Breaking: Serious accident in Hungarian battery factory, 8 people hospitalised
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On Easter Sunday evening, several injured people were taken to hospital from the SK Battery battery factory in Komárom after hydrogen cyanide was released into the air.
Pungent smell in Komárom battery factory, 8 people hospitalised
Several people were taken ill and 8 hospitalised at the battery factory in Komárom, Telex reports. A pungent smell spread and several workers complained of headaches on Sunday evening at SK’s battery factory in Komárom. Workers were evacuated from the factory. According to the emergency services, the firefighters who checked the site found no hazardous substances in the air of the factory that exceeded the limit values.
On Monday morning, several independent sources told Telex that there was a malfunction at the battery factory on Sunday evening.
The NGO Kiállunk Ácsért wrote to Telex: “People are being taken away from the factory by ambulances without sirens, police and emergency services have been deployed, and workers have been evacuated to the parking lot in front of the factory. The air around the factory smells pungent, irritating to the eyes and throat.”
Such incidents are becoming more and more frequent
In a statement sent to Index, opposition party LMP said that “such incidents are becoming more and more frequent around battery manufacturing and processing plants”. In the wake of the accident on Sunday night, the party reiterated its position that “the government’s efforts to build more factories in Hungary that work with hazardous materials is a mistake”.
The LMP is writing to the government to ask “what really happened” and to press charges against an unknown perpetrator to find out whose negligence caused the latest accident at the battery factory.