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Update: Gwinnett Medical Employees Decontaminated After Acid Spill in Lawrenceville

Firefighters and a hazmat team were called to Duluth Highway where liquid hydrofluoric acid was reported to have leaked from a delivery box truck Tuesday afternoon.

Updated, 6:10 p.m.

According to a news release from Gwinnett Medical Center, a drum of hydrofluoric acid on an independent delivery truck, which was bound for a separate location, leaked onto supplies in the truck.

The tainted supplies were delivered to Gwinnett Medical Center’s off-site warehouse at Springfield Park, at 665 Duluth Highway. GMC employees noticed the unidentified substance and immediately alerted the fire department.

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Four Gwinnett Medical Employees are going through the decontamination process in the emergency department at the hospital.

The decontamination is a precautionary procedure, says the release.

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Fire and hazmat crews were called to the scene of an acid leak from a delivery box truck Tuesday (March 26) around 3:18 p.m. at 665 Duluth Highway in Lawrenceville.

The product that was leaking was liquid hydrofluoric acid, according to Gwinnett County Fire spokesman Lt. Colin S. Rhoden. Crews found a few people who were exposed to the liquid, so they were transported to Gwinnett Medical Center nearby.

The hazmat crew suited team members in level “A” suits to go into the truck and see whether the container inside was still leaking. Crews found a container leaned over with the product spilling out of it, so they mitigated the leak by righting the container.

Crews are still on the scene and are awaiting a clean-up company.


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