Monday, July 27, 2015

Hazmat situation at A & W Maintenance in Middleboro, Massachusetts after employee mixed incompatible chemicals




 JULY 25, 2015

MIDDLEBORO, Mass. (WHDH) - 

Residents in a Middleboro neighborhood have been given the all-clear and are allowed to leave their homes following a chemical scare at a nearby building housing A&W Maintenance an industrial coating and paint supplies company, Thursday night. 

A worker mixing four chemicals triggered a hazardous materials response. 

As a result, nearby residents were told to turn off their air conditioners and stay in their homes. 

A large plume of chemicals spread inside the A & W Maintenance building on Pine Street after the worker mixed the chemicals at around 2 p.m.

When the owner's son returned to the building at 7 p.m. he found the plume.