Methanex Sets Safety Record; Achievement More Notable in Its Risky Environment
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THE word accident has been the main casualty at Waitara's Methanex plant for the last seven years.  "We have outlawed the word," says director of corporate resources Jayne Francis. "It has connotations of an act of God, of something that cannot be avoided.
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Helium can be mighty dangerous on its own, but when combined with oxygen it seems to help lung patients breathe more easily. In Bodyhack.
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When an explosion flattened a liquefied natural gas plant in Algeria, killing 30 workers, one might say the heat was felt half a world away &#151; in coastal towns in New England, Alabama and California. The Algerian inferno a year ago undermined industry arguments that the modern era of LNG transport is inherently safe. It also became rallying point for groups fighting proposed new LNG terminals in their towns.
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BP Plc  said on Tuesday it was working toward settling outstanding safety and health violations at two of its Midwestern refineries.
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Contaminated groundwater tainted with trichloroethylene has led to a  dangerous plume that is now affecting the air quality in homes near the  Behr-Dayton Thermal Products Plant in Dayton, Ohio. The U.S.
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Twenty-one Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) employees were taken to the hospital on Wednesday because of a gas leak at a chip fabrication plant in Hsinchu, Taiwan, a company spokesman said. The leaked gas was arsine, a highly toxic and flammable gas that is used exclusively in semiconductor manufacturing. The gas leak occurred inside TSMC's Fab 7, a fab that produces chips using 200-millimeter silicon wafers. The gas leak did not require TSMC to halt operations at Fab 7 and the facility is operating normally, according to the company spokesman. The 21 TSMC employees are expected to be released from the hospital by the end of the day.
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These products don't come without serious risks.
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Safety in Polish coal mines has improved markedly since communist times but accidents still occur regularly, writes the BBC's Adam Easton.
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Merck said on Wednesday that short-term studies had shown its planned successor, Arcoxia, to be safer.
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altitude without the heart-stopping barrel rolls that vexed the craft&#39;s qualifying flight on Wednesday. world altitude record for a fixed-wing aircraft, set in 1963 by the experimental X-15 rocket plane.
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BEIJING -- China's shoddy record in product safety took another hit yesterday after Japanese importers recalled toothpaste containing a chemical used in antifreeze.
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The broker breaks records with its third-quarter results.
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TACOMA, Wash. - A chlorine leak at a waterfront chemical plant injured 12 people who inhaled fumes, and prompted authorities to evacuate the area overnight.  Workers were filling a 1,000-gallon tank with the chemical at Pioneer Americas Inc.
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By John Shultz, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Feb. 21--A worker was hurt in a small hydrochloric acid spill at a Kansas City manufacturing business Wednesday morning.   According to the fire department, the spill happened about 11 a.m.
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ExxonMobil (XOM:NYSE - news - research) stepped up to the plate Thursday with record-breaking profits that raced past Wall Street estimates.
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When the lethal methyl isocyanante (MIC) gas leaked from the factory of Union Carbide India Limited (now Eveready Industries India Limited) on the intervening night of December 2/3, 1984, it triggered off not just one mass disaster, but several of them.
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Despite its continuing difficulties forcing power plants to reduce their toxic emissions, the Environmental Protection Agency has enjoyed unusual success in bringing