Fatal hydrogen sulphide poisoning in unconfined spaces
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Fatal hydrogen sulphide poisoning in unconfined spaces.
Fatal hydrogen sulphide poisoning usually occurs in confined spaces. We report two fatal accidents in unconfined spaces. The first accident caused the death of three workers who entered an unconfined room in a silo of sludge at the same time that a truck dumped several tons of sludge from water purification stations. The hydrogen sulphide that had accumulated inside the silo spilled out into th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Occupational Medicine
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0962-7480,1471-8405
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqr021