Several Microsoft employees working in a building at Redmond campus, started feeling unwell suddenly yesterday. According to TV station K5, the event is believed to be due to a carbon monoxide leak.
K5 has revealed that firefighters and ambulances arriving at the Redmond campus found 5 people suffering from severe headaches and stomach problems. Although the cause of the problem was not identified from the outset, services believe it was from a carbon monoxide leak in local equipment.
Firefighters used CO (carbon monoxide) detectors to scan Microsoft's buildings, and indeed, a leak was detected in defective kitchen equipment.
Fortunately, no one was in serious danger, but the building managers were starting to controln the heating installations, the ventilation units, as well as the kitchen equipment, in order to avoid similar situations in the future.
If you are wondering how dangerous carbon monoxide can be, the answer is very simple: it can kill you.
The official website of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which reports from the US Department of Health and Human Services, warns that carbon monoxide poisoning can often be confused with a typical flu, more or less because it has the same symptoms as a headache. dizziness, weakness, upset stomach, vomiting, and chest pain.
"Everyone is at risk of CO poisoning. Infants, the elderly, people with chronic heart disease, anemia, or respiratory problems are more vulnerable to CO. "Every year, more than 400 Americans die from CO poisoning, more than 20.000 visit hospital emergency departments and more than 4.000 are hospitalized," the ministry said.
