{"id":114658,"date":"2025-09-02T16:48:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/114658\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T16:48:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:48:04","slug":"quebec-coroner-warns-of-dangers-to-farmers-from-manure-gases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/114658\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec coroner warns of dangers to farmers from manure gases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">MONTREAL \u2014 A Quebec coroner is urging the province&#8217;s professional farmers association to increase efforts to educate its members on the dangers of slurry pits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Coroner Nancy Bouchard made the recommendation in reports on the deaths of a couple east of Montreal killed from asphyxiation due to exposure to hydrogen sulphide inside a manure pit at their farm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Bouchard says that on Oct. 4, 2024, a 44-year-old farmer descended a ladder into a slurry pit on his farm in Ste-Christine, Que., probably to conduct repairs because he had tools with him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The coroner says the man&#8217;s 40-year-old partner found him unconscious in the pit and tried to rescue him, but lost consciousness on the ladder and fell backward onto his body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The man was declared dead at the scene, and the woman died in hospital 18 days later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Bouchard says manure pits can contain hydrogen sulphide, carbon dioxide, methane, and ammonia, adding that those gases when combined with a lack of oxygen can cause fainting in seconds and death in minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 2, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2014 A Quebec coroner is urging the province&#8217;s professional farmers association to increase efforts to educate its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,64531,64527,64528,64526,64529,64530,66,64525],"class_list":["post-114658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-coroner","tag-farmers-association","tag-hydrogen-sulphide","tag-manure-pit","tag-manure-pits","tag-nancy-bouchard","tag-science","tag-slurry-pit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}