BOARDMAN, Ore. - Morrow County Sheriff's Deputies say an ammonia leak at a food processing plant in Boardman, Oregon sent seven people to the hospital overnight. The seven people were working at frozen food processor Lamb Weston/Con Agra on Columbia Avenue around 9:45 Tuesday night when the leak was reported. All seven were taken to Good Shepard Hospital in Hermiston. They were treated for respiratory distress and nausea and were released after a few hours. Crews had the leak contained and clean up complete around midnight. No word on a cause or if the processing plant will be open Wednesday.

An ammonia leak at a food distributor in Lebanon early Thursday morning required about 30 night shift employees to be evacuated for several hours.

Crews responded to the leak at Performance Food Group distribution center on Maddox Simpson Parkway around 2:45 a.m., Wilson County Emergency Management Agency director John Jewell said.

The leak didn’t elevate to dangerous levels, Jewell said. Crews turned off a series of valves to isolate the leak’s location and employees were allowed to return around 6 a.m.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- 
An explosion at a Volusia County business early Tuesday may have been caused by an ammonia leak, investigators said.
It happened around 3:30 a.m. at a Reddy Ice in the Airport Industrial Park, just south of New Smyrna Municipal Airport.

Hazardous materials crews shut down the industrial complex as they cleaned up the scene. The complex has since reopened.
According to New Smyrna Beach fire Chief David McAllister, a police officer was conducting his regular beat check Tuesday morning, when he said he smelled the unmistakable odor of ammonia.

CINCINNATI - Officials are investigating what led to an ammonia leak at the Madisonville Coca-Cola plant late Sunday night.

Hazardous material teams, rescue units and Cincinnati fire crews rushed to the Coca-Cola plant, 5100 Duck Creek Road, around 11:55 p.m. after employees reported an ammonia leak. Employees evacuated the building following the leak.

Northern Vanderburgh County farmer Randy Kron nervously grinned while explaining his plan this year to grow crops on about 2,000 acres across Southwestern Indiana.

Kron said he took a gamble by starting the growing season early. This year's warmer temps and sunnier skies put him roughly a month ahead of schedule to plant corn. By Easter weekend, the majority of his crop was planted and the anhydrous ammonia applied.

Kron said hopefully his luck with temperatures will be the same as keeping the ammonia out of the hands of eager old-fashioned methamphetamine cooks.

Four years ago, the white cylindrical wagons he uses to apply the ammonia were a target for meth cooks. But this year, Kron said ,he's had more time to worry about the weather. Law enforcement and anhydrous co-op managers around the region said the same.

Today, more meth cooks continue to opt for the more portable one-pot method than risk stealing the ammonia from area farms. And with a new additive to help early planting tainting supplies, anhydrous thefts have been nonexistent. But like the weather, members of the Evansville-Vanderburgh County Drug Task Force said it may be too early to determine the impact.

Over the past two years, the one-pot meth lab surpassed the larger and more confusing anhydrous version. Meth cooks now use a first-aid cold pack to create the ammonia they once stole. The new method brought the drug manufacture into urban areas such as Evansville, where there are more places to hide and supplies are available at most local drugstores.

"The one-pot method is more user-friendly, so more people tend to use it," said Brock Hensley, an Evansville Police Department detective assigned to the Drug Task Force. "But it may be too early to tell."

An ammonia leak from a large cylinder tank Sunday morning at the St. Johns County Water Treatment Plant in the 200 block of Water Plant Road forced a local Hazardous Material team response and the shuttering of some nearby homes.

A call from a plant employee reached St. Johns County Fire Rescue Sunday at about 10:45 a.m., Fire Rescue spokesman Jeremy Robshaw said Sunday.

Robshaw said both emergency personnel and the specialized HAZMAT unit of St. Johns County Fire Rescue safely evacuated one employee from the plant. The employee did not need medical attention, Robshaw said.

Fire Rescue did not evacuate any nearby residents, but asked a handful of people downwind of the leaked chemical — anhydrous ammonia — to close the windows and doors to their homes.

April 3, 2012 | AP  Authorities say an ammonia leak forced the evacuation of a business in southwestern Michigan. The leak happened Tuesday morning inside a freezer at a Total Logistic Control facility near Holland. No injuries were reported. Authorities say the leak was contained to the freezer at the facility, which is used for cooling and distribution of fruit that's grown in the area.

An ammonia leak at the Birds Eye Foods plant in Waseca caused employees to evacuate.

Fire Chief Gary Conrath says the source of the leak Wednesday evening was a gasket on some equipment in the compressor room. Employees were later allowed to return to the building after it was ventilated.

The Helena Fire Department was dispatched to the Carroll College campus on Wednesday afternoon after a member of the college janitorial staff found a bottle with an unknown substance and opened it.

The person then reportedly smelled the substance, and sustained "unspecified injuries" and sought treatment at St. Peter's Hospital.

The bottle was then closed and removed to the Fortin Science Building to be identified by staff.

Hazardous materials technicians from the Helena Fire Department assisted staff in attempting to identify the substance.

The substance was identified on Wednesday night as a commercial-grade ammonia that is typically used as a cleaning agent.

A press release from the Helena Fire Department on Thursday morning states that there was no danger to the students, staff, or the general public after the initial incident took place.

NANJING - An explosion early Tuesday at a chemical plant in a city on China's east coast has injured two people and left another two missing, according to local authorities.
The blast occurred in Lianyungang Taiyi Fine Chemical Factory in Donghai county in Lianyungang city, Jiangsu Province, a spokesperson for the county government said.
Firefighters are still searching for the missing in the plant, the spokesperson added.
The windows and doors of a school situated 700 meters away from the chemical facility were severely damaged, but no students were hurt as the explosion happened early morning, outside of school hours.
The school's classes have been suspended and will resume Tuesday afternoon.
The explosion caused the leakage of 250 kg of ammonia, which has been diluted with water and will not affect the environment, according to the spokesperson.

