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One Airlifted To Hospital After Being Overcome By Gas Near Flomaton
October 27, 2014
One person was airlifted to a Pensacola hospital this morning after being overcome by a dangerous gas near Flomaton.
The man was cleaning the inside of a tanker truck when he came in contact with hydrogen sulfide (commonly called H2S gas) as a facility on Pecan Leaf Lane. According to Flomaton Fire Chief Steve Stanton, the man was able to get out of the tank on his own. He was transported by Escambia County (FL) EMS to their post in Century and then flown by LifeFlight to a Pensacola hospital where he was expected to recover.
The tanker truck was used to transport salt water between oil facilities, Stanton said, and it apparently contained a residual amount of H2S gas.
NorthEscambia.com file photo, click to enlarge.
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9 Responses to “One Airlifted To Hospital After Being Overcome By Gas Near Flomaton”
I’m glad this man is okay but his could have been easily avoided. In my experience with confined spaces and the workers who deal with transporting anything in a tanker, these men and women receive training on those spaces and the use of proper safety equipment when entering ANY confined space, especially those used to haul substances like Hydrogen Sulfide.
When I worked in the oil fields I was too big to enter most tank ports, but I was on the pulling end of the safety line of the tank man”s safety harness, in case of just such an emergency.
Get well soon Randy!!!!
Training and awareness is essential to working in confined spaces and around toxic gases.
This individual is very fortunate.
Hopefully, this company will take the incident very seriously and conduct a safety stand down to address their workplace safety program.
This could have been a deadly outcome…H2S kills in confined spaces at low levels for extended periods.
Praying for you and your family. Get well soon
Dangerous job.
H2S is nasty stuff.
Praying for you.
Thank god my dad’s ok. If you work around h2s you need to becareful this stuff is no joke. But thank you Lord for being there for my dad.
Praying for you Randy!