Suspected Hazardous Material Leak at Intel Plant Days After Fatal Accident
Translated & summarized from Calcalist by baba
A suspected hazardous material leak occurred at Intel's Kiryat Gat plant on Monday, less than a week after a fatal nitrogen tank explosion killed two workers. Employees were told to shelter in place as emergency services responded to contain the incident within the factory, reporting no danger to the public. The previous accident involved a tank of nitrogen trifluoride and resulted in two fatalities and one serious injury.
The story in 5 lines · by baba
- A suspected hazardous material leak was reported at Intel's Kiryat Gat plant on Monday.
- The incident occurred less than a week after a fatal nitrogen tank explosion at the same facility.
- Two Intel employees were killed in the previous week's explosion.
- Employees were instructed to shelter in place during the suspected leak.
- Emergency services confirmed the leak is contained within the plant and poses no risk to residents.
Less than a week after a fatal nitrogen tank explosion at Intel's Kiryat Gat plant killed two employees, a suspected hazardous material leak was reported at the same location on Monday. Employees reported being instructed to shelter in place within the building.
Fire and Rescue Services confirmed they received a report of a hazardous material leak at the Intel facility. Firefighting teams from Ashkelon, along with specialized hazardous materials units, were dispatched to the scene. The teams are currently monitoring the area, working to stabilize the situation, and collecting samples of the substance. The incident is contained within the factory grounds, and authorities stated there is no danger to nearby residents. No injuries were reported in this latest incident.
The previous week's explosion, which killed employees Ilya Chechulin, 49, and Yakir Koshvili, 35, also injured a third worker in his twenties who remains in serious condition, sedated and on a ventilator at Soroka Hospital's intensive care unit. Fire and Rescue services indicated that the earlier disaster was likely caused by a technical failure, specifically the "explosion" of the neck of a tank containing eight tons of nitrogen trifluoride (NF₃). The cause of that incident, whether due to wear and tear or if it could have been prevented, remains unclear.
Paramedics Yuval Elias and Muad Alamour, who responded to the previous incident, described it as severe, with three workers suffering severe burns. Two were initially without pulse or respiration, and life-saving resuscitation efforts were performed before they were evacuated to the hospital in critical condition.
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