WOODBRIDGE, Va. --
Hazmat officials responded to a ammonia leak on the 15000 block of Farm Creek Drive in Woodbridge on Friday, police said.

A pressurized 4-feet-tall, 150 pound ammonia cylinder fell off a truck at 1:32 p.m. and caused a small leak, according to Prince William Fire and Rescue Hazmat Coordinator Matt Adkins.

The neck of the cylinder broke on impact as it landed on the road.  Hazmat officials utilized various tools, such as air quality meters, to ensure the area was safe, officials said.

Adkins said that the low amount of ammonia released did not pose an explosion or other threat to area residents.  Those who lived near the incident were asked to remain where they were instead of evacuating, he added

Two people went to the hospital with minor chemical burns after a dispute at 1019 Roosevelt Ave. Thursday night.

Several gallon jugs of cleaning fluid spilled and were thrown during the dispute, leaving the smell of ammonia in the apartment building were the dispute occurred. Around 11 p.m. Thursday, people were moving belongings out and opening windows at the building.

About nine or 10 people were displaced until the building was cleaned and aired out, said Edwardsville Deputy Fire Chief Frank Slymock. The Red Cross was not contacted and building management said it would help the displaced people for the night, he said.

Exposure to the chemicals is not life-threatening, but could be harmful to people with asthma or breathing problems, Slymock said.

McLEAN — A man suffered chemical burns Friday night when he was splashed with anhydrous ammonia near McLean, authorities said.
The man was filling tanks with the fertilizer about 7 p.m. at J & A Farms, 9641 E. 200 North Road, when he was sprayed by a leaky valve, said Mount Hope-Funks Grove Fire Chief Eric Fulk. The man suffered “significant burns” and was taken to Advocate BroMenn Medical Center, Normal, Fulk said.
The man’s name was not released, and his medical condition was not available.
The nitrogen-rich fertilizer forms a caustic alkali when it comes in contact with water, so it is especially dangerous to skin, eyes, lungs or other moist tissues.

he source of an odor coming from the Aqua Ohio plant off of state Route 170 has been identified.

Poland Township police officers, along with crews from the Western Reserve Joint Fire District and HazMat were dispatched to the facility around 11 p.m. Sunday after receiving reports about a smell.

Officials said the smell was the result of a three-gallon leak of double concentrated ammonia. That's the equivalent of approximately five to six gallons of household strength ammonia.

The leak did go into a containment tank, however, officials said the area was thoroughly checked and the spill was diluted with 1,000 gallons of water.  They added that no one or the water supply was ever in any danger.

WHITTEN, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a valve malfunction may have a caused an anhydrous ammonia spill at a grain elevator in Whitten in northern Iowa.

The Times-Republican in Marshalltown says three supply tanks began leaking at the Mid-Iowa Co-Op late Tuesday morning.

Gundy County Sheriff Rick Penning estimates they spilled about 80 percent of their 28,000 gallons by the time a hazardous materials crew got the leak under control Tuesday afternoon.

No one was hurt and no evacuations were ordered, but a nearby highway was closed for most of the day.

Penning says a vapor cloud created by the fertilizer quickly dissipated in the strong wind.

WHITTEN - A hazardous material team has been dispatched to the Mid-Iowa Co-Op, in Whitten after an apparent valve malfunction caused three tanks of ammonia to begin leaking around 10 a.m. Tuesday.

The tank was still gushing as of 11:30 a.m., said Grundy County Sheriff Rick Penning, but the Hazmat team should arrive within an hour.

Although the Beaman and Conrad Fire Departments and Beaman-Conrad First Responders were on scene, the incident did not cause a fire or any injuries.

MANILA, Philippines (UPDATE) – At least 60 workers and residents in Zamboanga City were rushed to the hospital after an explosion at a fishing company ice plant triggered a chemical leak Wednesday night.

The workers and residents experienced nausea and vomiting due to a huge volume of ammonia that leaked from the ice plant of Leo Fishing Company in Barangay Ayala.

The leak also resulted in the evacuation of some 2,000 residents of the barangay.

The victims were brought to a nearby hospital and barangay health center to receive treatment.

The plant’s owner, Ismael Tan, said a heavy ice can fell into and damaged a pipe that distributes ammonia.

No one was injured Thursday when an ammonia leak at the Pepsi bottling plant on the Northeast Side caused the evacuation of two businesses.

San Antonio Fire Department Captain Troy Teague said the leak was called in around 3 p.m. and hazardous materials teams walked through the Pepsi facility and the neighboring Butter Krust Bakery to monitor the air quality.

By about 4:30 p.m., the scene was cleared and the evacuated employees were allowed to return.

A safety valve on a tank released the poisonous gas at the Pepsi plant but the plant's ventilation system moved it outside near the air conditioning intake for the bakery, Teague said.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — A leak of anhydrous ammonia at a Chattanooga chemical plant followed a small fire.

A spokesman for the Chattanooga Fire Department said a fire broke out early Tuesday in a pump used to move ammonia at the BASF Corporation plant. Tactical Services Chief Danny Hague said the plant's fire protection system extinguished the flames at about 4:30 a.m. EST. Workers detected a leak, however, and called 911.

 About 15 homes in Walsh have been evacuated after a tank filled with a farming chemical exploded this morning.

The tank, which was holding a form of ammonia, exploded on thesoutheast edge of the rural town, located in the southeast corner of Colorado, according to the Baca County Sheriff's Department.

No injuries have been reported.

