[jacquesm]

By the time you can smell it from a leaking tank depending on the speed of the spill you may already be inviting lung damage, if it overwhelms you you're as good as dead. With some regularity farmers here are overcome by ammonia that has pooled in manure storage pools.

This article starts up with 'three dead per year through fertilizer vapors, one breath and you are gone'.

https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/nederland/artikel/5022231/no...

[ncmncm]

Three from a population of how many? Compared to how many in some other possible world?

As long as people are being killed in numbers many orders of magnitude greater, just so sugar sellers will have good quarterly profits, it will be hard to count those.

[jacquesm]

That's now how it works though. If you lump all of the preventable deaths in a profession together it starts to add up, and NL is efficient enough that three people in a population of 10K farmers, a much smaller fraction of which is into animals is high enough to be noticed. Farming is a dangerous profession (lots of open rotating machinery) and we value life enough that doing something about things like this (workplace accidents) is strongly culturally ingrained.

It's also an entirely different domain from the 'sugar sellers'.