Major Accidents Related to Manure: A Case Series from Switzerland

Knoblauch, A; Steiner, Beat

doi:10.1179/oeh.1999.5.3.177

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“…The first incidents happened accidently to coal mine workers and later to farmers after manure gas intoxication4,5. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of acute pulmonary toxicity related to methane gas inhalation.…”

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confidence: 81%

Acute Respiratory Distress Due to Methane Inhalation

Kwon

Lee

et al. 2013

Tuberc Respir Dis

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Inhalation of toxic gases can lead to pneumonitis. It has been known that methane gas intoxication causes loss of consciousness or asphyxia. There is, however, a paucity of information about acute pulmonary toxicity from methane gas inhalation. A 21-year-old man was presented with respiratory distress after an accidental exposure to methane gas for one minute. He came in with a drowsy mentality and hypoxemia. Mechanical ventilation was applied immediately. The patient's symptoms and chest radiographic findings were consistent with acute pneumonitis. He recovered spontaneously and was discharged after 5 days without other specific treatment. His pulmonary function test, 4 days after methane gas exposure, revealed a restrictive ventilatory defect. In conclusion, acute pulmonary injury can occur with a restrictive ventilator defect after a short exposure to methane gas. The lung injury was spontaneously resolved without any significant sequela.

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Acute Respiratory Distress Due to Methane Inhalation

Kwon

Lee

et al. 2013

Tuberc Respir Dis

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“…Hazards related to its storage and fermentation include environmental asphyxiation from fermentation gas by-products and immersion with possible drowning. Pederson [44] and Osbern [45] each reported two such lethal immersion cases, Spiers [11] made passing mention of 3 cases of fatal drowning, Knoblauch [46] mentioned several and detailed one of these drowning fatalities, while Fahy [47] presented two cases of near-drowning. With these waste systems, however, the main danger appears to be one of environmental asphyxia from replacement of O 2 by other gases (e.g.…”

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Unique drowning in an atypical medium: paraffin wax in the setting of a motor vehicle crash—case report and literature survey

Mullan

Vey²

2010

Forensic Sci Med Pathol

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Among the various modes of death due to asphyxiation, drowning is unique. Unlike other types of suffocation associated with occluding airway obstructions (i.e. choking and smothering); with drowning, there is typically filling and involvement of the majority of the tracheobronchial tree and aerodigstive tract. Although the usual drowning medium is water, it can also occur in other media. Moreover, although drowning sometimes occurs in the setting of a motor vehicle accident, an element of vehicular submersion or immersion is usually operative in such instances. The case presented here is that of a motor vehicle crash which resulted in drowning where no immersion of the vehicle occurred. Moreover, the drowning medium was paraffin wax, rather than water. Other cases in the literature of drowning in atypical media and also those which are reported in the concomitant presence of a motor vehicle accident are presented.

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“…Before using electrical equipment or generating sparks in the vicinity of any plumbing, sewage drains, waste treatment facilities, or manure pits, the area must be thoroughly ventilated. 2 The use of simple ventilation can reduce the volumetric concentration of methane below its lower flammability limit, eliminating the possibility of combustion. 7,8 Because methane is odorless, combustible levels may accumulate without any noticeable warning.…”

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Bathtub Fire: An Extraordinary Burn Injury

Spencer¹,

Noland²,

Gottlieb³

2006

Journal of Burn Care & Research

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A 42-year-old male painter presented to our facility with superficial and partial-thickness burns to his face and both arms. He had been in his usual state of good health until the day of admission, at which time he was power-sanding old bathtubs in preparation for repainting them. Because this activity generates large amounts of dust, he routinely worked with the bathroom door closed to avoid contaminating each apartment.Using his electric sander, the subject began sanding a bathtub in an apartment that had been vacant for more than a year. Suddenly, a ball of orange fire engulfed him, accompanied by an explosive sound. In an instant, the fire disappeared as quickly as it had begun. Startled, the painter looked down and saw that his sander was still grinding away in the bottom of the tub. Reaching down to unplug it, he noticed a little ring of blue flame, "like a stovetop burner," surrounding the bathtub drain. He blew on the drain and extinguished the blue flame. He stood up and was surprised to find that the bathroom door had literally been blown off its hinges by the force of the explosion. Finding the hairs on his arms singed, he left the vicinity, ran water over his arms, and then sought medical attention.On admission, he was found to be a healthy 42-year-old man with superficial and partial-thickness burns on his face and both arms that were worse on the right than the left. A clear demarcation of burnt from normal skin was observed at the level of his shirtsleeves, as well as the clear outline of his facial dust mask (which had protected his mouth, nose, moustache, and chin). The patient had no evidence of blast injury.Operative débridment revealed that the burns were superficial partial thickness. Biobrane ® (Bertek Pharmaceuticals Inc., Morgantown, WV) was applied to the affected areas, and the patient recovered uneventfully.

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Major Accidents Related to Manure: A Case Series from Switzerland

Cited by 9 publications

References 6 publications

Acute Respiratory Distress Due to Methane Inhalation

Acute Respiratory Distress Due to Methane Inhalation

Unique drowning in an atypical medium: paraffin wax in the setting of a motor vehicle crash—case report and literature survey

Bathtub Fire: An Extraordinary Burn Injury

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