Author(s) Deidre Nelms Eliana Bernat

Key Findings: Chemical Incident Tracking 2021-2023

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This reports summarizes key findings from data on hazardous chemical incidents collected between 1 January 2021 and 15 October 15.

In January 2021, the Coalition to Prevent Chemical Disasters began tracking hazardous chemical incidents from news reports. This project was undertaken in order to document the frequency of hazardous chemical incidents in the United States, and to motivate federal agencies to adopt stronger regulations to prevent chemical disasters and protect workers and communities.

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Hazards NBC - Nuclear, Biological, Chemical

Themes Disaster risk management Risk identification and assessment

Country and region United States of America

Number of pages

10 p.

Publication year

2023

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