{"id":669427,"date":"2026-05-14T01:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T01:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/669427\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T01:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T01:49:10","slug":"jbs-dinmore-nearly-900-workers-evacuated-five-hospitalised-after-chemical-spill-at-queensland-abattoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/669427\/","title":{"rendered":"JBS Dinmore: Nearly 900 workers evacuated, five hospitalised after chemical spill at Queensland abattoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>N\ufeffearly 900 workers have been evacuated and five have been hospitalised after an &#8220;industrial-size&#8221; chemical spill at an abattoir west of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/brisbane\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Brisbane\">Brisbane<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to JBS Dinmore on Lock Way in Riverview, Ipswich about 12.35am today following an ammonia leak.<\/p>\n<p>Around 892 people were evacuated from the building, and 17 workers were assessed for respiratory symptoms<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/7dc6a1be-63f4-4aa2-b9d5-05fe0b67c40b.png\"   alt=\"JBS Dinmore in Riverview\"\/>The JBS Dinmore meat processing plant in Riverview. (Google Maps)<\/p>\n<p>Five people have been taken to hospital, where they remain in a stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews stayed on the scene for nearly seven hours to assess and neutralise the spill zone.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Queensland Fire Department described the ammonia leak as &#8220;industria-sized&#8221; and said \ufeffit appears the spill originated from a faulty pipe.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>JBS Dinmore is the largest meat processing plant in the southern hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p>The facility in Riverview has been in operation for 40 years and accounts for around 10 per cent of Australia&#8217;s total beef processing capacity.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"N\ufeffearly 900 workers have been evacuated and five have been hospitalised after an &#8220;industrial-size&#8221; chemical spill at an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-669427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}