5 Treated After Fumes Force Store Evacuation
Five people were treated at a hospital Thursday after vapors from a spilled load of pesticides forced the evacuation of a Thousand Oaks discount store, authorities said.
The five, all store employees, were treated at Westlake Community Hospital and released after they inhaled fumes from 15 broken containers of the pesticide malathion, said Ventura County Fire Department spokeswoman Cece Grives. The containers were in five boxes accidentally dropped in a storeroom at a K mart store in the 300 block of Hampshire Road, Grives said.
No other injuries were reported in the 11:14 a.m. accident, which forced the evacuation of 100 customers and 75 employees, Grives said. It was unknown why the boxes fell, she said.
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