Two Vietnamese workers appear to have succumbed to hydrogen sulfide poisoning before falling into wastewater tank
Taiwan News
Date: 2017/10/16
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The bodies of two Vietnamese workers were found inside an
Bodies of two foreign laborers found at the bottom of an effluent tank. (By Central News Agency)
wastewater treatment tank in a recycling plant in Tainan City’s Guantian industrial zone yesterday morning (Oct. 5), reported CNA.
The Tainan City Fire Department received a call in the morning that the foreign workers were feared to have fallen into the wastewater treatment tank. When firefighters arrived on the scene, a pungent odor was evident and gas detection equipment registered the presence of hydrogen sulfide gas, which is very poisonous, corrosive, and flammable. After locating the two foreign workers, the firefighters confirmed that they were dead.
According to an initial investigation by the Police, after the two workers failed to appear at a scheduled health check, an inspection of the CCTV monitors showed the two foreign employees in the vicinity of the treatment tank at midnight before disappearing from view. [FULL STORY]
