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11-08-2019 10:14 AM
So horrible and sad and really unnecessary. Just someone doing his job----I feel for their family----
11-08-2019 10:16 AM
@godi wrote:This is so sad. I worked in a hardware store and birds would get in through lawn and garden. The manager hired some man to come in at night to get rid of them. We all thought he was going to be humane about it but alas no. He sprayed and put chemicals all over. I opened that morning with two other people. Within a half hour our lungs were on fire, eyes swelling shut. Hard to breath. We called an ambulance and they shut us down. Called in Hazmat. It was crazy. We had to dispose of our clothes. We were rushed to hospitals where they scrubbed us down and monitored us for 24 hours. Thank goodness no lasting lung and vision damage. They blew the store out with fans. Reopened the next day. The fly by night bird killer was sited for using illegal chemicals in the wrong environment.
That is REALLY bad. He could have used nets.
11-08-2019 12:33 PM
@LindaSal I can't use bleach to clean or whiten clothes. It literally takes my breath away and sears my lungs. I had a toilet one time that needed to be whiten from mold buildup. I drenched paper towels in bleach and placed around the inside of toilet. I cleaned the toilet. Seared my lungs and couldn't sleep in my bedroom for a month. It took forever to air out my room. I never buy bleach or use the Clorex bleach wipes.
11-08-2019 12:35 PM
Bad week for BWW
11-08-2019 01:28 PM
@FlowerBear wrote:Buffalo Wild Wings employee dies after exposure to 'common' cleaning agent, 10 others hospitalized.
An employee of a Buffalo Wild Wings in Massachusetts died and 10 others were hospitalized Thursday night after being exposed to a floor cleaner inside the restaurant.
Just after 5:30 p.m. Thursday, emergency responders in Burlington were called to the scene following the report of a "sick individual and a potential chemical release," interim Fire Chief Michael Patterson told reporters in a video from the scene.
Patterson said the fire department arrived and found a man being treated by paramedics outside of the restaurant. He was transported to a hospital, where he died.
The man, an employee of the restaurant, was exposed to a sodium hypochlorite floor cleaner called "Super 8," which Patterson said is commonly used. Of the 11 total people hospitalized as a result of the incident, only two were customers, Patterson said.
Things affect people differently! This is awful. Once a neighbor became very ill after their carpet was cleaned by a carpet cleaning company. Things can be so toxic!
Sodium hypochlorite is Chlorine Bleach. The same chemical found in Chlorox. Either there is inadequate ventilation, a manufacturing error by the mfr of the Super 8, or, I’m thinking, that the cleaner was somehow mixed this with ammonia or any other acid.
11-08-2019 01:46 PM - edited 11-08-2019 01:52 PM
About Super 8. It contains sodium hypochlorite at 8%-10%.Thats high.
Usually used for Commercial settings, Chlorox Disinfecting Bleach, has sodium hypochlorite at 7.4%.
11-08-2019 01:48 PM
I assume someone grossly misused that cleaning product.
11-08-2019 02:08 PM - edited 11-08-2019 02:11 PM
Chlorine bleach is a common household chemical with unique properties that make it useful in flood cleanup and recovery activities.
Essentially, chlorine bleach is a diluted mixture of water and sodium hypochlorite. Typically, it is sold over the counter as a laundering and cleaning solution with concentrations of sodium hypochlorite ranging from 4 to 6 percent. It also is sold as a sanitizing and/or disinfecting agent and may have concentrations ranging from 4 to as high as 9 percent.
Sodium hypochlorite, the active ingredient in chlorine bleach, is a very powerful oxidizer. Oxidation reactions are corrosive, and solutions burn skin and cause irreversible eye damage, particularly when used in concentrated forms. Thus, users must take a number of precautions to avoid personal injury when working with bleach.
When handling relatively concentrated chlorine bleach right out of the container, always:
If exposed to the concentrated material:
When working with bleach diluted with water and/or soap, remember to:
These are some additional issues to consider when working with bleach:
11-08-2019 02:13 PM
This is just frightening! I am at a loss for words right now.😲
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11-08-2019 02:17 PM - edited 11-08-2019 03:11 PM
One thing to consider is that the restaurant purchased what they thought was Super 8. I read an article months ago that discussed the counterfeiting of things, such as large drums of cleaning products. Tide is often counterfeited.
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