In Brief: Chemical Leak at Factory
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A CHEMICAL leak caused an extra job for fire fighters in Leamington.  Officers went to Heinz Frozen Foods in St Mary's Road at 12.35am yesterday after receiving reports that an unknown quantity of ammonia was leaking from a refrigeration unit.
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By Christine Dempsey, The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Sep. 12--STORRS -- A chemical spill Monday morning caused a fire and forced about 200 people to evacuate the new Pharmacy/Biology building at the University of Connecticut.
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Twenty years later, Union Carbide is still shortchanging the victims of the world&#39;s worst industrial disaster. On Dec. 3, 1984, a toxic gas leak from Union Carbide&#39;s pesticide factory in Bhopal, India, killed at least 7,000 people.
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Water containing some radioactive materials leaked from a nuclear power plant in Japan after a strong earthquake Monday, a spokesman for the firm running the facility said.
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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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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 Scott Streater, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Mar. 11--The first sign of impending disaster would be a piercing hiss as thousands of pounds of chlorine gas rushed through a hole in one of the 4,000-gallon storage tanks at the Tarrant County Water Supply Project plant in Euless.
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The company said it may have been the source of the E. coli poisoning that has sickened 65 people.
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TACOMA, Wash. - A chlorine leak Monday night at a chemical plant on this city's waterfront injured 12 people and prompted the evacuation of the surrounding industrial area, a fire official said.
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By WARREN, Amanda  Firefighters and environmental advisers dealt with a chemical spill at a Hornby seed factory yesterday.   PGG Wrightson grain and seed general manager John McKenzie said the agricultural chemical was used in the company's seed-treatment process.
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By ANITA CHANG  BEIJING - China's environmental watchdog ordered factories polluting a scenic lake to stop production Tuesday, following an algae bloom that contaminated the drinking water supply for 2 million people.
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By Ken Ward Jr.  kward@wvgazette.com  DuPont Co. officials said Wednesday that new estimates put the size of a weekend leak from their Belle plant at more than 600 pounds.
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The O2 entertainment venue in London is due to reopen after a chemical leak left staff needing hospital treatment.
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By Joe Walker, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Feb. 14-- -- The 1,150 workers at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant may be getting at least one more year on the job now that USEC Inc. has stretched its schedule to have a replacement factory operating in Piketon, Ohio.
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By Frank Munger, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn.  Feb. 28--OAK RIDGE -- The K-25 plant is badly deteriorated and thoroughly  contaminated with uranium and a host of other hazardous materials.
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Crews put a temporary patch Sunday on a railroad car that had been leaking toxic chlorine gas since a train wreck last week, while investigators looked into why a switching mechanism had been set to lead the train into railcars parked on a side track.
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Japanese nuclear inspectors have identified a new radioactive leak at a power plant that was badly damaged in this week's earthquake, compounding concerns about the safety of the country's nuclear reactors.