Man killed by tainted package
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An express delivery company in east China’s Shandong Province has had its business license revoked for causing a chemical leak which contaminated other packages, leaving one man dead and seven other people injured.
Liu Xingliang, a resident of Dongying City in Shandong, died on November 29. Earlier that day he had taken delivery of a parcel containing children’s shoes, Shandong’s news portal (www.dzwww.com) reported.
One day earlier, a package containing methyl fluoroacetate, a toxic chemical, had been sent from a chemical plant in Wuhan in the central Hubei Province to a pharmaceutical plant in Weifang City in Shandong, the report said, citing Chen Xiao, an official with the Shandong postal administration.
During transport, the package had broken and the chemical contaminated 154 packages that poisoned five delivery company workers and two other recipients in Shandong’s Shouguang and Jiaozhou cities.
The workers have been discharged from hospital while the two recipients are receiving treatment.
Methyl fluoroacetate is widely used in making drugs and medicines. It is irritating to the eyes, skin and respiratory system.
Liu became sick after opening the package.
Weifang Jieshuntong Express Company, the local arm of YTO Express in Weifang, was also fined 28,000 yuan (US$4,612) for negligence when receiving and sending the packages. Shandong YTO Express was ordered to rectify problems and ensure workers’ safety.
The report said YTO was not qualified to transport dangerous chemicals. A manager said methyl fluoroacetate was not on the list of dangerous chemicals and the company didn’t know it was toxic until the accident.
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