Fatal poisoning of four workers in a farm: Distribution of hydrogen sulfide and thiosulfate in 10 different biological matrices

• Published in: Forensic science international Vol. 316; p. 110525
• Main Authors: Moretti, Matteo, Ballardini, Marco, Siodambro, Chiara, Tronconi, Livio, Osculati, Antonio Marco Maria, Freni, Francesca, Vignali, Claudia, Morini, Luca
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ireland Elsevier B.V 01.11.2020; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Adipose Tissue - chemistry; Adult; Air Pollutants - poisoning; Alkylation; Animals; Autopsies; Bile; Bile - chemistry; Biological properties; Biological samples; Blood; Brain; Brain Chemistry; breathing; Case reports; Chloride; consciousness; Dairy farming; Dairy farms; Death; Distribution; Edema; Enzymes; Farmers; farms; Fatalities; Femur; Forensic sciences; Gas chromatography; Gases; Humans; Hydrogen; Hydrogen sulfide; Hydrogen Sulfide - poisoning; Inhalation; Intoxication; Iodine; Lagoons; Liver; Liver - chemistry; Lung - chemistry; Lungs; Male; Manure; Manures; Mass spectrometry; Mass spectroscopy; Metabolism; Middle Aged; Mortality; Muscle, Skeletal - chemistry; Muscles; Occupational Exposure - adverse effects; Poisoning; Potassium; Respiration; Sodium; Spleen; Spleen - chemistry; Sulfides - analysis; Thiosulfate; Thiosulfates; Thiosulfates - analysis; urine; United States > US; Italy; Hydrogen sulfide; Intoxication; Thiosulfate; Distribution

•We report an accidental poisoning by hydrogen sulfide involving 4 farmers.•Sulfide and thiosulfate were evaluated in 10 different biological matrices.•We discuss the not homogeneous toxicological values detected in samples.•Toxicological analyses contributed to understand the sequence of the events...