Around 300 workers were about to start maintenance work shortly after 8pm when they had to rush out of the plant after smelling the gas, believed to be ammonia.
Eight of the workers were sent to Dungun Hospital while 16 others received treatment at the Paka clinic.
One worker, Wan Mohd Yuzairi Wan Ismail, 28, was transferred to the Sultanah Nur Zahirah Hospital in Kuala Terengganu.
Five others, Muhamad Sardjuni Abdullah, 48, Mohd Firdaus Mohd Ibrahim, 23, Mohd Zawawi Lokman, 27, Mohd Saiful Rizal Saidin, 25, and Wan Mohd Shapawi Wan Ibrahim, 36, were warded. Two received outpatient treatment at the hospital here.
The Petronas East Coast Regional office issued a statement yesterday, saying the suspected ammonia leak was not caused by any of its plants in the petroleum industry complex.
The company said it was believed to have come from an external plant not related to Petronas.
As of noon yesterday, all but one of the workers had been discharged.
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