Hazardous material crews are at the site and the area around the tank has been blocked off, according to the Colorado State Patrol.

SPRINGDALE, Ark. — Officials say workers were evacuated at two northwest Arkansas meat processing plants due to ammonia leaks.

Springdale plants owned by Cargill Inc. and Tyson Foods Inc. each evacuated workers Monday morning after apparently unrelated ammonia leaks.

Cargill plant manager Heath Ward told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (http://is.gd/aXqV1P ) that a pipe broke in an area of the plant where work was being done on the cooling system. About 500 workers were evacuated. Ward says no one was hurt.

A Tyson Foods spokesman said 10 workers were taken to a hospital as a precaution after a freezer line leak at the plant. The leak occurred at about 9:30 a.m. Fire officials cleared the plant for re-entry at 10:20 a.m. but the company was further evaluating conditions before bringing the 500 workers back in.

HAWKEYE, Iowa - An Fayette County deputy has been taken to a hospital after being exposed to a chemical cloud from a leaking anhydrous ammonia tank.

Emergency crews responded to the scene after 9 a.m. Wednesday morning.

The tank belongs to the Fredericksburg Farmers CO-OP, 102 North Burrell St., in Hawkeye. Roads leading up to the CO-OP were closed, but are now reopening, according to Fayette County Chief Deputy James Davis.

Fayette County Emergency Management Coordinator Randy Frank said the valve has been shut off and crews are working on cleaning up the chemicals.

The Hawkeye Fire Department was called about 9 a.m. this morning. A hazardous materials crew from Fayette County was on the scene.

Three members of staff were overcome by fumes when a fridge at a care home leaked ammonia gas.

Firefighters were called to the residential care unit at Clermiston House on Parkgrove Terrace in Edinburgh when the leak was spotted by night staff who noticed an unusual smell in a downstairs office at 4.15am on Thursday.

SAN FRANCISCO The owners of a South San Francisco salami plant will pay nearly $700,000 and overhaul its refrigeration system as part of a federal judgment stemming from an ammonia leak that sickened almost four dozen people.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Justice say Columbus Foods will pay the penalty for the August 2009 gas release without acknowledging wrongdoing. The sausage maker also agreed to spend $6 million upgrading its refrigeration system and improving emergency notification procedures.

Seventeen people were hospitalized and 30 others sought medical attention after built-up pressure caused a pipe to burst and sent 200 pounds of anhydrous ammonia into the air.

WARRICK CO., IN (WFIE) -
Five suspects have been arrested in what authorities are calling a two county drug ring.

Warrick County authorities arrested two people last night on meth related charges and Posey County Deputies say that lead them to three more suspects who investigators say were stealing anhydrous ammonia from the Posey County Co-Op.

Deputies say the two groups were working together and communicating through text messages.

That's how two arrests turned into five.

PHOENIX - Workers at the Amazon warehouse in southwest Phoenix were evacuated Tuesday after a hazmat scare.

According to the Phoenix Fire Department, three workers became lighthanded while unloading a 53-foot trailer.

Hazmat crews were dispatched to the scene and measured high ammonia readings inside the trailer. The building was evacuated as a precaution

HOUSTON -
Workers at a Dr. Pepper Bottling Plant in southwest Houston had to be evacuated after a chemical leak, according to Houston firefighters.

The hazmat team responded to a call for help at the plant on Holly Hall Street and Almeda Road just after 11:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Crews found a piece of machinery that was leaking ammonia. 
air in the bottling area. 

After three hours, workers were able to return to their stations. 

No one was hurt.

DADE CITY - Pasco fire and rescue crews are trying to cleanup an ammonia leak in Dade City.

Authorities tell us a half mile radius has been evacuated after a valve broke on a tank, spilling anhydrous ammonia near the Dade City Industrial Park just north of the downtown area.

As of now, the downtown area has not been evacuated.

Investigators tell us they’re trying to bleed off about 200 pounds out of a 500-pound tank.

CSX trains have also been rerouted from the area.

STAFF at a distribution centre in Redditch raised the alarm after a hazardous substance began leaking form a tank.

Workers at Langdons on Park Farm Industrial Estate on Studley Road noticed a strong smell of ammonia about 1.30am on Saturday (January 7) and alerted fire crews.

Firefighters wearing specialist chemical protective clothing went into the building to investigate and found the chemical leaking from a 1,000 litre tank in a plant room.

Using hose reels and a covering jet, they isolated the leak and ventilated the plant room affected.

Station commander Dave Holland, HWFRS’s Hazmat (hazardous materials) officer, said: “Duty staff had noticed a strong smell of ammonia from the plant room and so had safely evacuated the premises as our crews arrived.

A bolt of lightning has caused a fire at the problem-plagued Orica chemical plant in the New South Wales Hunter.

Lightning struck a stack of the Kooragang Island ammonia plant that was venting hydrogen, shortly after 10:00pm on Sunday.

Representatives from Orica and the Environmental Protection Authority are at the scene trying to extinguish the blaze.

The plant was re-opened last week, after it was closed late last year when it leaked the carcinogen hexavalent chromium.

An ammonia leak on a railroad car in the St. Johns neighborhood of North Portland prompted a hazmat response Wednesday morning.

Portland Fire & Rescue (PF&R) crews responded to the anhydrous ammonia leak, near 10627 N. Swift Court, a little after 10 a.m. 

A hazmat team initially approached the rail car, but their monitoring equipment detected such high concentrations of ammonia that the levels on their equipment maxed out. They were forced to withdraw and get additional protective clothing and equipment.

Eventually, hazmat technicians were able to re-approach the rail car and stop the leak, which had been caused by a malfunctioning pressure relief valve, PF&R reports.

