(Source: Wed, Mar 04, 2009The Straits Times)
A FOURTH worker has died of his injuries from a nitric acid spill which occurred last Friday at a factory in Tuas.
Mr Arumugam Mahadevan, 20, suffered about 70 per cent burns to his body and was in critical condition when he was taken to the Singapore General Hospital (SGH). He was in the burns unit for about four days before he finally succumbed to his injuries on Monday night.
The death toll from the spill at Chemic Industries makes it one of the worst industrial accidents in recent years. Prior to last week's incident, a flash fire that killed seven people on the Portuguese-registered oil tanker Almudaina on May 29, 2004 was probably the worst accident to have occurred.
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