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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Cranberry Township, PA) A factory in Cranberry Township had to be evacuated this morning because of an accidental release of nitric acid. The incident occurred at 770 Commonwealth Drive at the building for the company Fresenius Kabi USA, a global healthcare company whose specialty is both medicines that are lifesaving and technologies for clinical nutrition, infusion and transfusion. According to dispatchers, nitric acid was accidentally released from a barrel, causing a red vapor cloud to gather inside the building. Just after 9 a.m. this morning is when Hazmat crews were called to the scene and no injuries were reported as of around noon. At this time, this evacuation incident is finished.