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BASF fire causes hazmat incident | The Suffolk News-Herald
january 2011 by dchas
A smoldering fire in a piece of equipment at the BASF plant on Wilroy Road on Monday morning resulted in a hazardous materials response by Suffolk emergency crews.
City firefighters, rescue personnel and police responded at about 10:56 a.m. to a report of a fire in the company’s Acrylamide processing plant.
A fire alarm and automatic shutdown were activated when sensors indicated a rise in the temperature of a thermal oxidizer pollution control device, according to Patrick Hochstrasser, BASF’s Suffolk site manager.
The plant was shut down and its personnel were evacuated to another location on the BASF site while company and city emergency workers extinguished the fire.
“There were no employee exposures or injuries, and air monitoring results at the plant site and along the fence line were normal,” Hochstrasser said in a press release late Monday. “Damage was minimal.”
The smoldering thermal oxidizer would have released some volume of acrylonitrile, a chemical that is listed by the National Fire Protection Association as being flammable, reactive and toxic.
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City firefighters, rescue personnel and police responded at about 10:56 a.m. to a report of a fire in the company’s Acrylamide processing plant.
A fire alarm and automatic shutdown were activated when sensors indicated a rise in the temperature of a thermal oxidizer pollution control device, according to Patrick Hochstrasser, BASF’s Suffolk site manager.
The plant was shut down and its personnel were evacuated to another location on the BASF site while company and city emergency workers extinguished the fire.
“There were no employee exposures or injuries, and air monitoring results at the plant site and along the fence line were normal,” Hochstrasser said in a press release late Monday. “Damage was minimal.”
The smoldering thermal oxidizer would have released some volume of acrylonitrile, a chemical that is listed by the National Fire Protection Association as being flammable, reactive and toxic.
january 2011 by dchas
us_nc: Piedmont truck stop, fast-food restaurant shut down by chemical leak
june 2010 by dchas
PIEDMONT — A truck stop off Interstate 85 in Piedmont was closed for several hours Wednesday while a hazardous materials team tried to plug a chemical leaking from a tanker truck, firefighters said.
Anderson County Fire Chief Billy Gibson identified the chemical that closed Pilot Travel Centers at Exit 35 as acrylonitrile, a polymer used in the making of plastics and resins.
No injuries were reported.
The truck center at that exit includes a McDonald’s Restaurant, which was also temporarily closed.
A truck driver discovered the leak and reported it after parking his rig overnight at the truck stop, Gibson said. The leak could be linked to a valve and could have been caused by too much pressure, he said.
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Anderson County Fire Chief Billy Gibson identified the chemical that closed Pilot Travel Centers at Exit 35 as acrylonitrile, a polymer used in the making of plastics and resins.
No injuries were reported.
The truck center at that exit includes a McDonald’s Restaurant, which was also temporarily closed.
A truck driver discovered the leak and reported it after parking his rig overnight at the truck stop, Gibson said. The leak could be linked to a valve and could have been caused by too much pressure, he said.
june 2010 by dchas
us_sc: Minor Injuries Reported After Chemical Spill In Anderson Co.
may 2010 by dchas
PIEDMONT, S.C. --
EMS and Anderson Fire Officials treated a firefighter for heat exhaustion while hospital officials treated a gas station employee for chemical exposure after a truck driver found an acrylonitrile leak Wednesday morning.
The leak, reported at a 110 Frontage Road Pilot truck stop off exit 36 from I-85, shut down the truck stop for hours as officials patched it and cleaned up.
The driver discovered the leak after sleeping in his tanker truck carrying the chemical when he woke up Wednesday morning.
He put a bucket under the leak, which Anderson Fire Chief Billy Gibson said a valve caused, and called first responders.
Anderson County’s Hazmat Team responded, along with Anderson Fire, EMS and the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office.
A gas station maintenance worker came in contact with the chemical. Gibson said the chemical causes a burning sensation and irritation.
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EMS and Anderson Fire Officials treated a firefighter for heat exhaustion while hospital officials treated a gas station employee for chemical exposure after a truck driver found an acrylonitrile leak Wednesday morning.
The leak, reported at a 110 Frontage Road Pilot truck stop off exit 36 from I-85, shut down the truck stop for hours as officials patched it and cleaned up.
The driver discovered the leak after sleeping in his tanker truck carrying the chemical when he woke up Wednesday morning.
He put a bucket under the leak, which Anderson Fire Chief Billy Gibson said a valve caused, and called first responders.
Anderson County’s Hazmat Team responded, along with Anderson Fire, EMS and the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office.
A gas station maintenance worker came in contact with the chemical. Gibson said the chemical causes a burning sensation and irritation.
may 2010 by dchas
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