100 workers injured in gas leakage

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100 workers injured in gas leakage

Published on Jan 11 , 2006 The Nation

 

 

 

 

 

Pathum Thani - Some 100 workers at a factory making hard disk parts were rushed to hospitals late Tuesday night after two tanks of gas used for cleaning tools leaked, police said.

 

 

Police said the leakage occurred at about 11 pm at the Belton Industrial ( Thailand ) in Klong Luang district. About 2,000 workers were on the night shift, police said.

 

 

Sangad Kosoomsuriya, the plant manager, told police that the gas was vapourised form of acid used for cleaning tools at the plant. Two tanks leaked without explosion, he said.

 

 

Workers seeking the white fume from the tanks ran out of the plant but some 100 of them inhaled parts of the gas and suffered nausea. Some of them became unconscious.

 

 

The workers were rushed to Thammasat Hospital and Phattara Thonburi Hospital . Three workers remained in the intensive care unit of Thammasat Hospital .

 

 

Pol Col Surasak Khunnarong, commander of Klong Lung police station, said police have yet to investigate whether the accidence was caused by negligence or not.