Driver Killed By Liquid CO2 Poisoning

I would hate to think if that displaced oxygen caused him to suffer. Or introduced a pressure differental into his blood and fluids.

If I had to choose between gas and injection, I would take the gas. The current drug formula for injection is not adequate sedation and potential for burning internally is too high. at least with the gas a few lungfuls and that's that. Straight nitrous would be best. Might need something vs the stomach to kill the gag reflex because anything beyond 48% mix will cause puking.

 

Wow, sad for him. RIP

 

Seems like a lack of propper training if the driver was killed. Company might be found negligent in this death.

 

Or, driver error.

Eide [the witness] stated that that it appeared as though the truck driver must have attempted to drive off with the liquid CO2 hose still attached to a fitting. He says he saw the hose outside the vehicle and described it as the hose ‘going wild’.​

Really not a good move to enter an enclosed area when there is an obvious gas leak.

 

You're correct. Not poison per say (we exhale Co2) but suffocation, more like drowning.

 

My interest reaches back to WW1 with grandfather in corporal heavy weapons D company 313th reg 79th at Malancourt. His unit was the first with the BAR in war which was very effective, and he was apparently concerned with trench guns, a early form of mortars we use today.

His record card that he signed during the mobilization to ww2 indicated he was in excluded public service and of value to the Nation at home and he did sustain burns to both legs. When combined with family story about being blinded temporarily from Chlorine gas I must wonder if the Crown Prince Troops present was able to use that type of weapon in trench mortar against his lines as well. I must assume so.

I got into Hazmat in trucking and took it most seriously even during the Outlaw years. Dispatch learned not to put me on too many of them because I would be slow and going over everything in excessive detail. (That is actually a trait not exactly suited to yer late get going when I am checking pallets to be sure the brake em spikes were put on right.) I stopped doing it for reasons outside of this topic. But tried to stay interested in this problem.

One of the biggest hazmat ever for me was a childhood fire day in a race track in what we called Timonium Maryland north of Baltimore next to I-83 as the crow flies, yea about 2 or 3 miles from the post ofice sorting. Anyway. The fire depts plural lit off about a 500 gallon propane tank in the infield. Then proceeded to bring in huge amounts of iron, to fight this one. Took then a hour and change. Thankfully that tank never had a chance to build pressure to bleve in our faces. But it did get hot. Maybe they punched it so it would not.

There is a couple of other stories I suppose but I think that's quite good for here.