The Grand Chute Fire Department says an ammonia leak at a cold storage business Thursday afternoon didn't pose a danger to the public.

The fire department says anhydrous ammonia was leaking from a pipe in the engine room at Americold on West Nordale Drive, creating three feet of ice on the floor.

Officials say about 35 employees had to be evacuated from the building and several nearby streets were shut down.

We're told the Appleton Hazmat team made three separate trips into the building to close all of the valves on the three ammonia pipes.

PORTLAND, Ore. - Emergency crews responded to a North Portland industrial area near Pier Park on Wednesday after a smell of ammonia was reported in the air.

The incident was centered in the 10600 block of North Swift Court.

Portland Fire Bureau crews found the source of the smell - anhydrous ammonia that was leaking from a railroad tanker. A spokesperson said the tank was empty but there was residual amounts of ammonia making its way into the air, possibly through a crack.

"Our standards say that at 300 parts per million ammonia becomes an immediate danger to life and health," said Tommy Schroeder with Portland Fire & Rescue. "Our meters pegged at 200 parts per million."

A hazardous materials incident in Redwood City Tuesday morning sent three Recology employees to the hospital and prompted the evacuation of several businesses, a city spokesman said.

Around 10 a.m., the Redwood City Fire Department received a 911 call reporting a hazardous materials spill in the 1500 block of Main Street, Redwood City spokesman Malcolm Smith said.

Firefighters from Redwood City, Belmont and Woodside responded, as did Redwood City police and the county hazardous materials team, Smith said.

Two Recology waste management garbage collectors had emptied a Dumpster into the garbage truck, Smith said. When they attempted to compress the materials with the truck, a white container burst, emitting a white fume, he said.

The two employees began feeling ill and vomiting. The Recology employees notified their supervisor, who called 911, Smith said.

Upon arriving at the scene, supervisor also began feeling ill, and all three were taken to a hospital, he said.

Four businesses on Main Street were evacuated and remained closed this afternoon while the hazardous materials team investigated the incident.

One of the chemicals has been identified as ammonia, and the hazardous materials team is continuing testing on the material in the back of the garbage truck, Smith said. Once the chemicals are determined, they will aim to neutralize them, he said.

A section of Main Street in downtown Redwood City remained closed to traffic between Chestnut Street and Pine Street Tuesday afternoon, and part of Pine Street was also closed.

MILLINGTON, Tenn. — A leaky valve connecting two ammonia tanks at Osmose, a wood-preservation plant on Fite Road, brought more than 20 Shelby County firefighters to the Millington-area plant after neighbors complained of breathing difficulties Thursday.

Shelby County Fire Department public information officer Brent Perkins said there were no injuries, and those who had noticed the ammonia odor at about 6:10 p.m. were monitored for blood pressure, heart rate and other vital signs. No one required treatment, Perkins said.

The leak was not significant enough to evacuate either the plant at 3450 Fite Road or any surrounding areas, Perkins said. Fire department personnel then used sensors to evaluate the area surrounding Fite and Woodstock roads .

A leaky valve connecting two ammonia tanks at Osmose, a wood-preservation plant on Fite Road, brought more than 20 Shelby County firefighters to the Millington-area plant after neighbors complained of breathing difficulties Thursday.

Shelby County Fire Department public information officer Brent Perkins said there were no injuries, and those who had noticed the ammonia odor at about 6:10 p.m. were monitored for blood pressure, heart rate and other vital signs. No one required treatment, Perkins said.

The leak was not significant enough to evacuate either the plant at 3450 Fite Road or any surrounding areas, Perkins said. Fire department personnel then used sensors to evaluate the area surrounding Fite and Woodstock roads.

Two people were severely injured while working at a vegetable packing shed when they were exposed to an anhydrous ammonia explosion at Yuma (AZ) Express Cooling. The explosion sent a shock wave from between two tanks, sending one man running out about ten feet in front of the shock wave and another behind him who was engulfed in the shock wave that, to a witness, picked him up off the ground for about five or six feet, until he finally hit the ground running again.

The plume of ammonia smoke was about 45 feet high. People who were evacuating a nearby building ran right into it when they exited. When the alarms started, people ran out all the exits, but they didn't know what they were getting into. The wind carried the wave toward the southeast where everybody was evacuating so they were actually running into the plume of ammonia. The first YFD units to arrive on scene found multiple victims with varied degrees of ammonia exposure. The most severe exposure victim was transported immediately to Yuma Regional Medical Center by a YFD Rescue truck.

An ammonia explosion Friday afternoon at Yuma Express Cooling resulted in 13 people being taken to hospitals, including two who were flown to treatment centers in Phoenix.

Yuma Fire Department has confirmed that several people were exposed to varied degrees of ammonia near Avenue 4E and Gila Ridge Road at about 4 p.m. Eleven patients were evaluated and taken to Yuma Regional Medical Center, spokesman Mike Erfert said.

In addition, three Yuma Fire Department and four Rural Metro personnel were also decontaminated and evaluated for their exposure to contaminated patients, Erfert said.

A hazmat team was at the scene to ensure the safety of those who were exposed. The facility was evacuated and leaks had been contained by Friday evening, Erfert siad.

Officials believe the ammonia leak resulted from a failure of a connection to a condensing coil on a cooling tower.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A West Side warehouse is evacuated for a small ammonia spill overnight Friday.

Columbus fire and its HAZMAT team responded to a cold-storage warehouse run by Capitol City Ice at 11:58 p.m. Thursday.

HAZMAT was called in because of an ammonia spill, caused by a leaking pump gasket on a 2-1/2-inch line.

Employees evacuated the building at 3080 Valleyview Dr.

Columbus fire told NBC4 about 12 to 15 gallons spilled.

