Incident at work today...
For those of you who don't know about chlorine, it's extreemly deadly. Cl2 is described as the following effects on human beings:
"Chlorine exposure occurs through inhalation, or skin or eye contact. Exposure can cause burning of eyes, nose, and mouth; lacrimation and rhinorrhea; coughing, sneezing, choking, and substernal pain; nausea and vomiting; headaches and dizziness; syncope; fatal pulmonary edema; pneumonia; conjunctivitis; keratitis; pharyngitis; burning chest pain; dyspnea; hemoptysis; hypoxemia; dermatitis; and skin blisters.
When inhaled in high concentrations, chlorine causes emphysema and damage to the pulmonary blood vessels. Chronic exposure can cause corrosion of the teeth. Cardiac arrest may occur secondary to hypoxia.
Inhalation of small amounts of chlorine causes few or no symptoms. In larger amounts, it is a powerful irritant to the mucous membranes of the eyes, nose, and throat.
Exposures of 1-3 ppm can cause mild mucous membrane irritation; 5-15 ppm, moderate irritation of upper respiratory tract; 30 ppm, immediate chest pain, vomiting, dyspnea, and cough; 40-60 ppm, toxic pneumonitis and pulmonary edema; 430 ppm, lethal over 30 minutes; and 1,000 ppm, death within a few minutes. Death is possible from asphyxia, shock, reflex spasm in the larynx, or massive pulmonary edema."
Upon doing a little math after my chlorine exposure incident, I figured out that I must have been exposed to around 700ppm of Cl2, enough to kill an 8 year old in less than a minute.
My eyes burned, I have this rash on the backside of my arms where moisture was found, and my chest is killing me. Technically, if I would have waited about 2 minutes longer down there I would be dead.
Like soldiers in WWI dead. Dead.
I'm going to bed people, I have to get up at 6:00 again.... shiiiiiiiii
"Chlorine exposure occurs through inhalation, or skin or eye contact. Exposure can cause burning of eyes, nose, and mouth; lacrimation and rhinorrhea; coughing, sneezing, choking, and substernal pain; nausea and vomiting; headaches and dizziness; syncope; fatal pulmonary edema; pneumonia; conjunctivitis; keratitis; pharyngitis; burning chest pain; dyspnea; hemoptysis; hypoxemia; dermatitis; and skin blisters.
When inhaled in high concentrations, chlorine causes emphysema and damage to the pulmonary blood vessels. Chronic exposure can cause corrosion of the teeth. Cardiac arrest may occur secondary to hypoxia.
Inhalation of small amounts of chlorine causes few or no symptoms. In larger amounts, it is a powerful irritant to the mucous membranes of the eyes, nose, and throat.
Exposures of 1-3 ppm can cause mild mucous membrane irritation; 5-15 ppm, moderate irritation of upper respiratory tract; 30 ppm, immediate chest pain, vomiting, dyspnea, and cough; 40-60 ppm, toxic pneumonitis and pulmonary edema; 430 ppm, lethal over 30 minutes; and 1,000 ppm, death within a few minutes. Death is possible from asphyxia, shock, reflex spasm in the larynx, or massive pulmonary edema."
Upon doing a little math after my chlorine exposure incident, I figured out that I must have been exposed to around 700ppm of Cl2, enough to kill an 8 year old in less than a minute.
My eyes burned, I have this rash on the backside of my arms where moisture was found, and my chest is killing me. Technically, if I would have waited about 2 minutes longer down there I would be dead.
Like soldiers in WWI dead. Dead.
I'm going to bed people, I have to get up at 6:00 again.... shiiiiiiiii