CDC: Language barrier caused chlorine gas leak

By: Associated Press - Texarkana Gazette

Associated Press Employees at the Tyson food processing plant in Springdale Ark., are helped by emergency personnel June 27, 2011, after being exposed to chlorine gas. The chlorine gas leak that sickened nearly 200 people happened because a worker who couldn’t read the English-language ...

LITTLE ROCK—A chlorine gas leak that sickened nearly 200 people at a Tyson Foods plant in Arkansas last year happened because a worker who couldn’t read the English-language label on a barrel of chemicals inadvertently poured bleach into it, the Centers for Disease Control and P...

Published: 12/07/2012