A restaurant worker trying to squeegee a cleaning chemical off the floor of the kitchen of a Boston-area Buffalo Wild Wings was overcome by fumes, rushed to the hospital, and died soon after.
One employee had poured the sodium hypochlorite sanitizing product Super 8 on the floor in the kitchen, and immediately went outside to get fresh air, according to CNN. The second employee was trying to clean it up by squeegeeing it outside, when he was overcome, also went outside, where medical personnel found him suffering from nausea. He was taken to the hospital where he died.
Ten other people, two of them customers, were also hospitalized, according to USA Today. A hazmat team was called in and his declared the restaurant safe. OSHA is investigating the incident.
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