CASE REPORTS OF PHOSGENE POISONING

It has been estimated (although without substantiation) [1484] that some ten thousand workers were potentially at risk to occupational phosgene exposure during its manufacture or use in 1976. In addition, exposure to phosgene can result from the decomposition of various chlorinated organic materials as described in Section 3.3. Risks to the populace, as a result of catastrophic emissions, are described in Section 3.6. 

The observations on two thousand cases of exposure to war gases (186 of which were attributed to phosgene gassings) were reported shortly after the end of World War I. These studies, performed on the survivors of gas shell attacks, were limited only to clinical findings [1766]. In contrast, outside of war time, ten cases of phosgene gassings (including only one 

1932-1937 [2189], These latter figures should be compared with those reported for other 

SOME FATAL INCIDENTS RESULTING FROM PROBABLE PHOSGENE POISONINGS 

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