This Friday, April 17, around twenty employees of the Grenoble company Minitubes feared being poisoned after a perchlorethylene leak. None required hospitalization.
Around twenty employees of Minitubes, a company in Grenoble (Isère) specializing in the manufacture of small metal tubes, feared having been poisoned after a perchlorethylene leak on Friday April 17
This volatile chemical, which evaporates quickly into the air, can cause eye and respiratory irritation, headaches, dizziness, nausea and drowsiness, especially with prolonged exposure.
A chemical risk that worries
According to The Dauphiné Libéréthe leak would be due to faulty equipment. Around 10 a.m., around fifty firefighters were dispatched to the site, including a team specializing in chemical and biological risks.
Fortunately, none of the twenty employees showed symptoms requiring hospitalization. The leak was quickly sealed by the operator, and firefighters carried out checks to ensure that the product had dissipated.
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