Occupational Risk

Emergency Workers' Health Threatened by Methamphetamine Labs

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, December 10th, 2000

Chemicals used to make methamphetamine caused fumes, fires, and explosions that injured dozens of police and emergency workers dispatched to illegal drug labs in the late 1990s, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Health departments in 14 states reported 79 police officers, firefighters, and medical technicians were injured between 1996 and 1999, the CDC said.

"With these meth labs, essentially each one is like a mini toxic waste site," said Kevin Horton, a CDC epidemiologist. "These people manufacturing the labs, they're not the most educated in terms of what these chemicals can do. Before you know it, there's a...

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