Spilled Floor Cleaner Sends Cobb Workers to Hospital

Over a dozen recycling plant workers were sent to Kennestone Hospital after they complained of irritated skin or throats following a small chemical spill at a county recycling facility on Thursday.

Cobb County Fire Department spokesman Dan Dupree tells Patch that 16 workers at Rock-Tenn Recycling on County Services Parkway in Marietta were sickened by fumes caused when an almost-empty drum of floor cleaner spilled and reacted with unknown fluids in household garbage.

All of the 16 workers who reported symptoms were decontaminated, and 13 were taken to the hospital as a precaution, Dupree said.

The situation was mostly resolved as of 3 p.m., Dupree said.