POISONING DUE TO DECAY GASES IN THE STRAINER PIT

Abstract

The paper describes an accidental group poisoning by decay gases in the pit. Agroup of workers did some works on making a straining pit at the manure collectionlocation. Four workers went down the pit through a hole on the concrete block whenthey got immediately poisoned to death by decay gases especially hydrogen sulfide.In a sample of the air that was breathed in, by using the gas-fluid chromatographymethod and mass detector, it was found out that there was moderate presence ofammonia beside a high concentration of hydrogen sulfide.

Keywords

• Decaygas
• hydrogen sulfide
• strainer pit