One sickened by McDonald's fumes dies (10 taken to hospital)

[RamboLiberal]

Source: AJC

An 80-year-old woman has died after being sickened by fumes at a McDonald's restaurant in south Georgia.

Pooler Police Chief Mark Revenew says Anne Felton of Ponte Vedra, Fla., died early Thursday. She and her husband were customers at the restaurant. An autopsy will be conducted to determine her cause of death.

Felton was one of 10 taken to the hospital Wednesday after firefighters found two customers unconscious in the bathroom and others struggling to breathe.

Authorities suspect cleaning chemicals in the restroom are to blame, but the cause is still under investigation.



Read more: http://www.ajc.com/news/one-sickened-by-mcdonalds-1163401.html

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. I am almost willing to guess the chemical combo

But not quite enough info.

Goes without saying...DO NOT MIX THEM.

[Harmony Blue]

2. Yes chlorine and bleach is not a good combo to mix

especially with warm water. :(

[WheelWalker]

3. Bleach & ammonia?

Releasing chlorine gas?

[Kokonoe]

5. Do not mix bleach and ammonia. nt

[Harmony Blue]

10. Yeah that is even worse.

The fumes are very toxic.

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. Yup...low grade mustard gas

[dtexdem]

16. Do you want mustard gas on that burger?

Of course most of the people McDonalds kills die after some time eating those burgers.

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. Yup, but this was fully preventable

[Javaman]

32. Years ago I worked in a mall...

the Chinese food place threw out their "old" ammonia and bleach.

long story short, the mall was evacuated.

[PatrynXX]

23. think someone's been watching ghost whisperer

or a ghost knocked them over.. o_O

[uppityperson]

24. Most bleach is chlorine.

[obxhead]

25. Actually that combo is quite common.

In fact it is difficult to find bleach without chlorine.

It's chlorine and ammonia that is the toxic combo.

[DeSwiss]

4. Yep. I've seen it before too.

Workers cleaning restaurant floors with all that grease will often mix using a scouring powder cleaner like Ajax which has chlorine bleach in it. Then they add a little Bo' Peep Ammonia, and 'voila you have a perfect storm of ammonium chloride gas knocking everyone within 10 feet or so of it. Knocked out cold.

- Totally preventable. Poor management practices.

[WingDinger]

6. I have taken at least three to the hospital for that.

[WingDinger]

7. Wrong kind of mustard. Gas I mean.

[Rabblevox]

8. my first thought, bleach and ammonia combined by a worker without proper safety training. nt.

[wordpix]

22. did they die BEFORE or AFTER they ate?

[BOHICA12]

29. Been the victim twice of someone using Clorox ...

and not rinsing - pee away and you get Chlorine Gas.

Doesn't take much for an 80 year old to be overcome.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

9. I knew their food was bad for you, but really.

[shraby]

11. Dishwater detergent and bleach will do the same thing.

[kimmerspixelated]

12. Time to make green cleaners mandatory! n/t

[Harmony Blue]

15. You mean vinegar?

Well, not a bad idea, and it keeps the bugs away. :)

[Taverner]

19. I prefer the orange stuff

vinegar makes me sick

[MilesColtrane]

14. How much vinegar is in pickle brine?

Maybe one of those giant buckets spilled and somebody tried to clean it up with bleach.

[nadinbrzezinski]

18. In the bathroom?????

[brentspeak]

20. Could just as well have been the stuff they use to make Happy Meals

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20019427-10391704.html">Happy Meal Doesn't Decompose After 6 Months

[AndyTiedye]

21. Vanish® Meets Drano®?

[BigDemVoter]

26. Eeek-- could it have been fumes from the delicious food cooking?

[wordpix]

27. This article says the 80 y.o. who died was an "emergency worker"

I'm confused :crazy:

http://news.yahoo.com/one-dead-9-sick-fumes-mcdonalds-georgia-180528194.html

ATLANTA (Reuters) - One woman died and nine others were sickened after breathing toxic fumes in the bathroom of a McDonald's restaurant in south Georgia, authorities said on Thursday.

An 80-year-old woman from Florida died early on Thursday, hours after being overcome by fumes in the bathroom at a McDonald's restaurant in Pooler, Georgia, the city's Police Chief Mark Revenew said.

She was one of two women emergency workers found unconscious in the bathroom of the restaurant on Wednesday afternoon, Pooler Fire Chief Wade Simmons said....more

[enlightenment]

30. Poorly phrased sentence.

She was one of two women {that} emergency workers found unconscious in the bathroom of the restaurant on Wednesday afternoon,

[left on green only]

28. Could It Have Possibly Been Any Worse

Then living creatures having to be around me after I have desecrated my body by eating their food? Just sayin. :hi:

[dipsydoodle]

31. Maybe there were not enough pegs to go round

Silent and Deadly Scene - Mystery Men Movie (1999) - HD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9rBv4Dn3Bk&feature=relmfu