SANFORD — Officials say a small chemical spill has been cleaned up at a plastic sheet manufacturing plant in Sanford.
Fire Lt. Eric Neubert said officials were called at about 8:30 a.m. today to the Cyro Industries plant on Main Street.
Neubert said an employee was accidentally sprayed with a chemical known as methyl methacrylate monomer when it spilled from a tanker truck that was being unloaded. In all, about 20 gallons of the chemical spilled.
By the time an emergency response teams arrived, the worker was taking a shower to clean off. Neubert said the employee, whose name is not being released, was taken to Goodall Hospital as a precaution.
Officials say Cyro employees cleaned up the spill.
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