Employees Of Hixson Firm Checked Out At Hospital After Chemical Exposure

  • Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Workers at a Hixson firm began complaining of exposure to chemicals on Wednesday morning and 24 were eventually taken to the hospital to be checked out.

A Haz-Mat team was sent to Southern Filter Media, which is on Kanasita Drive near Greenway Farm.

The site was cleared around noon.

The exposure was from fumes from a plant manufacturing process, it was stated. The company makes filter bags.

Several employees felt more sick than others from the fumes, it was stated.

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