Four Hurt in High-Pressure Event at Baltimore Coca-Cola Plant
A high-pressure incident at a Coca-Coloa Bottling plant left four people hurt, one critically.
Baltimore firefighters were told there was an explosion involving equipment that handles carbon dioxide.
"It sounds like it was a high-pressure incident, so not so much an explosion but a process involves high pressure with carbon dioxide, and that was related to this. We called some of our other response partners, including MDE, who came out. It was quickly mitigated; it went smoothly on our end as far as I'm concerned," Deputy Chief Jacob VanGelder told WBAL.
Coca-Cola authorities wrote in a statement: "We're continuing to conduct a thorough investigation...Employees of an external vendor were injured while performing carbon dioxide-related work inside our facility..."
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