{"id":57487,"date":"2026-10-14T08:45:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T06:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/three-killed-in-a-chemical-incident-on-a-farm-north-of-herolds-bay\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T08:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T06:45:06","slug":"three-killed-in-a-chemical-incident-on-a-farm-north-of-herolds-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/three-killed-in-a-chemical-incident-on-a-farm-north-of-herolds-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Three killed in a chemical incident on a farm north of Herold's Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this afternoon, the Garden Route District Municipality (GRDM) Firefighters assisted the George Municipality with efforts to contain a chemical incident on a farm north of Herold's Bay. Sadly, three people passed away at the incident, while a further twelve persons are being treated for injuries – as reported earlier by the South African Police Services.<\/p>\n

GRDM Executive Mayor, Marais Kruger said: "We extend our deepest condolences to the families, friends and colleagues of the three people who tragically lost their lives in the chemical-related incident".<\/p>\n

"Our thoughts are also with the twelve people who sustained injuries and are receiving medical treatment, as well as everyone affected by this tragic event," he shared.<\/p>\n

According to those first on scene, farm workers were reportedly cleaning a large storage tank containing a mixture of chemicals, including phosphoric acid when the accident happened. Several workers who attempted to assist those first…<\/p>\n

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Earlier this afternoon, the Garden Route District Municipality (GRDM) Firefighters assisted the George Municipality with efforts to contain a chemical incident on a farm north of Herold's Bay. Sadly, three people passed away at the incident, while a further twelve persons are being treated for injuries – as reported earlier by the South African Police […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/847116918_1137946991916552_6284757142065789340_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/847116918_1137946991916552_6284757142065789340_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}