An ammonia leak consumed emergency crews on Wednesday morning.

The leak occurred in the newly opened Westhills Arena at City Centre Park. It was discovered around 8 a.m.

Witnesses saw a large visible cloud of ammonia hovering over City Centre Park shortly after the leak was detected.

“We are asking that people stay away from the area,” said West Shore RCMP Cpl. Kathy Rochlitz while manning a road block on Langford Parkway.

All roads and pathways leading to City Centre Park were blocked off until shortly before 11:30 a.m.

Businesses in the area were evacuated.

New London — The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection said the chemical reaction reported at Lawrence & Memorial Hospital this afternoon was likely the result of an ammonia and bleach mixture, according to hospital spokesman Michael O’Farrell.
A hazardous materials team and the city fire department responded to the call, but O’Farrell said no one was injured and no evacuation was necessary. Most of the personnel who responded to the scene left by about 2:40 p.m.
O’Farrell said workers were renovating a walk-in cooler and used bleach to try to clean up an odor under a layer of flooring in the work area. Once the bleach was applied, O’Farrell said a “haze” rose from the floor and the work crew alerted hospital staff, who in turn called the New London Fire Department.

Three plumes of ammonia gas have leaked from the Orica chemical plant at Kooragang Island this afternoon - just hours after it was revealed the company would be prosecuted for a toxic leak in August at the same plant.

NSW Fire and Rescue said the gas was released in three blasts at 3.30pm.

Six fire units and Hazmat are on the scene.

No one has been injured or evacuated.

A spokesman for Fire and Rescue NSW said no chemicals had yet been detected by air quality monitors, while an Orica spokeswoman said the company was investigating the incident.

Earlier, the Environment Protection Authority announced that Orica would be prosecuted after hexavalent chromium belched into the air from the company's ammonium nitrate plant at Kooragang Island, near Newcastle, on August 8.

DAYTONA BEACH -- An ammonia leak had firefighters going door to door in a North Beach Street neighborhood warning residents to stay indoors until officials determined there was no longer a hazard.

Fire Department spokesman, Lt. Larry Stoney said fire crews responded to a chemical hazard call just after 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Tour Ice plant, 645 N. Beach St.

As they arrived firefighters noticed a white vapor coming from the service entrance, Stoney said. Plant employees told emergency crews an 8-foot-high, 600-pound anhydrous ammonia tank used for making ice was leaking.

Fire crews entered the building and closed several tank valves to prevent further leaks. However, they determined the leak was coming from another source and isolated that area before the leak could be stopped.

IRVINE, Calif. Officials at a Southern California nuclear plant searched for the cause of a non-radioactive ammonia leak that triggered an unusual emergency alert and precautionary evacuation of some workers before it was contained.

Officials stressed there was never any danger to the public.

Workers stopped the leak by 5 p.m. Tuesday, about two hours after it was detected in a storage tank in the water purification system of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station's Unit 3, said Todd Adler, the plant's engineering manager.

The emergency alert was required because fumes could prevent access to certain areas of the plant, Adler told reporters at a media information center in Irvine, Calif.

The alert, the second lowest of four federal classifications for emergencies at commercial nuclear power plants, was canceled at 6:07 p.m. and evacuated workers were allowed to return.

"It's a chemical spill that could happen at any industrial facility," Adler said.

The leak was in the non-nuclear section of the plant, which is operated by Southern California Edison. No radioactive material was released, no injuries were reported and there was no danger to the public, the company said.

Approximately 25 gallons of leaked ammonia were collected in a basin underneath the tank that was designed for that purpose, Edison spokeswoman Lauren Bartlett said.

North Wales firefighters were called at 14:23 BST on Saturday to deal with a fire in a refrigerator at an industrial unit at Lon Groes, Gaerwen, Anglesey.

People nearby were for a time urged to stay indoors and keep their windows and doors closed after some ammonia leaked into the atmosphere.

The fire service are investigating, but it is not thought to be suspicious.

A number of emergency vehicles were sent to the scene, including three fire engines from Bangor, Holyhead and Llangefni.

EAST HARTFORD — Police and fire crews responded to a minor ammonia leak at the Coca-Cola Bottling Company at 451 Main St., police said.

The incident was reported at 8:09 a.m. by Coca-Cola officials.

Fire Chief John Oates said the leak has been stopped and the Department of Environmental Protection is responding.

The ammonia, which is used as a refrigerant, leaked from piping outside the building, Oates said.

Four people are in the hospital after an explosion southwest of Goshen at T and T Fertilizer at the corner of County Road 40 and County Road 15.

It happened late this morning. Police say workers from Southwest Welding and T and T Fertilizer were welding a storage tank containing aqua ammonia when it exploded, spilling roughly 2,000 gallons of the substance.

Three of the workers injured in the explosion – males ages 16, 56 and 61 – were taken to Elkhart General Hospital with breathing problems. A 24-year-old man was taken by helicopter to South

WAXAHACHIE, Texas - A fire at a chemical plant south of Dallas shot massive plumes of black smoke and bright orange flames into the sky Monday, forcing schoolchildren and residents to evacuate or take cover indoors to avoid possible exposure to dangerous gases.

Flames engulfed what appeared to be several areas of a large complex at a Magnablend, Inc., facility in Waxahachie, about 30 miles south of Dallas. Images from local television stations showed the fast-moving blaze consuming a fire truck at the scene and flames nearing railroad tracks alongside the property.

The fire started just before 11 a.m., reports CBS Station KTVT.

According to the company website, Magnablend houses ammonia and other chemicals for industries ranging from oil fields to industrial cleaning, at the facility located just off of Highway 287 near Interstate-35E.

