Life Threatening Unseen Enemy
Posted on 30 May 2010 by LynThomas in Health, Society
Fumes from a faulty oven on a Qantas Boeing 767-300, during flight QF476 between Perth and Melbourne, caused three cabin crew to be hospitalized.
A spokesman for Qantas said, “None of the passengers detected anything. It was an odour the cabin crew picked up in the galley area just 20 minutes before landing.”
The oven was instantly replaced and the aircraft returned to service.
A methane gas explosion, caused by a chemical reaction of setting cement, killed 11 workers on the BP oil rig and subsequently poured over 3 million gallons of crude oil into the ocean.
Yet there are many gas related incidents accidents that occur almost daily.
Methamphetamine Lab Fumes
On May 21st the Morgan sherriff’s chief deputy had to receive treatment, after inhaling toxic fumes from a methamphetamine lab.
County Drug Task Force agents and deputies were serving a felony arrest warrant on Justin Parker, 29, when he dumped the contents of a one-pot meth lab out the back door of his mobile home, releasing a chemical smoke cloud, causing the chemicals to ignite.
On May 5, after a suspect dumped the contents of the lab down a kitchen sink, releasing toxic fumes, ambulances rushed two drug task force agents and the suspect to Decatur General Hospital after they inhaled chemical fumes at a Wilhite Road home in Falkville.
Sewer Fumes
Jabin Lakes, 31, died on May 7th, while checking a manhole cover, in Middleton. Lakes fell into the sewer after succumbing to a mysterious gas. Three firefighters were injured and sent to the Atrium Medical Centre for treatment.
Catchment Pond Fumes
Two workers were discharged from Whangarei Hospital, New Zealand, on May 14th after being overcome by fumes from a catchment pond, at a Carter Holt Harvey factory.
Unknown Substance
On April 17th a Philadelphia man was arrested and a Pennsylvania bus driver needed medical treatment.
The bus’s only occupant allegedly lit an unknown substance in the bus restroom. The fumes caused the driver to become ill, before collapsing on the ground.
The police smelled an unidentified smell when they entered the bus and found burned material in the toilet area.
The driver told the police the passenger had lit the unknown substance several times.
Smelling Salts, Texas
On April 16, three Bammel Middle School Spring students were tossing smelling salts around in a classroom at, 16711 Ella Boulevard, on Friday morning.
The smelling salts hit the floor and four of the 12 students in the classroom were overcome by the odor and needed treatment.
Water Treatment Factory, Australia
After a 45-year-old worker had attempted to neutralise waste product with hydrochloric acid, on April 15, two workers collapsed and were hospitalized, when they were exposed to chlorine gas at the water treatment factory in Melbourne, Australia.
It took 35 firefighter three hours to bring the incident under control.
Airborne Chemical
A mysterious airborne chemical forced the evacuation of Walkerville Collegiate and left dozens of students gasping for air.
Twenty-six people were treated at the scene. Ambulances took two teachers and 14 students to hospital.
Garden Spray Kills
A man was killed and three other people, who tried to resuscitate him, were hospitalized after exposure to a chemical spray at a house in western Sydney, Australia.
The man was spraying weeds at a house, when he collapsed and went into cardiac arrest.
Pepper Spray
Eleven students were hospitalized, after a female student dropped a bottle of pepper spray on the ground and exploded, at St Francis Prep High School.
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