The Hazardous Incident Of Methyl Isocyanate (MIC)

The Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA) is a federal statute that was enacted in 1976. Under the TSCA, chemicals must meet regulations set by the administering body, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The Toxic Substance Control Act also requires testing of new chemicals to determine how they affect both the environment and humans. If the chemicals do not meet the regulations, the EPA is allowed to limit or prohibit their manufacturing and sales (Cheeseman, Page 523). While the Toxic Substance Control Act has been around since 1976, it has been amended or expanded 29 times in the last three years alone (EPA.gov). Violating this federal statute can result in hefty fines, and in serious cases, jail time. Like many federal statutes, the Toxic Substance Control Act has some opposition, especially as more changes continue to be made, but overall it has been well-received as a vital protection law that is generally well-enforced.

The purpose of this experiment was to practice the functional group transformation procedure. The process of the experiment included the dehydration of 2-methylcyclohexanol in the presence of phosphoric acid and heat. The products that were formed from the reaction were 1-methylcyclohexene and 3-methylcyclohexene. The mass of the final product solution was 0.502g with a percent yield of 18.7% and a boiling point range of 84.5-98.5oC.

Environment/industry specific concern: Minimal risk, this chemical is only used when the facility is not in operation. For example, the fogging equipment is set to run at the end of the day for a short period and allowed to dissipate overnight before production commences the next day. Elevated risk is introduced

The Zadroga Act allocated $4.2 billion to create the World Trade Center Health Program to provide testing and treatment for people who worked in response and recovery operations as well as for survivors. Disasters expose the general population and responders to a range of potential contaminants and stressors, which may harm physical and mental health. The unprecedented toxic release in lower Manhattan on September 11, 2001, created one of the worst environmental disasters, suffering from severe illness, such as cancer, respiratory disease, and other life-threatening illnesses without proper coverage to received the necessary treatment.

On July 1, 2015 at 11:51pm, Blount county dispatch received a call reporting that a CSX tank car was reported to be on fire. CSX response personnel reported to the scene and found that one of their trains had derailed and in the process toppled a loaded tank car of Acrylonitrile Stabilized.  Damages incurred to the tank car during the derailment resulted in product release and a subsequent fire.  The shipper, INEOS USA LLC, was notified utilizing CHEMTREC Report 2015-0702-00010 (“Acrylonitrile, stable”, 2017).

Aiii) – Health and Safety Act & Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002

Methamphetamine is a recreational drug that affects the central nervous system. It was discovered in 1893. Methamphetamine is usually in the form of a white odorless powder. The powder can be compressed into pill form, another form is crystal meth. Crystal meth comes in chunky clear pieces and is commonly smoked. Meth produces a large amount of dopamine in the brain. Dopamine allows for a happy feeling or euphoria. In most cases following the intense euphoria is the crash, which can cause a person to become lethargic and depressed. Prolonged use of meth can cause rotting teeth, scars and severe weight loss. Low doses of methamphetamine can reduce appetite, increase alertness. Larger doses can cause seizures, violent behavior and delusions. Methamphetamine has been reported to lift mood and increase sexual desire. Methamphetamine is a highly addictive synthetic drug. Some common nicknames are Meth; Speed; Crank; Glass; Crystal; Tweek. When methamphetamine is used with another drug there are different names as well, such as Mexican Speed Balls, Biker Coffee. Methamphetamine can be used by smoking, snorting, orally and injected. Injecting and smoking the drug will result in a rapid feeling of intense euphoria. In World War II, methamphetamine was distributed to the German soldiers. It would enhance the soldier’s abilities and reduce appetite. In modern

On August 28, 2008, at about 10:35 p.m., a runaway chemical reaction occurred inside a 4,500 gallon pressure vessel known as a residue treater, causing the vessel to explode violently in the methomyl unit at the Bayer CropScience facility in Institute, West Virginia. Highly flammable solvent sprayed from the vessel and immediately ignited, causing an intense fire that burned for more than 4 hours. The fire was contained inside the Methomyl-Larvin insecticide unit by the Bayer CropScience fire brigade with mutual aid assistance from local volunteer and municipal fire departments.