Magnablend Environmental Health and Safety Manager Donald Golden said the fire spread very rapidly. "Fire departments were on the scene pretty quickly, but it [the blaze] just seemed to take off and accelerate pretty quickly," he told KTVT,

Golden told WFAA-TV that the 25 to 30 employees who were inside a warehouse at the plant evacuated safely when the fire broke out.

Wallula An ammonia leak at the Tyson Foods in Wallula forced a temporary evacuation of part of the plant, but no injuries were reported.

Firefighters from Walla Walla Fire District 5 in Burbank were called to the plant around 10 a.m. for a hazardous material response in the mechanical room.

Chief Mike Wickstrom said a seal in a valve failed on an ammonia line, causing ammonia to get dumped onto the floor.

Two people were taken to hospital Thursday after they were exposed to ammonia at Scotiabank Place.

The building was evacuated after the chemical leak in the building's refrigeration room. The pipes were immediately shut off and Ottawa Fire Service's hazardous materials unit was called to the scene.

Paramedics said one man became trapped in an elevator near the leak after the fire alarm was pulled and as a result suffered a serious ammonia inhalation injury.

Another worker near the loading docks also had an asthma attack after exposure. Both were taken to hospital and were listed in stable condition.

Fire officials said the building had been completely checked and ventilated and allowed workers back into the building after about three hours. Some 500 people had been forced to leave the building.

A small anhydrous ammonia release was reported about 2 a.m. Thursday at the JR Davis Railyard in Roseville. The leak is not at a dangerous level, according to Roseville Fire, and firefighters are expected to have the leak stopped this morning.

The leak was reported by Union Pacific workers who smelled ammonia. Firefighters responded and determined that the release was caused by a faulty gasket and have the parts available to make the repair.

ATLANTA -- An ammonia spill at an Atlanta warehouse shortly after midnight Thursday forced 40 employees to evacuate.

Fulton County fire crews and a hazmat team from Atlanta worked to contain the spill at the Americold Logistics warehouse at 1740 Westgate Parkway SW.

The location is listed as a training center for Americold, a cold storage company.

There were no injuries reported.

A POTENTIALLY lethal chemical spill injured two workers at a factory yesterday prompting an evacuation and a massive response from emergency services.

Staff at Omega Foundry Machinery Ltd, in Stapledon Road, Orton Southgate, were forced to flee their building when a chemical, originally thought to be ammonia, oozed out of a broken pipe at about 11.30am yesterday.

Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue mobilized its specialist hazardous materials (hazmat) crews from St Neots as well as two other engines and a heavy rescue vehicle, with about 20 firefighters on the scene.

Two workers, who have not been named, were treated at the scene by paramedics for minor inhalation of fumes.

The hazmat team initially believed they were dealing with 50 litres of ammonia, but it was later confirmed to be about 10 litres and thought to be triethylamine.

The chemical is similar to ammonia and has a strong fishy odour which could be smelled on the industrial estate.

MURRYSVILLE, Pa. -- A Hazmat situation at a Murrysville business sent three people to the hospital on Thursday, emergency officials said.
Westmoreland County 911 dispatchers said about 20 gallons of ammonia spilled at Murrysville General Product and Supply.
Emergency officials said the building on Technology Drive was evacuated after the spill.
There is no word on the names and conditions of the

CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - Dozens of firefighters responded to a business in southwest Charlotte after ammonia was released inside the facility early Monday morning forcing employees to evacuate.

The incidence occurred at a warehouse located at 11922 General Drive in the Steele Creek area.

We're told the chemical leak happened in a suite which houses a distribution center for ProFlowers.

ACCOMAC - Workers at the Perdue plant in Accomac were evacuated for three hours because of an ammonia leak.
Fire officials say Perdue's Haz Mat Team was trying to control the leak when crews from several areas arrived just before 8:00 p.m. Wednesday.
More than a dozen workers were evaluated and none needed to be taken to hospitals, fire officials stated.
Members of the Eastern Shore Regional HazMat Team, and other emergency personnel donned special suits before going in to isolate and control the leak.

ORMOND BEACH -- A Holly Hill firefighter assisting Ormond Beach firefighters at a fire at a self-storage business Sunday got sick after some kind of chemical splashed on him, a fire official said.

The firefighter was transported to Halifax Health Medical Center by EVAC ambulance, said Battalion Chief David King of Ormond Beach.
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Firefighters were called to Simply Self Storage at 610 S. Yonge St. at 5:42 p.m. Sunday to reports of white smoke coming out of three or four storage units. Holly Hill firefighters also responded to assist, King said.

Firefighters opened the unit and located a 35-gallon drum smoking. When water was put on it, the chemical, which King said was some kind of ammonia product used to bleach hair, splashed on Kimmy's arm. Twenty minutes later, he started having respiratory difficulty and started vomiting, King said.

Ammonia leak: Ammonia gas leaked out of an organic chemistry laboratory at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, opposite Jadavpur University, while five researchers were working inside on Tuesday afternoon. Fire department officers rushed to the spot and entered the groundfloor laboratory and sealed the cylinder from which it had leaked. No one was affected and the laboratory was closed down for the day.

DORAVILLE — Firefighters from Gwinnett and DeKalb counties helped contain an ammonia leak at a Doraville refrigeration facility Monday night.

Gwinnett County firefighters and the department’s Hazmat team responded to Nordic Cold Storage on the 4300 block of Pleasantdale Road at about 8:15 p.m., finding the business already evacuated, spokesman Capt. Tommy Rutledge said.

Calling in DeKalb County’s Hazmat crew as backup at the scene near the Gwinnett-DeKalb line, firefighters donned special suits and carried monitors as they entered the building to find the leak coming from a “pump packing valve,” Rutledge said.

