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February 22 – A pipeline carrying carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide, owned by Denbury Resources, exploded in Satartia, Mississippi, causing cars to stop and people to go unconscious; 45 were hospitalized. [2] [3] May 4 – A gas transmission pipeline exploded and burned in Fleming County, Kentucky. There were no injuries. [4]
The National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) are air pollution standards issued by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The standards, authorized by the Clean Air Act, are for pollutants not covered by the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) that may cause an increase in fatalities or in serious, irreversible, or incapacitating illness.
February 11, 2014 – Greene County explosion, one injured, one dead. Later, the well owner, Chevron, apologized to area residents by giving out free pizza. Chevron also blocked PA DEP personnel from the site for two days after the fire. [141] [142] [143] September 6, 2014 – Mercer County – Fire, 15 to 20 homes evacuated [144]
A dump of toxic waste containing hydrogen sulfide is believed to have caused 17 deaths and thousands of illnesses in Abidjan, on the West African coast, in the 2006 Côte d'Ivoire toxic waste dump. In September 2008, three workers were killed and two suffered serious injury, including long term brain damage, at a mushroom growing company in ...
Per a statement, released on Thursday, August 29, the coroner confirmed that Knight’s death was by hydrogen sulfide toxicity and that the manner of death was suicide. The 25-year-old had been ...
Lucy-Bleu Knight — the daughter of Slash's girlfriend Meegan Hodges — died last month from hydrogen sulfide toxicity. The manner of death was ruled suicide.
Toxic: a chemical that has a median lethal concentration (LC 50) in air of more than 200 parts per million (ppm) but not more than 2,000 parts per million by volume of gas or vapor, or more than 2 milligrams per liter but not more than 20 milligrams per liter of mist, fume or dust, when administered by continuous inhalation for 1 hour (or less if death occurs within 1 hour) to albino rats ...
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board is authorized by the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 and became operational in January 1998. The Senate legislative history states: "The principal role of the new chemical safety board is to investigate accidents to determine the conditions and circumstances which led up to the event and to identify the cause or causes so that similar events might be prevented."