News Forum - UPDATE: Poisonous gas another cause of death in Bangkok sewer tragedy

[Thaiger]

UPDATE Another worker from the Bangkok sewer tragedy died in hospital this afternoon. Officials said the cause of death could be a combination of electrocution, a lack of air, and poisonous gas in the sewer. In total, three electrical workers died, 26  year old Thosapol Faksawat, 23 year old Warawut U-Nath, and 37 year old Direk Intarangsee who lost his fight for life later on this afternoon in hospital. The inspector of police, and officers from the Public Work Department, Environment Department, Disease Control Department, Pollution Control Department, and Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, all put their heads together […]

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[Ramanathan.P]

There you go....as I commented in the earlier report....it is the confined space issue with the presence of H2S gas which is high density displacing the O2 level, which eventually leads to the domino effect of fatality.

[Graham]

Obviously piss poor job planning, any JSA done, probably zero safety training with regards to possible H2s, the list goes on and on but this is Thailand. 

RIP to those poor souls.

[Giltee]

2 hours ago, Ramanathan.P said:

There you go....as I commented in the earlier report....it is the confined space issue with the presence of H2S gas which is high density displacing the O2 level, which eventually leads to the domino effect of fatality.

Suxh a a waste and could’ve been prevented. To put it simply the lethal gas is heavy and a gas detector should’ve been used before they went down and during their work. I’ve seen it before in Auckland New Zealand.  Also the power supply should’ve been turned off and the switch locked so it couldn’t be turned on. Too many unnecessary electrocutions in Thailand. 

[ChrisS]

True cause of death is of course the seemingly complete lack of any ENFORCED health and safety legislation in Thailand!

[Faz]

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[LuckyStrike]

No confined space training or program. Very sad.

[Prosaap]

An accident is always a accident normally they must learn from that investigate then make safety protocols so it not happen again only here look like they not want to learn or dont care    
to bad for those guys totally  unnecessary