Employees of Egg Factory Trapped When Safety Valve Blows Out of Refrigerator (P)EADLY ammonia fumes leaking out of a refrigerator plant on the ground floor of the China Egg Producing Ca., Whangpoo Road, on the morning of May 19 trapped terrified employees in the two upper stories of the building, and resulted in no less than 98 injuries, 'A rescue van, police van, several ambulances, and fire engines, sped to the factory with their bells and sirens clearing a speedy path through the rush hour traffic, and spent well over an hour filling ambulance after ambulance with those overcome by the dangerous fumes.
A telephone call was received at the Central Fire Station at 11.42 stating that there was a very bad leakage of ammonia at the China Egg Producing Company, 229
Whangpoo Road.
Tu response, a rescue van was sent out from Central Station. Three minutes afterwards, an urgent call for an ambulance was received: from the factory, and two vehicles were sent out from Hongkew Station. 'The officer in charge of the rescue squad, on arrival at the factory, found the Main entrance in Whangpoo oad {ull of ammonia fumes, and, suspecting that fire might result, sent back a call for a fire engine. Around the main' entrance were standing, crowd of people suffering from the Severe "effects of ammonia fumies, and other injuries, The officer in charge of the rescue van thereupon Summoned four more ambulances, and Central, Sinza, Yangtszepoo and Bubbling Well Road stations immediately responded with one ambulance each,
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