A building near the Georgia Tech campus was evacuated Thursday morning following a chemical spill inside a laboratory, officials said.
The incident occurred shortly before noon at Technology Enterprise Park off North Avenue in Midtown, Georgia Tech police said in a tweet. A school spokesman said the spill occurred on the fourth floor of the building.
“A waste accident prompted some Georgia Tech staff members to be evacuated from a building adjacent to campus today,” school spokesman Steven Norris said. “The accident happened on the fourth floor and Georgia Tech leases space on the first floor of the building.”
Atlanta fire crews were called in to assist and two people were taken to a hospital as a precaution, fire spokesman Sgt. Cortez Stafford told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
“There was an exposure to a chemical inside one of the labs,” he said, though it wasn’t immediately which chemical spilled.
Norris confirmed that no Georgia Tech students or staff members were involved in the actual spill. He said the building has since reopened and there is no longer a threat.
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