Chemistry teachers have recently gotten a pretty bad rap. If you’re familiar with the runaway television show, “Breaking Bad,” you’re more than aware that high school chemists have the chops necessary to turn out some pretty insidious and hideous concoctions. While we were comforted by the forethought that Walter White and Jesse Pinkman were fictional…
Two workers were recently killed by a chemical explosion in Barbour County, West Virginia that could have been prevented with a hazardous material storage building. The incident is under an ongoing investigation by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, specific details have not been entirely released. The Board is currently being threatened with defunding under the sitting Presidential administration.…
In North Andover, Massachusetts an explosion took place at Dow Chemical Plant that injured four people last year. The investigation on the explosion has taken place over the course of the recent year, and the company has been found guilty of many infractions. OSHA stated the infractions are serious and listed them as such: Failure to…