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2 Workers Die Due To Asphyxiation Following Chemical Spill In Gujarat Factory
Two workers from Bihar died of asphyxiation following a chemical spill at a factory in Gujarat's Valsad district on Tuesday, police said.
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Truck That Spilled Chemical On Road Killing 3 Found In Rajasthan: Delhi Police
Days after three men were killed allegedly after they came in contact with a chemical spilled on the road when their motorcycle slipped near Kashmere Gate in Delhi, the police said on Thursday that the chemical, suspected to be phenol, was being carried in a truck to Haryana.
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Another Dead After Contact With Unknown Chemical Spilled On Road In Delhi
A 22-year-old man on Monday died of his injuries sustained two days ago after he and two friends came in contact with an unknown chemical spilled on the road when their motorcycle slipped near Delhi's Kashmere Gate, police said.
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Surfers Unaware Of Cyanide Leak From Steel Plant For Days In US Lake
Paul Grenchick was surfing with friends along the Indiana shore of Lake Michigan on Thursday evening. Little did he know, just up the river, thousands of fish were dying, and investigators were struggling to determine exactly how much cyanide and ammonia had flowed into the lake after a spill at an industrial plant earlier in the week.
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Couple Injured As Chemical Spills On Them From Tanker In Thane
A couple received severe burn wounds when hazardous chemical spilled over them from a tanker in Thane, police said on Tuesday.
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You Should Never Wear Shoes In The House: Health Expert Luke Coutinho Tells Us Why
You might not like the idea in the beginning but your shoes carry a lot of germs that hop on your feet when you walk in the grocery stores where spilled food rots on the floor, in washrooms, on footpaths where dogs defecate, or in the work places where toxic chemicals are splashed and spilled.
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Residents 'Trapped' As Bengaluru Lakes Froth Like Never Before: 10 Points
After the city's heaviest August rain in a century, two giant lakes in Bengaluru are spewing so much toxic foam that residents who live near them have reportedly complained that they are having to stay indoors. On Wednesday, the froth, a stinking cocktail of chemicals and untreated sewage dumped in the lakes, rose to over 10 feet in the Varthur Lak...
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Bengaluru's Varthur Lake Now Spews 10-Feet-High Froth
Overnight rains, Bengaluru's heaviest in August in a century, has the city's Varthur Lake spewing foam and froth like never before. On Wednesday, the foam caused by toxic chemicals and untreated sewage in the lake rose to over 10 feet along the tall fence erected to keep the stinking cocktail of pollutants from spilling on to road in Varthur Kodi l...
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AIIMS Panel Suggests Shifting Of Tughlaqabad Depot After Gas Leak
The Tughlaqabad container depot should be relocated, a panel of experts from AIIMS set up to probe the chemical spill that led to more than 450 children being hospitalised suggested today. The five-member probe panel, which had visited the depot in south Delhi's Tughlaqabad area and the two schools affected by last week's gas leak, has, however, no...
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Anger Piles Up On Vietnamese Poisoned Coast A Year After Spill
Taiwan's Formosa Plastics Corp met with an accident. Within weeks of the incident more than 200 Kilometres of coast had been sullied by the accidental release of chemicals including cyanide and iron hydroxide.
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Train Derails In Washington DC, Leaks Hazardous Chemical
Officials warned Washington DC area residents to brace for a potentially slow commute Monday after a CSX freight train derailed near a Metro stop, sending 14 cars off the tracks and spilling hazardous material.
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Mexico Acid Leak Leaves Orange River, Toxic Water
Ramona Yesenia stood in her town square with two empty jugs, waiting for water to replace the municipal supply contaminated by a chemical spill that turned Mexico's Sonora river orange.
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US says examining use of toxic chemical in Syria
The United States has indications a toxic chemical, probably chlorine, was used in Syria this month and is examining whether the Syrian government was responsible, the U.S. State Department said on Monday.
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300,000 told not to use water in US chemical spill
The White House has issued a federal disaster declaration in West Virginia, where a chemical spill that may have contaminated tap water has led officials to tell at least 300,000 people not to bathe, brush their teeth or wash their clothes.
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Oil spill off Mumbai coast; ONGC fixes leak in pipeline
An oil spill has been reported off the Mumbai coast after a rupture in Oil and Natural Gas Corporation's (ONGC) main trunk pipeline yesterday.
