New incident report
Incident Report Number: 2018-1592
Registrant Reference Number: SC2079017
Registrant Name (Full Legal Name no abbreviations): Dow AgroSciences Canada Inc.
Address: 2400, 215-2nd Street SW
City: Calgary
Prov / State: AB
Country: Canada
Postal Code: T2P 1M4
Human
Country: CANADA
Prov / State: SASKATCHEWAN
Unknown
PMRA Registration No. 14879 PMRA Submission No. EPA Registration No.
Product Name: Lorsban 4E (Canada)
Yes
Unknown
Site: Agricultural-Outdoor/Agricole-extérieur
Préciser le type: Unknown
Unknown
Data Subject
Sex: Female
Age: >19 <=64 yrs / >19 <=64 ans
System
Unknown / Inconnu
Yes
No
Unknown
Non-occupational
What was the activity? Please refer to field 13 on Subform II or field 17 of subform III for a detailed description regarding the activity
Drift from the application site
Unknown
Respiratory
>3 days <=1 wk / >3 jours <=1 sem
>30 min <=2 hrs / >30 min <=2 h
Caller's wife was allegedly exposed to the product on 7/19/2017 when a crop duster plane was going overhead dripping product on the ground. She was outside for approx. one minute and could smell the product. Two hours later she developed chest tightness, difficulty breathing, worsening of an existing headache, throat irritation, neck pain, and body aches. She took Advil for her symptoms, but it did not help and symptoms persisted. On7/26/2017 caller's wife was seen by her primary doctor. An unspecified blood test was performed which did not reveal anything abnormal. No further tests or treatments were performed. Caller states that the treating doctor did not seem overly concerned with the potential exposure or with the patients symptoms. His wife has had somewhat of an intermediate cough, but it is improving. He notes that she was working in their garden earlier today and seems to be feeling better. The patient does not have any further medical follow-up appointments scheduled.
Minor
Direct exposure to this herbicide is not evident in this incident. The delayed onset of the patient symptoms hours after application is not suggestive of toxicity nor would they be expected symptoms should contact to airborne spray have occurred. Usually complications such as immediate onset of acute eye, skin and respiratory irritation may be seen following exposure to spray drift but these symptoms were not reported in this incident. The information contained in this report is based on self-reported statements provided to the registrant during telephone interview(s). These self-reported descriptions of an incident have not been independently verified to be factually correct or complete descriptions of the incident. For that reason, information contained in this report does not and can not form the basis for a determination of whether the reported clinical effects are causally related to exposure to the product identified in the telephone interviews.