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Toxic gas leak injures 3 at Samsung chip plant
HWASEONG — Highly poisonous hydrofluoric acid gas leaked at Samsung Electronics Co.’s main chip plant in this southern city on Thursday, injuring three workers, the company said. The incident comes roughly three months after up to 10 liters of diluted hydrofluoric acid, a colorless acute poison that can damage the lungs and bones and even [...]
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Samsung gas leak-briefing
HWASEONG — Samsung Electronics Co. on Monday held a briefing for local residents where it announced developments in the aftermath of a fatal gas leak and announced plans to beef up safety measures. The briefing, organized for local accidents, comes roughly two months after up to 10 liters of diluted hydrofluoric acid leaked at the [...]
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Samsung Electronics apologizes for hydrofluoric acid leakage
SEOUL, March 3 (Yonhap) — A senior official at Samsung Electronics Co. apologized on Sunday for problems caused by the hydrofluoric acid leakage at the company’s chip plant in late January, vowing to prevent the recurrence of similar accidents. Hydrofluoric acid, a colorless acute poison that can damage the lungs and bones and even affect [...]
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Evidence contradicts Samsung’s claim about hydrofluoric acid leak
Police confirm Samsung used blast fans to get rid of gas, contrary to earlier claim Samsung Electronics was using portable blast fans to force air out of its sealed semiconductor plant in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi province, at the time of a hydrofluoric acid leakage there last month that left one dead and four injured, police reported. [...]
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Hydrofluoric acid leaks from Samsung factory: police
SEOUL/HWASEONG, Feb. 15 (Yonhap) — Hydrofluoric acid was discharged from a Samsung Electronics Co. chip plant into the environment following a fatal leakage last month, police said Friday, in stark contrast to the company’s earlier announcement that the situation had been contained. Up to 10 liters of diluted hydrofluoric acid, a colorless acute poison that [...]
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Alert over South Korea toxic leaks
Government moves to tighten oversight after string of hydrogen fluoride accidents. Gumi, South Korea By mid-December, the chill winter winds had stripped South Korea’s trees bare. But around the city of Gumi, about 280 kilometres south of Seoul, blighted branches still bore a shroud of brown, withered leaves — reminders of the chemical accident that [...]
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Hydrofluoric acid leak kills one at Samsung chip plant
SUWON, South Korea, — Poisonous hydrofluoric acid gas leaked at the main plant of the world’s largest memory chipmaker Samsung Electronics Co., killing one worker and injuring four others, police said Monday. Up to 10 liters of hydrofluoric acid, an acute poison that can damage lungs and bones and affect the nervous system, leaked from [...]
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South Korea’s Silicon Valley declared ‘disaster zone’ after chemical leak
South Korea declared an area southeast of the capital Seoul a ‘special disaster’ zone after a toxic chemical leak in late September. Around 3,000 people sought medical aid after the incident, and many criticized the government for its slow response. The prime minister’s office said in a statement that “the government decided to designate the [...]
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S Korea: Residents of disaster zone demand compensation
The government belatedly declared a special disaster zone on Oct. 9 in the scene of a hydrofluoric acid leak last month in Gumi, North Gyeongsang province. The declaration comes 11 days after the Sept. 27 accident at a Hube Global factory in the 4th Gumi National Industrial Complex. … Public health groups like the Daegu/North [...]
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Gumi Designated as Gas Leak Disaster Zone
A blast at the factory of chemical maker Hube Global on September 27th killed five people and led to the leakage of EIGHT tons of hydrofluoric acid. The cause of the explosion is still under investigation but police believe it might have happened while acid was being transferred to a storage tank. Hydrofluoric acid is [...]
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