Toxic Gas Cloud Sends 28 Workers to Hospital
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SEATTLE — An accident at a Boeing Co. manufacturing plant Friday created a cloud of toxic gas that sent 28 people to the hospital for treatment and forced the shutdown of a facility employing 2,300 people, company officials said.
Only one injury was considered potentially serious. The other victims were sent to a hospital as a precautionary measure, a Boeing spokesman said.
Officials said an orange gas cloud formed outside Boeing’s fabrication division 20 miles south of Seattle as workers were transferring nitric hydrofluoric acid into a tank for treatment and disposal.
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