• The incident occurred around 9:45 a.m. at this high-threshold Seveso-classified industrial site.

  • The leak occurred while loading a truck with liquid ammonia.

  • The ammonia vapor cloud that formed caused fourteen injuries, including two serious ones, all working inside the site at the time of the accident.

The leaks were "in limited quantity" assures the prefecture, the balance sheet is however heavy.

Fourteen people were injured, two of them seriously, this Wednesday morning after an ammonia leak within the Yara company in Ambès, in the suburbs of Bordeaux.

The incident occurred around 9:45 am, within this site specializing in the production of fertilizers, classified Seveso high threshold.

“The leak occurred when loading a truck with liquid ammonia, indicates the prefecture.

Although the quantities of ammonia that leaked were limited in quantity, the ammonia vapor cloud that formed caused fourteen injuries, two of them serious, all working inside the site at the time of the incident. the accident.

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Employees confined as a precaution

An operator was evacuated by helicopter from the national gendarmerie to the CHU Pellegrin in Bordeaux, the thirteen other injured were transported by the ambulances of the firefighters of the Gironde to the emergency services of the Bordeaux conurbation.

The employees of the company as well as those of a neighboring company were confined as a precaution.

"The measurements taken around the site of the accident 30 minutes after it did not detect ammonia" assures the prefecture.

On-site investigations

About fifty firefighters from the Gironde rescue centers including teams specializing in technological risks, as well as the SAMU intervened.

The National Gendarmerie and the DREAL inspection of classified installations have made the first observations.

The mayor of Ambès was also present on site.

“Labour inspectors and classified installations will follow the investigations this afternoon to determine the sequence of events.

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