The hazards of nitrogen asphyxiation

RP news wires, Noria Corporation

Two contract employees were overcome and fatally injured by nitrogen as they performed maintenance work near a 24-inch opening on the top of a reactor at the Valero Refinery in Delaware City, Del., in November 2005. One of the workers died attempting rescue.

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