A Wisconsin recycling plant is warning residents to dispose of propane tanks safely after finding dozens of full gas canisters dumped in its metals collection, jsonline.com reports. Waukesha County recycling plant manager Jim Lewis said residents had tossed full and partially-full propane bottles into their recyclables – with 55 propane bottles pulled from the metals […]
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Fiskars Brands, Inc. of Madison, Wisconsin, announced a voluntary recall today of Fiskars’ SmartPower String Trimmers. Unfortunately, this isn’t the first weed whacker recalled this summer. The problems are usually similar: fire, burn and laceration hazards. In this case, the trimmer’s engine vibrations were found to […]
Dubai Civil Defense and Emirates Gas have teamed up to launch a campaign to educate propane consumers on awareness and safe usage, the Khaleej Times reported last week. As part of the program, the Dubai Municipality will send gas safety experts to 15,000 houses over the month of Ramadan to teach people with a direct, […]
Daniel Herriman, 40, will appear before a Magistrate Judge in Muskogee, OK, today for allegedly attaching an improvised explosive device (IED) to a natural gas pipeline, FuelFix.com reported. He faces federal charges of attempting to destroy property used in interstate or foreign commerce. According to the Seminole County Sheriff Office’s report, two Enerfin Resources employees […]
An Enterprise Products Partners pipeline carrying natural gas liquids leaked approximately 140,000 gallons of fuel into an Iowa section of the Missouri River on Saturday, according to a Reuters report. Enterprise spokesman Rick Rainey said controllers detected a drop in pressure in the pipeline between Nebraska and Iowa early Saturday morning and immediately shut it […]
Over the years, the propane industry has put forth a strong effort to clean up the fuel’s reputation as explosive and potentially dangerous through safer tanks, equipment, and training. In the most recent of these endeavors, the Rocky Mountain Propane Gas Association and the Propane Education Research Council (PERC) teamed up with Safe Fire, a […]
Fiskars Canada Inc., the Ontario-based company that manufactures those orange-handled scissors you see in almost every school and office, has issued a voluntary recall of its propane-powered weed whacker, Occupational Health & Safety reported today. Health Canada, in collaboration with Fiskars, found mechanical problems with the appliance that could lead to consumer injuries through flammability, […]
When pilots in the Air Force’s F-22 program began showing signs of hypoxia, a lack of oxygen to the brain, blood tests revealed a range of toxins including anti-freeze, synthetic oil and propane, Minyanville.com reported this week. “These guys are getting tested for toxins and they’ve [gotten] toxins out of their bloodstreams,” said one source […]
Pakistan’s Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) dismissed regulation changes that would’ve required propane distributors to pass a safety test to become registered under OGRA’s list of approved distributors, PakTribune reported today. After a string of tank explosions and accidents injured several Pakistanis, some of them fatally, the Authority said they were creating a safety […]
As droughts, climate change, and record-breaking heat waves take their toll this summer, a majority of states across the East Coast are experiencing dangerous declines in air quality. Emergency room visits have spiked with people suffering from respiratory flare-ups, heat stroke and heat exhaustion. The dry, dirty air also inspired burn bans in multiple states […]