AAP General News (Australia)
02-18-2000
NSW: Forty people treated in fumes leak
Forty people have been treated by paramedics after toxic fumes spread into a factory's
air-conditioning system in Sydney's west today.
An ambulance spokesman says 16 of the victims were taken to hospital with minor problems.
The workers fell ill when fumes from a butane-powered concrete-cutting machine at the
Ashfield factory were spread through the building by the air-conditioning system this
afternoon.
He says butane produces carbon monoxide fumes, the spokesman said.
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KEYWORD: FUMES
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