In Brief: Workers hospitalized after gas leak at chip factory
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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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About 300 people have reported becoming sick after eating at an Olive Garden restaurant in northeast Indianapolis, Indiana, a spokesman for the Marion County Health Department told CNN on Friday.
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By Amie Shak Daily Herald Staff Writer  Three people were injured - one seriously - after a chemical spill at a Batavia business Friday night.  Batavia Fire Department officials were called to PPG Industries, 1020 Olympic Drive, at 6:51 p.m.
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More than 100 people were hospitalized Tuesday complaining of breathing problems after a fuel tanker exploded north of Baghdad, police and medical officials said.
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By Andrew Tran, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Jun. 27--FORT LAUDERDALE -- Two men were treated after inhaling pool chemicals that leaked when a truck crashed on Ocean Boulevard on Wednesday, authorities said.
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A worker at Richmond's ASB Aquatic Centre was taken to hospital on Saturday with chemical burns after spilling cleaning fluid on herself.
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NASA declared an emergency this morning aboard the three-man crew of the International Space Station after a chemical leak of potassium hydroxide caused a strong odor and produced what the crew initially thought was smoke.
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By Staff Reports  A woman who was overcome by a leaking dry-cleaning chemical and fell unconscious into a chemical puddle Thursday was decontaminated at the site and taken to a hospital.
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More than 120 people who ate from the same booth at the Taste of Chicago food festival last week became ill, at least nine of them with salmonella poisoning and 10 who were hospitalized, the health department said Thursday.
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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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By The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz.  Mar. 6--Seven people were taken to Valley hospitals Monday night with respiratory problems from a chemical spill at a Costco store in Scottsdale.
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An 18-year-old worker at a circuit board factory in Redwood City, Calif., apparently passed out over a vat of acid, fell in and died.
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Officials are trying to figure out why workers at a meat plant were stricken with a strange neurological illness.
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A chemical leak at the 02 Dome in London leaves 29 people in need of hospital treatment.
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Federal health officials are investigating if there's a link between illnesses reported by several workers at a pig slaughterhouse in Indiana and those seen recently in workers at a Minnesota pork plant.
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By SETH BORENSTEIN HOUSTON - International space station astronauts pulled an alarm and donned protective gear Monday after smelling a foul odor that turned out to be a harmful chemical leaking from an oxygen vent, NASA said.&quot;We don't exactly know the nature of the spill ...
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SIX binmen were taken to hospital today after a split rubbish bag caused a chemical alert in Ilford. The men were handling rubbish in Elgin Road at 7.50am when the bag split, spilling liquid onto the ground and releasing toxic fumes which they inhaled.