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Three Qantas cabin crew were hospitalized after inhaling fumes from a faulty oven on a Boeing 767-300, flight QF476 between Perth and Melbourne.
"None of the passengers detected anything,” said a spokesman for Qantas. “It was an odour the cabin crew picked up in the galley area just 20 minutes before landing."
Caused by a chemical reaction of setting , cement, on a BP oil rig, a methane gas bubble erupted, leaking 3 million gallons of crude oil into the ocean and killing 11 workers.
Yet there are so many gas related incidents nearly every day.
After inhaling poisonous fumes from a methamphetamine lab, Chief deputy of Morgan sherriff received treatment on May 21st.
County Drug Task Force agents and deputies were serving a felony offence 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. This released a chemical smoke cloud, setting the chemicals on fire.
Toxic fumes were released on May 5, in Falk¬ville, after a suspect dumped the contents of a lab down a kitchen sink. Ambulances dashed the suspect and two drug task force agents to Decatur General Hospital after they inhaled chemical fumes.
While checking a manhole cover, Jabin Lakes, 31, died on May 7th, in Middleton. Lakes dropped into the sewer after yielding to a mystifying gas. Three firefighters were admitted in the hospital.
On May 14th two workers were released from Whangarei Hospital, New Zealand, after being overcome by fumes from a catchment pond, at a Carter Holt Harvey factory.
A Philadelphia man was apprehended and a Pennsylvania bus driver needed medical treatment on April 17th.
The sole bus passenger purportedly lit an unidentified substance in the bus restroom, several times. The fumes caused the driver to become ill, previous to collapsing on the ground.
Three Bammel Middle School Spring students were chucking smelling salts around in a classroom, at 16711 Ella Boulevard, on April 16.
Four of the 12 students in the classroom were overcome by the odour and needed treatment, when the smelling salts hit the floor.
Two workers collapsed and were hospitalized when they were exposed to chlorine gas at the water treatment factory in Melbourne, Australia. A 45-year-old worker had attempted to neutralize waste product with hydrochloric acid, on April 15. It took 35 firefighter three hours to bring the incident under control.
Walkerville Collegiate was forced to evacuate when a mysterious airborne chemical left dozens of students gasping for air.
Twenty-six people were treated at the scene. 14 students and two teachers were hospitalized.
A man was killed and three others, who tried to resuscitate him were hospitalized, after exposure to a chemical spray at a house in western Sydney, Australia. He collapsed and went into cardiac arrest, while spraying weeds at his home.
After a female student dropped a bottle of pepper spray on the ground it exploded, at St Francis Prep High School. 11 students were hospitalized.
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