About every other day during the past decade, a gas leak in the United States has destroyed property, hurt someone or killed someone, a USA TODAY Network investigation finds. The most destructive blasts have killed at least 135 people, injured 600 and caused $2 billion in damages since 2004.
About 30 old propane storage tanks sitting out on a property fronting State Highway 274 in Seven Points, TX, were tampered with October 13 in an apparent attempt to empty them and remove their regulators for scrap, according to The Monitor Online news agency.
Gas detectors have a buyer power score of 3.7 out of 5, indicating moderate buyer negotiation, according to IBISWorld business research. The research report indicates the availability of inexpensive imports helps to keep prices low and indicates also low price driver volatility.
State-of-the-art technology adapted from NASA’s Mars Rover program, originally designed to find methane on the Red Planet, is being applied back on earth by Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) to help guide PG&E crews using a tablet interface to identify possible gas leak locations, fast-tracking their ability to repair gas leaks.
The Pittsburgh Technology Council will name the winners at an awards event on Tuesday evening in Pittsburgh
October 21, 2014
Industrial Scientific, the global leader in gas detection, has been named a finalist in the Pittsburgh Technology Council’s Tech 50 Awards in the Advanced Manufacturing Company of the Year category.
Published annually by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Top Workplaces list includes the area’s most successful companies based on employee feedback
October 14, 2014
Industrial Scientific, the global leader in gas detection, has been recognized a Top Workplace in Pittsburgh. The Top Workplaces program honors the region’s best employers based on the results of employee surveys conducted by WorkplaceDynamics, LLP.
Keeping Calibration Gas in production in the face of disaster while keeping its workers safe
October 9, 2014
Working smarter and working safer, Gasco implements an incident response plan complete with an “Emergency Management Team” to keep workers safe and orders filled.
ISHN's 2015 Readers' Choice Awards and the ASSE Safety 2015 Attendee Choice Awards programs are now accepting submissions. Just one product entry will qualify your company to win both awards programs.
A new learning system that focuses on the visual, a wireless multi-gas detection system and Level 5 cut resistant gloves were among the EHS-related products featured on ISHN.com this week.
Connext safety solutions offers new gains in confined space protection, worker safety and productivity, process control and analytics-based risk mitigation
September 17, 2014
Honeywell (NYSE: HON) demonstrated the industry’s first plant-wide, deployable wireless gas detection system to include multi-gas and radiation-detection instrumentation with biometrics, GPS, and WiFi or Mesh wireless radio signaling at NSC Congress and Expo (Booth #4537).