Many participants mentioned that they saw the lack of news about potential health and safety hazards linked with their recovery and cleanup duties. A landfill worker commented on inconsistent information: "there were a lot of passenger cars that were brought out of the World Trade Center and brought over to the landfill." The worker also went saying that everybody thought there wasn't anything wrong with this action. The workers were just rinsing them off and gave the cars back to the owners. It remained not noticed as a potential hazard at the time. However, local workers soon realized that there could be potential contaminants on the vehicles, which were free to roam after owner claimed his/her vehicle (Ekenga pg. six yr. 2011). This dilemma brought great attention towards the toxicity not only towards the victims, but the recovery workers as well. Thus, The World Trade Center Health Registry was installed to follow the long-term health consequences of persons exposed to the attack. The registry incorporated a group of 71,437 individuals enrolled and completed a health survey between the dates of September 2003 and November 2004. This included 30,665 cleanup workers and volunteers, of whom 4,490 reported working at the landfill. (Ekenga pg. two yr.

The film that I am reviewing, title “The Poisoner’s Handbook,” is based on Deborah Blums best-selling book, of the same title, which reflects on the most notorious cases between the years of 1918 and 1959 that were handled by Charles Norris, the chief medical examiner for New York City, also known and described by his peers as “the father of forensic toxicology in America,” and Alexander Oscar Gettler, toxicologist with the Office of Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York, such as the fatal radium poisoning of the factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting watch dials with self-luminous paint at the Orange, New Jersey watch factory around the year 1917 and other cases that involve dangerous poisons, like arsenic, methanol, lead, carbon monoxide, denatured alcohol, radium and thallium. Their renowned work led to tougher regulations by the government and the creation of the Food and Drug Administration. The film depicts how the average American’s medicine cabinet, in the early 1900s, was a treasure chest of dangerous poisons that could make you ill, put you in a coma, and even kill you. These poisons were readily found in health tonics, depilatory creams, teething medicine, and cleaning supplies.

Chemical suicide is a growing problem all around the world. This form of suicide was created in Japan, but now it is growing rapidly across the United States in recent years. People committing this type of suicide are looking to kill themselves, and also may want to harm or kill first responders in the process as well. This puts a large amount of people in danger in the immediate area where the chemicals are located. These situations might not be clear to first responders upon arrival and could cause injury or death if they are not wearing proper personal protective equipment.

The town of Woburn, MA was stricken with an epidemic of different types of leukemia, including acute lymphoblastic leukemia, which affected 8 families. The mere notion that such rare cases occurred within a half mile radius of each other was a call for attention. It is the plaintiff 's claim that these cases were the result of a toxic contamination of the town’s water supply by the defendant 's unintentional, improper disposal of the following chemical waste products: Trichloroethylene (TCE) and Perchlorethylene (PCE). The plaintiff accuses the defendant of the following charges: negligence of chemical procedures including, but not limited to, illegal dumping of TCE, as well as PCE, and wrongful death, resulting from a depraved indifference to human life. Given the pain and suffering the victims and their families have undergone due to the defendant’s gross negligence, the plaintiff asks for compensation for and acknowledgement of wrongdoing on the defendant 's part. The plaintiff also calls for an injunction; in order for the defendant to resume further factory work, the company must propose, and be approved of, new procedures that strictly follow the enforced regulations that ensure the safe disposal of all chemical waste.

The thousands of volunteers and federal workers who are cleaning up oil that has already weathered and lost many of its most toxic volatile compounds may still be exposed to toxins — particularly if they remove protective gear or do not have sufficient training in handling toxic substances

Brilliant Blue FCF: A colorant for foods and other substances to induce a color change. It has the capacity for inducing an allergic reaction in individuals with pre-existing moderate asthma.

Hazardous waste and its proper disposal have become a major sociological problem today due to its capability of contaminating the area in which we live and its potential to be lethal to all living things. In order for the United States and the rest of the world to save itself from a potentially life threatening problem they must fix the causes which lead to the improper disposal of hazardous wastes and like materials. Some reasons that hazardous waste has become a problem in the United States today is due to the breakdown in enforcing laws for the proper disposal of such wastes, a lack of initiative on big companies behalf to spend money on proper disposal, and the ease of disposing of such wastes illegally.