{"id":368647,"date":"2026-10-23T13:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T18:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/ohio-mayor-says-employee-error-caused-chemical-leak-lifts-evacuation-orders"},"modified":"2026-10-23T13:18:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T18:18:18","slug":"ohio-mayor-says-employee-error-caused-chemical-leak-lifts-evacuation-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/ohio-mayor-says-employee-error-caused-chemical-leak-lifts-evacuation-orders","title":{"rendered":"Ohio mayor says worker error precipitated chemical leak, lifts evacuation orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB \">TOLEDO, Ohio &#8212; <\/span>Officials in northeast Ohio said Friday that a <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/toledo-chemical-release-ohio-hazmat-c7ead0b5a1eb0e4672ce4085bdaf6124\">chemical tank leak<\/a> earlier in the week was caused by a chemical reaction resulting from an employee error and lifted all remaining evacuation orders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Toledo Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz said during a news conference that the venting of the tank that ruptured at MC Tank Terminal on Tuesday was finally completed late Thursday night, allowing a hazmat team to enter the site and test safety levels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cAt this time, we do feel confident that the site is safe,&#8221; Toledo Fire and Rescue Battalion Chief Blake Molnar said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The rupture happened late Tuesday night. MC Tank Transport, the owner of the site, said the tank contained glycidyl methacrylate, which it described as \u201can industrial chemical used to make certain plastics, paints and coatings perform better.\u201d Hundreds of people were initially forced from their homes and 57 were treated at hospitals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The chemical leak happened when an employee of the company \u201cintroduced a temperature level to the tank in the process of trying to transfer the liquid&#8221; that caused a chemical reaction, the mayor said. The company has \u201caccepted responsibility\u201d for what happened, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cThere was no fire, there was no explosion. There was a very serious chemical reaction, which now happily has run its course, and we\u2019re now finally able to return to some level of normalcy here in our community,&#8221; Kapszukiewicz said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">There are questions that remain unanswered, and the investigation is ongoing, he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/wireStory\/toledo-ohio-mayor-employee-error-caused-chemical-leak-137517822\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOLEDO, Ohio &#8212; Officials in northeast Ohio said Friday that a chemical tank leak earlier in the week was caused by a chemical reaction resulting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":364284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[42900,42898,10808,42901,42230,1609,42899,1108,7379,42228,9050],"class_list":["post-368647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-blake-molnar","tag-chemical-leak","tag-chemical-response","tag-error-precipitated-chemical-leak","tag-industrial-chemical","tag-mayor","tag-mc-tank-terminal","tag-ohio","tag-toledo","tag-wade-kapszukiewicz","tag-worker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368649,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368647\/revisions\/368649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}