The Assessment of Community Vulnerability to Acute Hazardous Materials Incidents
| Author(s) | Gabor, Thomas | |
| Author(s) | Griffith, Terri K. | |
| Date Accessioned | 2005-03-04T02:09:02Z | |
| Date Available | 2005-03-04T02:09:02Z | |
| Publication Date | 1979 | |
| Description | The problem posed by hazardous chemicals manufactured, stored and transported in the United States and Canada has been well documented (Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, 1976). In the U.S., acute incidents involving hazardous materials in 1977 resulted in 32 deaths and 543 injuries (Johnstone, 1978). In 1978, the two railroad incidents in Waverly, Tennessee and Youngstown, Florida alone produced 24 deaths, 159 injuries, 3.3 million dollars (National Transportation Safety Board, 1978). In Canada, the total number of incidents involving hazardous products has been said to be in the neighborhood of five thousand annually. | en |
| Sponsor | Applied Science and Research Applications Directorate of the National Science Foundation (NSF). | en |
| Extent | 557413 bytes | |
| MIME type | application/pdf | |
| URL | http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/431 | |
| Language | en_US | |
| Publisher | Disaster Research Center | en |
| Part of Series | Preliminary Papers;56 | |
| Keywords | chemical disaster | en |
| Keywords | vulnerability | |
| Keywords | risk | |
| Title | The Assessment of Community Vulnerability to Acute Hazardous Materials Incidents | en |
| Type | Other | en |