Archive for the ‘Hazardous Materials (HAZMAT)’ Category
December 6, 1917, a Belgian steamer and French freighter, both loaded with ammunition, collided and explode in Canada’s Halifax Harbor, leveling part of the town and killing nearly 1,600 people and injuring approximately 8,000.
Tuesday, December 6th, 2016The worst industrial accident in history, 12/3/1984: An explosion at a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India leads to at least 2,000 deaths and another 200,000 injured as toxic gas enveloped the city.
Saturday, December 3rd, 2016Mozambique: At least 73 died and 110 were injured when a fuel tanker exploded in Tet province
Friday, November 18th, 2016Illinois: An explosion caused by a gas leak in Canton killed one person, and injured another 11 people
Thursday, November 17th, 2016
On October 23, 2002, about 50 Chechen rebels storm a Moscow theater, taking up to 700 people hostage.
Monday, October 24th, 2016“….After a 57-hour-standoff at the Palace of Culture, during which two hostages were killed, Russian special forces surrounded and raided the theater on the morning of October 26. Later it was revealed that they had pumped a powerful narcotic gas into the building, knocking nearly all of the terrorists and hostages unconscious before breaking into the walls and roof and entering through underground sewage tunnels. Most of the guerrillas and 120 hostages were killed during the raid….”
Police investigating a “chemical incident” at London City Airport have found suspected CS gas spray.
Sunday, October 23rd, 2016
Kansas: Dozens of people were treated for respiratory problems after a sulfuric acid and sodium hypochlorite spill at a spirits manufacturing facility.
Friday, October 21st, 2016October 20, 1944: Two liquid gas tanks explode in Cleveland, Ohio, killing 130 people and injuring 215 more.
Thursday, October 20th, 2016
More than 70 people have been injured, four seriously, in an explosion caused by a suspected gas leak near the southern Spanish city of Malaga.
Sunday, October 2nd, 2016The first potential antidote to treat the effects of chlorine inhalation, a potential terrorism threat, will advance in development under a contract between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) and Radikal Therapeutics, Inc. of Beverly, Massachusetts.
Saturday, October 1st, 2016“…..chlorine gas has been used as a weapon, for the first time in the First World War and repeatedly in the recent Syrian civil war…..”