Firefighters in full hazmat protective gear have spent much of the day tackling a chemical spill at a feedlot southwest of Chinchilla.
They isolated a truck and established a 100 metre exclusion zone at the Stanbroke Beef’s Bottle Tree Feedlot after staff found a small amount of aluminium phosphide spilt in the rear of a truck – a second contamination site was also found at the front of the Greenswamp Road property.
The chemical is a common pesticide and firefighters used water to dilute the spill.
Paramedics took the truck driver, aged in his 40s, to the Chinchilla hospital after he suffered breathing complications.
Greenswamp Road was closed to traffic for several hours.
