Workers flee for their lives as chemical leak hits Chonburi factory

 

Picture: Workpoint News

 

Some 130 workers at a Muang district factory in Chonburi ran for their lives after a chemical leak on Wednesday morning.

 

The Thai Meiji 2012 is a metal coating factory.

 

Clouds of a noxious substance were seen billowing into the sky from a storage tank.

 

Workpoint News said they believed the substance to be colorless but pungent nitric acid that would be dangerous if got on the skin or inhaled.

 

Many workers were treated for nausea and feeling faint at the scene and taken to hospital.

 

But there were no reports of death or injury.

 

The factory management said later Wednesday that the situation was under control.

 

Source: Workpoint News

 

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If the workers were running for their lives,  who stopped the chemicals from killing neighbors then?

 

I can just picture it...quick Somchai it's going to blow!!!!

 

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Clouds of a noxious substance were seen billowing into the sky

An almost weekly occurrence as they set fire to local rubbish tips. 

With all this toxic or noxious gas spewing into the sky, no wonder they need to reduce air pollutants by fining smokers for exhaling

It looks like nitric acid vapor.

On 26/10/2017 at 8:23 AM, mikebell said:

An almost weekly occurrence as they set fire to local rubbish tips. 

Or the hot air blown by a lot of the more vocal on here some days ?