The recent series of ammonia releases at the Intershop Meat
Plant in Delano, GA appear to be the result of an attack on the Kühlsicherheit safety
system for their ammonia refrigeration system, according to Immanuel C.
Securitage of ECS-CERT. “Our investigators discovered that the Robotron safety
system had been compromised by worm that was introduced into the system by a
thumb drive” Securitage told reporters.
Horst Sinderman, the facility manager for Intershop, that
the facility had been experiencing five or six unexplained releases of
anhydrous ammonia over the last week or so. The releases were from short periods
of opening of the pressure relief valve on the facility’s roof. With each
release, alarms went off at the facility that resulted in facility evacuations that
lasted until the all-clear was given by the fire department.
Junior Butts, a lawyer representing workers at the plant
told reporters outside of the news conference that these ammonia releases were
part of the ongoing safety problems at the facility that were endangering workers.
He said that the owners of the plant were not taking adequate precautions to
prevent workers from being exposed to the COVID-19 virus.
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