Hazmat crews investigate bio-hazard spill at UPenn
Thursday, August 6, 2015
WEST PHILADELPHIA -- A hazardous materials team responded to the University Of Pennsylvania School Of Dentistry after a bio-hazard spill was reported early Thursday morning.
The school's cleanup staff discovered the spill just before 2:00 a.m. Thursday inside a second floor laboratory on the 200 block of South 40th Street in University City.
They contacted authorities, who determined the spill was a non-lethal clear liquid leaking from a plastic tank.
The incident was officially declared under control by 3:20 a.m.
No one was injured.
