Breathing in LPG

[Puddleduck]

Why would you have to be warned about not breathing extermination gas?

Because we didn't know it had been done until after my friend collapsed. No warnings about it at all and the van was parked in the service yard not at the main entry point.

 

[Speve]

I went down to our local garage today to fill up with diesel and LPG there was a chap messing around with the LPG pump trying to top up his car I went over to help he said he had never done this before and he had only just got the car? Unfortunately he had already got a frost burn on his hands quite bad?
I showed him how to fill up by doing it for him first advising him to wear a pair of gloves and telling him to get the burns looked at asap he was very grateful.
He had also said he had asked the attendants how to do it and neither of them knew how? I think probably we have more chance of a burn than a gassing

 

[Coolcats]

Just purchased some double sided sticky tape and some superglue, at the automated checkout it would not permit me to pay for the goods until I was age checked. I asked the assistant was it the superglue nope it was the double sided tape ! They can’t sell it to under 18’s

 

[Fragle]

It wouldn't be the lpg that directly caused the heart attack. It would have been the low oxygen level caused by displacement of the air by the propane.

Such events are very very rare and I would stop worrying about it.

Having returned to the world of work for 6 months seasonal work I now deliver bulk lpg on a daily basis. Until April.
You have to release gas (lpg) to determine when the tanks are at 85 %. Protection from splashing lpg liquid. Gloves glasses long sleeve cotton shirts. etc are all that’s required.
10 ish deliveries a day no mention of it being an issue or specific breathing apparatus required to stop you breathing the escaped gas and with health and safety the way it is they would supply it if it was an issue for us.

 

[gpat]

Yes, I understand about asphyxiation due to displacement of oxygen. I understand about flammability and explosion risk. But they are implying that there is a risk of triggering a heart attack with a lungful of butane or propane. That's something I didn't know about. Obviously very rare, or we motorhomers would be the first to know. But so are motorhome fires and carbon monoxide deaths, and we still take precautions against them. It's easy to avoid, I'm sure, if you know about it. But is it a real risk?

If you have a heart condition then any situation where oxygen levels become low is bad.

Even if your heart and lungs are strong there is risk of heart attack of oxygen levels becomes low.

What I am saying is its not due to butane or propane especially, its only due to the low oxygen level.

Not something that is likely to happen in a well ventilated motorhome. Explosion and fire is more likely to kill you.

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