Blast turns drink machine into chemical weapon.

Blast turns drink machine into chemical weapon.: “United States Homeland Security officials were notified after an exploding vending machine turned the coolant freon into phosgene, a poisonous gas used as a chemical weapon in World War I.

The explosion forced the evacuation of 10 people from a Texas hospital.

A food service employee was working on the refrigerated soft drink machine at the Park Place Medical Centre in Port Arthur, Texas, when a small explosion and fire occurred inside it, Port Arthur Fire Marshal Mark Mulliner said.”