Indian chemist dies after methanol inhalation incident

A bottle of methanol with hazard symbols warning it is flammable, toxic and health hazard on its label in a lab.

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Preliminary investigation highlights lack of protective equipment

42-year-old senior chemist M Poli Naidu died in hospital on 8 September, after inhaling methanol and another compound which leaked from a chemical centrifuge tank on 5 September at a Deccan Remedies plant near Visakhapatnam in southern India.