New incident report
Incident Report Number: 2009-1368
Registrant Reference Number: x
Registrant Name (Full Legal Name no abbreviations): x
Address: x
City: x
Prov / State: x
Country: x
Postal Code: X
Human
Country: CANADA
Prov / State: SASKATCHEWAN
PMRA Registration No. 24945 PMRA Submission No. EPA Registration No.
Product Name: PRO PROFESSIONAL DURSBAN TURF INSECTICIDE
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Data Subject
Sex: Female
Age: >19 <=64 yrs / >19 <=64 ans
System
Unknown / Inconnu
Unknown
Unknown
Non-occupational
Unknown
Unknown
Skin
Eye
Respiratory
Unknown / Inconnu
>1 wk <=1 mo / > 1 sem < = 1 mois
I have extended exposure - severe reaction and still getting ill from the vapors from my belonging here in (city). I am talking Benadryl regularly. Spent $1000 trying to clean the vent system in my 2007 Ford Fusion because I couldn't drive it without a respirator. I had to give it back & pay $200 deductible & $350 for a rented car. I still start salivating, my kidneys hurt, my heart pounds, sometimes my fingers & toes tingle. The worst exposure was Oct.6 -20/08 but this is now in the runoff & through all the vents of cars in (City). This Dursban gets worse when it rains. Its (msds) mixed with petroleum distillate, toluene & xylene is almost the sames as nerve gas. I was never properly treated because the only doctor in (City) who tests for cholinisteraese of city employees wouldn't call back. Sprayed elm tree 20 ' from house and basement suite window was 30 ' from tree on Oct 06/08... very ill by oct.20/08. Disoriented, salivating, kidney hurt, heart pounding, liver heart, tingling in fingers & toes, pupils dilating, sleepy managed to drive to (city) beach where 2 friends came and got me. They could smell the pesticide when they opened the car door. Dow Chemical didn't call back on 24hr emergency line. Not one doctor or the emergency room had any idea how to treat an organophosphate poisoning including the (City) General Hospital so I was not treated with atropine or the Poison Control Centre. The msds doesn't help if no one knows what to do with the poisoining I was referred to an allergist who told me I needed a toxicologist but no one could find one in (city) or (city). The federal person who was investigating whether they used the pesticide properly, doesn't work there as of last week & the man who took his place can't access his files. The msds for this product clearly states not to spray near homes or in schoolyards - that it is toxic to wildlife, aquatic life, birds & bees. One of the provincial men who signs the water permit for the city every year refused to sign this - he said that these permits hadn't even been used for years. Under notebook.com under organo - phosphate poisonings which includes nerve gas they give the US military 3 vials (2mg each) of atropine to carry with them. The msds for Dursban that says phone any doctor or poison control centre was not poisoned in (city) - not one person had any idea what to do.