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Hazardous Materials

Fri, 06/27/2008 - 14:24 — yan
Source Department of Transportation
Size 933 MB (all tables)
Dates in Collection 1970 - July 2007
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About the Data: The HAZMAT database contains the incident reports of unintentional releases of hazardous materials for all modes of transportation (air, highway, railway, and water). The Hazardous Materials Incident Report Subsystem is maintained by the Department of Transportation.

In 2005, the form to report incidents (Report 58000.1) was changed, along with the database recording the incidents. The number of tables was increased from three to eight, and many of the codes were replaced with text descriptors.

STORIES AND TIPSHEETS FROM THE IRE RESOURCE CENTER:
To order copies one or more of following stories call the IRE RESOURCE CENTER at 573-882-3364 and give them the FILE NUMBER or TIP SHEET NUMBER. The cost is 15 cents per page for IRE members.

  • Story No. 15476: The Federal Aviation Administration has failed to control hazardous materials violations by air carriers. Hazardous cargo often travels aboard commercial as well as cargo carriers.
  • Story No. 8795: Los Angeles Times conducts a data-base study of 68,000 hazardous materials incidents from around the United States, and finds the number has risen 37 percent from 1982 to 1991; injuries to people as a result of truck spills rose 374 percent, and almost all of the deaths--106 out of 108--involved tanker trucks; gasoline, ammonia and sulfuric acid are the most dangerous liquids transported; gives account of a railway accident that dumped weed killer into the Sacramento River, killing virtually every organism along the river for miles; gives account of the death of a whole family as a result of a gasoline truck accident, Sept. 20, 1992.
  • Story No. 19612: "A train derailment and fatal chemical spill on Jan. 18, 2002, in Minot, N.D., exposed the vulnerability of our nation's transportation of common but hazardous agricultural chemical," the Forum reports. The story depict the disaster -- known as the largest spill of anhydrous ammonia, a farm fertilizer -- in the world but also investigates its causes. The main findings are that pre-1989 railroad tanker cars are susceptible to puncturing in accidents in cold weather; tracks often contain a number of defects; and rescue workers and hospitals are ill-prepared for disasters.
  • Story No. 22548: The investigation showed that Inland Southern California faces increasing risk of toxic spills from freight trains carrying chlorine, anhydrous ammonia and other deadly chemicals. The authors found a public unaware of the risk, local authorities unprepared and an industry with a questionable safety record.
  • Story No. 19691: A Press-Enterprise series showing how Riverside County, Calif. government fostered and subsidized polluting industries in a community that already had some of the worst air pollution in the nation, which was found to be hurting the health of the community's children.

  • Tipsheet No. 1290: Fallik lists Web sites for researching transportation including crash and accident data, trucking, hazardous materials, airlines, railroads, school bus safety and FAA.
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