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Mad Mema


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Yuck! 7 hospitalized after office fridge cleanup

Hazmat team called in after mix of rotten food, chemicals sparks vomiting

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May 13: A hazmat team is called in after a California office fridge full of rotten food created a smell so noxious that it sent seven people to the hospital. MSNBC's Tamron Hall reports.

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updated 11:17 a.m. CT, Wed., May 13, 2009

SAN JOSE, Calif. - An office worker cleaning a fridge full of rotten food created a smell so noxious that it sent seven co-workers to the hospital and made many others ill.

Firefighters had to evacuate the AT&T building in downtown San Jose on Tuesday after the fumes led someone to call 911. A hazmat team was called in.

What crews found was an unplugged refrigerator crammed with moldy food.

Authorities say an enterprising office worker had decided to clean it out, placing the food in a conference room while using two cleaning chemicals to scrub down the mess.

The mixture of old lunches and disinfectant caused 28 people to need treatment for vomiting and nausea.

Authorities say the worker who cleaned the fridge didn't need treatment she can't smell because of allergies.



doh.gif We have the cleaning crew go through our fridge once a week. bleh.gif



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Ewww!  bleh 

Would that qualify for workman's comp?

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I don't know. But jeez... who would want to use that fridge anyway if it was that nasty?

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I don't put anything in the fridge here for two reasons, that is one of them.

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I don't use our office fridge either. Habit... years ago we had poor fridge hygiene too, but nothing this bad, and because we had a lunch bandit.

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I have heard of things disappearing in the past. Plus there is poor fridge hygiene too. They seem to clean it out once every two months. With fair warning of course. But they also do it on a Friday evening.

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Lucky for us, our receptionist is OC, so it's always clean...

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I bet she was using bleach, and the stuff was so gross, it was creating ammonia.

Well, I don't blame her for wanting to clean the fridge.

Who wants to bet there was a memo sent around about proper food storage etiquette, along with a note taped to the fridge. Because you know, memos and notes always work for that type of thing.

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Which is exactly why I don't use the work fridge. bleh.gif

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