Hazardous materials crews descended on Arnold on Saturday afternoon when ammonia began leaking onto the roof of North Side Foods along Rivers Edge Drive.

John Tedorski, Arnold's director of emergency management, said two cooling towers used to maintain the pressure inside an ammonia storage tank lost power.

The rising temperature caused the pressure to climb from a stable 85 pounds per square inch to nearly 125 ppi.

The excessive pressure caused a valve to blow about 1:30 p.m. and a small amount of ammonia leaked outside onto the sausage packing company's roof, Tedorski said.

The building was evacuated but no one was injured, Tedorski said.

GREENPORT – Columbia and Greene County HazMat team members were called to the scene of a noxious gas leak at Yonder Farms' cold storage facility on Route 66 in Greenport on Saturday.

Some 20 pounds of ammonia had leaked from a valve there in an incident Greenport Fire Chief Gary Mazzacano later said was caused by the extreme heat. Temperatures in the region had hit the mid to upper 90s.

An anhydrous ammonia leak at the J.R. Simplot plant in Grand Forks prompted the evacuation of a compressor room and surrounding businesses shortly before noon today, the fire department said.

About 45 people were working in the compressor room when a valve started leaking, Grand Forks Fire Department Battalion Chief Mike Sandry said.

Because of high winds, authorities evacuated nearby businesses Hebron Brick and Strata Corporation in addition to evacuating the compressor room.

“Anytime you’re dealing with anhydrous (ammonia), you certainly have the opportunity it could be serious," Sandry said.

Ammonia exposure can cause burning of the eyes, nose and throat or, at high levels, death, according to the North Dakota Department of Health.

A stretch of Highway 83 was closed down Monday near Stapleton for an ammonia spill south of the small sand hills community. Stapleton was also evacuated because of possible health concerns.

"It was at the Logan County Coop, just north of the Highway 83 and 92 junction," Captain Jeff Hankla said. "They have four large ammonia tanks. There is one main pipe that feeds all four of them and the pop off valve ruptured, for an unknown reason. The personnel that worked there shut off all the valves, but they had one valve fail. So all that ammonia was being released into the air."

Emergency personnel from North Platte were called at approximately 9:30 a.m., to assist with cleaning up the spill and to assist in fixing the valve. Hankla said the convenience store and coop were evacuated, and because of prevailing winds, homes were evacuated to the northeast of the station, including Stapleton. It also shut down portions of Highway 83 and Highway 92 for about four hours.

A man suffered minor injuries Thursday evening after an ammonia leak scare at an old Saskatoon dairy plant in the Caswell Hill neighbourhood.

Hazmat teams were called to the scene at the corner of 23rd Street West and Avenue F North around 8:50 p.m. to investigate a report of an ammonia leak.

Workers there were dismantling old storage tanks for removal when one worker cut a steel line that once supplied ammonia to a tank.

He was taken to hospital by a co-worker suffering from minor inhalation and eye irritation from ammonia residue.

Americold Logistics employees were evacuated from the Albertville business Thursday morning following an ammonia leak.
The refrigeration and blast freezing industry, located at Railroad Avenue and George Wallace Drive, summoned Albertville Fire and Rescue personnel at 10:23 a.m. when an ammonia leak was detected in the engine room.
Albertville Fire Chief Robert Terrell said the entire facility was evacuated until the leak was verified and firemen dressed in protective hazardous material suits were able to isolate the leak.
A few workers were checked out in the city's ambulance but no one was injured and no one required transport to local hospitals.

LATEST: Three Fonterra workers injured in an ammonia spill at the Whareroa site have been treated by ambulance paramedics and are not believed to be seriously affected by the spill.

Roads to the site have now been reopened following the leak about 1.30pm.

Fire Service area chief Pat Fitzell said the leaked ammonia was being dispersed by the wind.

The Fire Service's specialist chemical hazard vehicle from New Plymouth was on its way to Hawera, Fitzell said.

Fire raged in the small town of Blakesburg Friday Morning.

It all started about 8:30 a.m. after a truck driver was loading or unloading fuel.  All of the sudden his vehicle burst into flames.

Fire fighters across four counties responded to the blaze.  Smoke could be seen miles down the road as the tanker carrying diesel fuel and gasoline sent fireballs into the sky.

 “We started putting water on it and then the fire got pretty good sized and we knew we were probably going to lose the tank itself,” said Ottumwa fire chief Tony Miller.

As if the fire wasn’t bad enough, other tanks just feet away held flammable fuel that could explode. 

“We had some gasoline and diesel tanks just to the right of the tanker that had exploded.  We had anhydrous ammonia nurse tanks to the left of it and we had the fire right in the middle of it.”

The Jackson Fire Department secured the scene after a minor ammonia spill in the parking lot of Industrial Steel Treating Co. on Carroll Avenue near Ganson Street.
Officials are waiting for a company to come and clean up the ammonia, said Jackson Police Chief Matt Heins, who also oversees the fire department.
A truck was unloading ammonia when a leak developed, when a small amount spilled, Heins said. The driver of the truck told fire officials he put a wrench on a coupling and noticed the leak. Heins did not know how much spilled.
"The risks and hazards are not that great," Heins said.

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Ammonia leaked out of a fruit packing plant in the Cutler-Orosi area Saturday morning. The Tulare County Sheriff's Department says the ammonia had been leaking since midnight at the Wileman Brothers and Elliott Plant on Ave. 400 and Road 128 in Cutler.

A Hazmat team, fire crews, and Sheriff's Deputies were at the scene Saturday morning. Road blocks were set up near the plant to keep people away from the dangerous gas. Deputies say the plant was empty when the leak was reported.

Ammonia can irritate the eyes, nose, and throat.So authorities are advising people in the area to stay inside, close their doors and windows, and turn-off their air conditioning.

