New incident report
Incident Report Number: 2018-2091
Registrant Reference Number: DASLLC2238609
Registrant Name (Full Legal Name no abbreviations): Dow AgroSciences Canada Inc.
Address: 215-2nd Street SW, Suite 2400
City: Calgary
Prov / State: AB
Country: Canada
Postal Code: T2P 1M4
Human
Country: UNITED STATES
Prov / State: LOUISIANA
Unknown
PMRA Registration No. PMRA Submission No. EPA Registration No. 62719-220
Product Name: Hatchet Insecticide
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Other
Sex: Male
Age: Unknown / Inconnu
System
Persisted until death
No
Unknown
Unknown
Non-occupational
Other
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown / Inconnu
Unknown / Inconnu
5/22/2018 Caller is an investigator with the Louisiana Forensic Center. Caller reports that one person has died and two other people are in intensive care after possible exposure to the product in a trailer home. The men were disoriented and covered in diarrhea when they were found. 5/23/2018 The pathologists' office summarizes that there were five victims in a trailer potentially exposed to the product. The product container was found in the laundry room of the trailer house, and was sealed with a plastic screw top. Responding emergency medical services noted a noxious smell outside and inside the trailer. The first victim is deceased, and an autopsy will be performed today. Two other victims are in the intensive care unit of a local hospital. The other two victims were noted to have disorientation and emesis, but were released from the hospital.
Death
*********** 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. The product use history is extremely vague and lacks any description of a known or defined point of direct exposure to this product. Without more information it would be very difficult to determine a relationship between any possible exposure to the product and the events reported.
Other
Sex: Male
Age: Unknown / Inconnu
System
Unknown / Inconnu
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Non-occupational
Other
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown / Inconnu
Unknown / Inconnu
5/22/2018 Caller is an investigator with the Louisiana Forensic Center. Caller reports that one person has died and two other people are in intensive care after possible exposure to the product in a trailer home. The men were disoriented and covered in diarrhea when they were found. 5/23/2018 The pathologists' office summarizes that there were five victims in a trailer potentially exposed to the product. The product container was found in the laundry room of the trailer house, and was sealed with a plastic screw top. Responding emergency medical services noted a noxious smell outside and inside the trailer. The first victim is deceased, and an autopsy will be performed today. Two other victims are in the intensive care unit of a local hospital. The other two victims were noted to have disorientation and emesis, but were released from the hospital.
Moderate
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. The product use history is extremely vague and lacks any description of a known or defined point of direct exposure to this product. Without more information it would be very difficult to determine a relationship between any possible exposure to the product and the events reported.
Other
Sex: Male
Age: Unknown / Inconnu
System
Unknown / Inconnu
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Non-occupational
Other
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown / Inconnu
Unknown / Inconnu
5/22/2018 Caller is an investigator with the Louisiana Forensic Center. Caller reports that one person has died and two other people are in intensive care after possible exposure to the product in a trailer home. The men were disoriented and covered in diarrhea when they were found. 5/23/2018 The pathologists' office summarizes that there were five victims in a trailer potentially exposed to the product. The product container was found in the laundry room of the trailer house, and was sealed with a plastic screw top. Responding emergency medical services noted a noxious smell outside and inside the trailer. The first victim is deceased, and an autopsy will be performed today. Two other victims are in the intensive care unit of a local hospital. The other two victims were noted to have disorientation and emesis, but were released from the hospital.
Moderate
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. The product use history is extremely vague and lacks any description of a known or defined point of direct exposure to this product. Without more information it would be very difficult to determine a relationship between any possible exposure to the product and the events reported.
Other
Sex: Unknown
Age: Unknown / Inconnu
System
Unknown / Inconnu
Yes
No
Unknown
Non-occupational
Other
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown / Inconnu
Unknown / Inconnu
5/22/2018 Caller is an investigator with the Louisiana Forensic Center. Caller reports that one person has died and two other people are in intensive care after possible exposure to the product in a trailer home. The men were disoriented and covered in diarrhea when they were found. 5/23/2018 The pathologists' office summarizes that there were five victims in a trailer potentially exposed to the product. The product container was found in the laundry room of the trailer house, and was sealed with a plastic screw top. Responding emergency medical services noted a noxious smell outside and inside the trailer. The first victim is deceased, and an autopsy will be performed today. Two other victims are in the intensive care unit of a local hospital. The other two victims were noted to have disorientation and emesis, but were released from the hospital.
Moderate
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. The product use history is extremely vague and lacks any description of a known or defined point of direct exposure to this product. Without more information it would be very difficult to determine a relationship between any possible exposure to the product and the events reported.
Other
Sex: Unknown
Age: Unknown / Inconnu
System
Unknown / Inconnu
Yes
No
Unknown
Non-occupational
Other
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown / Inconnu
Unknown / Inconnu
5/22/2018 Caller is an investigator with the Louisiana Forensic Center. Caller reports that one person has died and two other people are in intensive care after possible exposure to the product in a trailer home. The men were disoriented and covered in diarrhea when they were found. 5/23/2018 The pathologists' office summarizes that there were five victims in a trailer potentially exposed to the product. The product container was found in the laundry room of the trailer house, and was sealed with a plastic screw top. Responding emergency medical services noted a noxious smell outside and inside the trailer. The first victim is deceased, and an autopsy will be performed today. Two other victims are in the intensive care unit of a local hospital. The other two victims were noted to have disorientation and emesis, but were released from the hospital.
Moderate
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. The product use history is extremely vague and lacks any description of a known or defined point of direct exposure to this product. Without more information it would be very difficult to determine a relationship between any possible exposure to the product and the events reported.