Plant workers go to hospital after inhaling fumes

Published 10:00 am Monday, February 22, 2016

FOLEY — Authorities say workers at a Foley company were taken to the hospital after inhaling fumes from a cleaning solution.

Foley Fire Chief Mark Pappenfus says the department got a call just before 10 p.m. Saturday that a number of employees at PouchTec Industries had inhaled a harmful cleaning substance. Pappenfus says “multiple” people were taken to St. Cloud Hospital. The St. Cloud Times reports the number of patients and condition reports were unavailable Sunday morning from the hospital.

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