12 Hospitalized After Contact With Toxic Oil
Associated Press
BROWNSVILLE, Ohio —
Twelve people were hospitalized for observation Wednesday after they came in contact with carcinogenic PCB-bearing oil that leaked from a power transformer aboard a truck on Interstate 70, state police said.
Westbound lanes of the highway in the southeastern counties of Licking and Muskingum were closed and traffic rerouted after the leak was discovered, authorities said. PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, were commonly used for transformer coolants until 1976, when they were linked to cancer.
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