.

One worker was flown to Erlanger hospital in Chattanooga via Life Force, and four others were taken by ambulance to a hospital, Bradley County authorities said.

The Bradley County Sheriff's Office dispelled rumors of an explosion and said there was no danger to the community. An employee at nearby Walker Valley High School said school officials had not been warned of any danger or instructed to take protective measures.

The $2.5 billion plant manufactures hyperpure polysilicon in the manufacturing of solar panels. Work is underway now on a $150 million expansion.

William J. Toth, director of corporate communications and compliance for Wacker Chemical, said via email the accident happened around 11:45 a.m. Wednesday when "a small chemical release of silane was detected while performing routine maintenance."

Silane is a highly flammable compressed gas used in manufacturing. Federal Material Safety Data Sheets show the chemical may explode when mixed with air, or cause burns or frostbite if the rapidly expanding gas touches skin. It also is harmful if inhaled because it can displace oxygen and cause rapid suffocation.

Toth's email did not say how the release happened. It said the plant's incident response team was sent to the area and contained the release. It's not clear whether the workers doing maintenance or the response team members were the ones injured.]]></description>
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    <title>Updated: Chemical Reaction Causes Fire at Micron</title>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013 fire and rescue units from the City of Manassas, Manassas Park, and Prince William County responded to a fire in a storage building at Micron Technology, Inc.

Two Micron employees were preparing discarded materials for removal in the storage building, located on Nokesville Road near Technology Drive, when they noticed smoke and flames coming from a large pile of fiberglass and plastic inside the facility.

First arriving units reported smoke coming from the building and encountered flames upon entering the structure. They extinguished the fire and damage was contained to a rear area of the building.

The Hazardous Materials Response Team from Prince William County also responded to the fire due to a possibility of chemicals being involved in the incident.

The Fire Marshal and Micron representatives determined that the fire was caused by a chemical reaction from a build-up of silane gas particles and ammonium nitrate inside of a discarded piece of pipe that was used in the manufacturing process at Micron and placed at the bottom of the debris pile.]]></description>
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    <title>Branchburg chemical fire was not serious, company says</title>
    <dc:date>2013-01-05T20:47:19+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[BRANCHBURG — A Meister Avenue chemical plant where a 55-gallon drum caught fire last week investigated the incident and determined that the community was never in any danger, according to company officials.
...At about 3:40 p.m. on Dec. 28, Voltaix employees were forced to evacuate the plant because of a working fire in a drum barrel, according to North Branch Volunteer Fire Dept. Chief David Hickson.

Hickson said one of the chemicals involved was "water reactive," which meant that water thrown onto the fire would actually feed the fire instead of extinguishing it, so fire officials monitored the fire remotely until it self-extinguished.

Wilkinson said the fire started after an employee started cleaning a piece of duct work that had built up material in it that caught on fire when it was exposed to air.

"We don't know exactly what happened, but we did stop all production when it happened, because we needed to find out the root cause before we could continue," he said.

Wilkinson said the elbow pipe that the employee was cleaning likely had a little pocket of Silane, or SiH2 residual, which burns spontaneously with air. 
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    <title>Chemical explosion causes minor damage at Lexington facility</title>
    <dc:date>2011-12-30T12:55:48+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Firefighters from Lexington and Hanscom Air Force Base responded to an industrial building on Hartwell Avenue on Thursday afternoon, Dec. 29, after a chemical explosion caused minor damage inside the facility, according to a Fire Department spokesperson.

No one was injured in the blast, which occurred just before 1 p.m. inside the building at 45 Hartwell Ave.

Fire Department Lt. Mark Ferreira said the explosion was caused by gas that leaked from a storage tank into ventilation ducts in the ceiling.

Ferreira said the tank was filled with silane gas, which can become flammable when it comes in contact with air. He said workers were replacing the tank today before the blast.

Ferreira said one worker was in the area when the chemical exploded, but was not injured. He said damage was contained to the ventilation ducts, and the fire did not spread through the building.

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    <title>UI lab evacuated briefly for gas leak | News-Gazette.com</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-11T11:46:52+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[URBANA — About 15 people were evacuated from a University of Illinois laboratory building for about 40 minutes after some gas reportedly leaked in one of the labs.

According to an Urbana Fire Department report, firefighters were called to the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, 208 N. Wright St., U, at 2:04 p.m. Monday to respond to a report of a gas leak.

Urbana Fire Department Division Chief Jeff McDuffy said people working in one of the labs were changing a bottle when some residual gas, identified as silane gas, began to escape, setting off an alarm.

McDuffy said the gas was contained within the lab room, and nobody was injured. Those evacuated from the building were allowed to return at about 2:45 p.m. Monday.

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    <title>US_WA: REC Silicon puts out small fire</title>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[MOSES LAKE — Neighbors were alerted to a small fire at REC Silicon Thursday morning.
“It was a fire inside of a wash station ... which is a piece of equipment used to wash other equipment,” said Plant Manager Jeff Johnson. “Because the fire sparked in the plant, we sounded the emergency system. That just how we do it.”
It was in the poly manufacturing plant, where silane gas is used to make polysilicon, which is a component used in electronic manufacturing.
The damage was described as minimal. Johnson said they will conduct a routine investigation to determine the start of the fire and extent of damage.
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