Crime & Safety

Gwinnett Medical Workers Decontaminated After Acid Spill

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., March 26

According to a news release from Gwinnett Medical Center on Tuesday (March 26), 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 in Lawrenceville. 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.

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