Three workers die in Vietnam fish sauce vat
September 22nd, 2009 - 12:59 am ICT by IANSHanoi, Sep 21 (DPA) Three workers at a fish sauce factory suffocated when they entered a fermenting vat and inhaled a toxic gas, Vietnamese press reported Monday.
The newspaper Nong Nghiep (Agriculture) reported that Bui Dinh Tuan, 36, had climbed into a fish sauce vat to repair a pipe Saturday morning at the factory where he worked in the coastal town of Cam Ranh.
When Tuan passed out, two co-workers, identified as Nguyen Huu Tai and Tran Thin, attempted to rescue him, but were overcome by fumes as well.
The newspaper said four workers at a different fish sauce factory in Cam Ranh had died of methane inhalation in a similar accident in 2000.
Fish sauce, or “nuoc mam,” made of crushed and fermented fish, is a widely used condiment in Vietnamese cuisine.
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