[CPEO-MEF] Aberdeen Proving Ground (MD) chemical agent leaks

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxic gas mishap at APG
No injuries are reported; Army says 3 incidents in a week are unrelated; 
community is alarmed


By Justin Fenton
Baltimore Sun
April 21, 2006

Four Aberdeen Proving Ground employees were taken to a local hospital 
yesterday after a report of a chemical leak, the third incident in about 
a week during which workers were at risk of exposure to lethal 
substances at the Army base in Harford County.

None of the workers was injured in the incident, the second at the 
Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, a 1.5 million-square-foot research 
and engineering facility within APG for chemical and biological defense. 
The center's director pledged a thorough review of safety procedures.

Yesterday's incident involved phosgene, a toxic industrial chemical used 
as a choking agent in World War I and to make plastics and pesticides.

Army officials say the three incidents are unrelated and their timing 
coincidental. Still, residents of surrounding communities, which had 
largely been calm since the base cleared a 1,600-ton stockpile of 
mustard agent last year, are worried.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/harford/bal-md.ha.apg21apr21,0,4629103.story?coll=bal-local-harford
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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