The cause of the leak is still under investigation.

ATLANTA -- A building at a Pepsi-Cola plant in northwest Atlanta has been declared safe, hours after an ammonia leak shut down the facility.

Atlanta Fire Department officials said a safety alarm first alerted workers of the problem Monday night at the plant on Chattahoochee Avenue near Marietta Boulevard.

The entire plant was evacuated while hazmat crews checked out the facility. At least four workers were treated for exposure to ammonia, which firefighters said is used in the plant's air conditioning system. Two of the workers were taken to a nearby hospital for evaluation.

DORAVILLE — Twenty employees were evacuated from a Doraville business and a neighborhood was locked down due to an anhydrous ammonia leak Sunday night, officials said.

The hazmat incident was reported at 8:15 p.m. by an employee of Nordic Cold Storage in the 4300 block of Pleasantdale Road. 

Gwinnett fire crews found an extensive vapor cloud showing from the roof of the large one-story commercial building on arrival and assisted with the evacuation.

Hazmat technicians from Gwinnett and DeKalb agencies entered the building and quickly located and isolated a leaking valve, said Gwinnett County Fire Department spokesman Lt. Eric Eberly.

A Hazmat crew contains an ammonia leak from a rail car south of New London.

Crews were called to the scene near Readfield in Waupaca County just before nine o'clock Thursday morning.

The leak was located on a rail line near the Larsen Co-op. Officials say a valve on a rail car was leaking.

Three homes were evacuated as a precaution. Traffic in that area was closed but has since reopened.

Hazmat had the situation under control in an hour.

People living near the Alpenrose Dairy in Southwest Portland were asked to stay indoors Wednesday, following the release of ammonia gas.

Reverse 911 calls were sent out to local residents to tell them to shut their windows and doors and turn off air conditioners. The idea was to stop outside air from being drawn in. 

Paul Corah of the Portland Fire Bureau, said while there was a smell of ammonia when authorities first arrived, by the time hazardous materials teams sampled the air inside, it was only at 21 parts per million of ammonia.

"Hazmat teams just got inside and did a sample of the air inside the plant. And it's reading about 21 parts per million of Ammonia. You can actually start smelling ammonia at about 17 parts per million. And any type of health risks start up at about 300 parts per million. So it's pretty low right now. It's a good sign," Corah said.

Farm chemical leak under control

FRANKTON, Ind. (WISH) - Emergency officials brought a farm chemical leak near Frankton under control within about a half hour without major trouble Monday evening.

The Frankton Fire Department requested backup from Madison County EMA and three township departments after responding to a large anhydrous ammonia link at about 8 p.m. Monday near Ind. 128 and Madison County Road 200 West .

Sixteen people were taken to hospital today after a chemical spill at a business park, a fire service said.

Others were treated for the effects of chemical inhalation by paramedics at the scene of the spillage at Crossways Business Park in Bridge Close, Dartford, Kent.

None of those affected was believed to be in a life-threatening condition.

A spokeswoman for Kent Fire and Rescue Service said a small quantity of ammonia had been contained.

Chatham-Kent police, fire and the Ministry of Environment were called Saturday evening shortly after 8 p.m. after an anhydrous ammonia leak at a farm on Brush Line near Mull Road.

Insp. George Flikweert, of the Chatham-Kent Police Service, said a farmer was applying the chemical to a field on a sloped ridge. He said the uneven ground caused a stabilizer bar securing the pressurized ammonia tank to break, shifting the tank and causing the supply line to rupture.

Approximately one metric tonne of the chemical was spewed into the atmosphere, he said.

"It's a chemical used in the crop fertilization process," Flikweert said.

He said while the ammonia dissipates rapidly, it's extremely dangerous.

Thunder Creek Pork Plant was evacuated on Thursday due to an ammonia leak at the factory.
    Moose Jaw Fire Department was called to Lillooet Street West at 12:23 p.m.
    After readings were taken at the site, deputy chief Rod Montgomery said a decision to evacuate the plant was taken at 1:48 p.m.
    Staff were allowed back into the building at 2:30 p.m.
    “We took some readings and realized we had an anhydrous ammonia leak.
    “The leak itself had stopped but there was still product in the lines.
    “Our concern was for the safety of the people on the floor and that nobody was in a situation where they were in a hazerdous environment,” he said.

Fire and Hazmat crews get the call for the smell of ammonia at a business in Sharonville.

Crews responded to Cincinnati Freezer on Sharon Road just before 9 a.m. A worker opening the business for the day reported the ammonia smell.

Crews located the leak in a small area of the large building. They closed that area off and ventilated the rest of the building.

No one needed to be evacuated from the business or surrounding area. And no one was hurt.

An ammonia leak at a west Shreveport dairy Wednesday morning caused a small fire and led to the brief evacuation of the plant.

 No one was injured in the incidents at Foremost dairy, located off Monkhouse Drive near Shreveport Regional Airport.

 The Fire Department was called to the dairy about 9:20 a.m. after anhydrous ammonia began leaking. Firefighters said they found a one-inch pipe that was leaking from a valve that had ruptured in a maintenance room.  That rupture caused a small fire that was extinguished before the Fire Department arrived, Assistant Fire Chief Scott Wolverton said. 

The plant evacuated all 136 employees as a precaution, Wolverton said.

New Haven, Conn. (WTNH) - A section of Brewery Street in New Haven was closed for several hours overnight after a hazardous materials scare.

Hazmat and fire crews were called out Wednesday night to investigate a spill at  Maritime International , a food distributor.

It happened around 8:30 p.m. There was an ammonia leak in a cold storage unit. Ammonia can cause irritation and even be flammable.