Industrial Accident by chemical leak in Houston Kills Four
A chemical leak at a DuPont plant in La Porte, Texas, took the lives of four employees last November, including two brothers. Officials say the facility typically stores between 50 and 250 tons of methyl mercaptan, a product that gives a strong smell to odorless gases and other substances, so that their presence is more easily detectable. Local residents told authorities after the incident that they had smelled the methyl mercaptan in the air, but didn’t become concerned because there were “always funny smells emanating from the plant. Company officials say that, though the methyl mercaptan did leak into the atmosphere outside the plant, its concentration in the community was never at a level that posed any threat to citizens. If you ever get injured on the job, contact a new jersey workers compensation lawyer to get help.
Police reports indicate that all four individuals who died worked at the DuPont plant. Authorities say that the workers who died were trapped inside the plant for more than an hour before emergency responders were alerted. They confirmed that two of the decedents were brothers, and that one had died trying to rescue the other, who was working to contain the leak. Initial investigations pointed to a defective valve
The leak caused some anxiety among local residents, who not that the facility also houses a stockpile of methyl isocyanate (MIC), the toxic substance that caused the deaths of 2,200 people in Bhopal, India, in 1984.
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