Employee Mixed Cleaners
REPORT: ACCIDENT CREATED CHLORINE GAS, WHICH WAS INHALED
Posted: June 30, 2011 at 5:25 a.m.
Springdale firefighters help a woman to an ambulance outside the Tyson Foods plant on Berry Street in Springdale on Monday morning. A chlorine leak evacuated the plant and sent more than 20 employees to area hospitals at about 9:15 am Monday.
An accidental mixture of two cleaning chemicals created the chlorine gas that sent almost 175 Tyson chicken plant workers to hospitals Monday, according to a fire department report.
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How could this mistake happen? Surely not by someone who could not read the instructions, or understand what was told to him in English?
Posted by: arkieblogger
June 30, 2011 at 12:09 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
arkieblogger-
People make mistakes. Actually, every day people with various levels of education and comprehension make mistakes.
Thankfully, everyone exposed seems to be fairing well and should make a full recovery which is all that really matters, isn't it?
Posted by: nwlocal
June 30, 2011 at 1:03 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
If you know anyone exposed suggest they see an independent pulmonologist for an INDEPENDENT medical exam, not medical people who are on Tyson's payroll. Dead/injured lung tissue spreads and over time it turns into emphysema.
Posted by: cdawg
June 30, 2011 at 7:03 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
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