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2 Workers Die Due To Asphyxiation Following Chemical Spill In Gujarat Factory
Two workers from Bihar died of asphyxiation following a chemical spill at a factory in Gujarat's Valsad district on Tuesday, police said.
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Truck That Spilled Chemical On Road Killing 3 Found In Rajasthan: Delhi Police
Days after three men were killed allegedly after they came in contact with a chemical spilled on the road when their motorcycle slipped near Kashmere Gate in Delhi, the police said on Thursday that the chemical, suspected to be phenol, was being carried in a truck to Haryana.
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Another Dead After Contact With Unknown Chemical Spilled On Road In Delhi
A 22-year-old man on Monday died of his injuries sustained two days ago after he and two friends came in contact with an unknown chemical spilled on the road when their motorcycle slipped near Delhi's Kashmere Gate, police said.
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Surfers Unaware Of Cyanide Leak From Steel Plant For Days In US Lake
Paul Grenchick was surfing with friends along the Indiana shore of Lake Michigan on Thursday evening. Little did he know, just up the river, thousands of fish were dying, and investigators were struggling to determine exactly how much cyanide and ammonia had flowed into the lake after a spill at an industrial plant earlier in the week.
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Couple Injured As Chemical Spills On Them From Tanker In Thane
A couple received severe burn wounds when hazardous chemical spilled over them from a tanker in Thane, police said on Tuesday.
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You Should Never Wear Shoes In The House: Health Expert Luke Coutinho Tells Us Why
You might not like the idea in the beginning but your shoes carry a lot of germs that hop on your feet when you walk in the grocery stores where spilled food rots on the floor, in washrooms, on footpaths where dogs defecate, or in the work places where toxic chemicals are splashed and spilled.
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Residents 'Trapped' As Bengaluru Lakes Froth Like Never Before: 10 Points
After the city's heaviest August rain in a century, two giant lakes in Bengaluru are spewing so much toxic foam that residents who live near them have reportedly complained that they are having to stay indoors. On Wednesday, the froth, a stinking cocktail of chemicals and untreated sewage dumped in the lakes, rose to over 10 feet in the Varthur Lak...
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Bengaluru's Varthur Lake Now Spews 10-Feet-High Froth
Overnight rains, Bengaluru's heaviest in August in a century, has the city's Varthur Lake spewing foam and froth like never before. On Wednesday, the foam caused by toxic chemicals and untreated sewage in the lake rose to over 10 feet along the tall fence erected to keep the stinking cocktail of pollutants from spilling on to road in Varthur Kodi l...
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AIIMS Panel Suggests Shifting Of Tughlaqabad Depot After Gas Leak
The Tughlaqabad container depot should be relocated, a panel of experts from AIIMS set up to probe the chemical spill that led to more than 450 children being hospitalised suggested today. The five-member probe panel, which had visited the depot in south Delhi's Tughlaqabad area and the two schools affected by last week's gas leak, has, however, no...
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Anger Piles Up On Vietnamese Poisoned Coast A Year After Spill
Taiwan's Formosa Plastics Corp met with an accident. Within weeks of the incident more than 200 Kilometres of coast had been sullied by the accidental release of chemicals including cyanide and iron hydroxide.
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Train Derails In Washington DC, Leaks Hazardous Chemical
Officials warned Washington DC area residents to brace for a potentially slow commute Monday after a CSX freight train derailed near a Metro stop, sending 14 cars off the tracks and spilling hazardous material.
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Mexico Acid Leak Leaves Orange River, Toxic Water
Ramona Yesenia stood in her town square with two empty jugs, waiting for water to replace the municipal supply contaminated by a chemical spill that turned Mexico's Sonora river orange.
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US says examining use of toxic chemical in Syria
The United States has indications a toxic chemical, probably chlorine, was used in Syria this month and is examining whether the Syrian government was responsible, the U.S. State Department said on Monday.
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300,000 told not to use water in US chemical spill
The White House has issued a federal disaster declaration in West Virginia, where a chemical spill that may have contaminated tap water has led officials to tell at least 300,000 people not to bathe, brush their teeth or wash their clothes.
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Oil spill off Mumbai coast; ONGC fixes leak in pipeline
An oil spill has been reported off the Mumbai coast after a rupture in Oil and Natural Gas Corporation's (ONGC) main trunk pipeline yesterday.
