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Two Bridgewater State University employees were taken to the hospital after they were sickened by an unknown chemical Thursday.
At 11:41 a.m. the Bridgewater fire department was called to Bridgewater State University and began a tier 1 haz-mat response-- the least serious response level.
Two food service employees were working near a dishwasher and food disposal area in a kitchen in the east campus commons, when they became ill.
"They were nauseous, they were dizzy, they were vomiting," said Eva Gaffney, Director of the Office of Institutional Communications at BSU. "They were treated by the town of Bridgewater's ambulance crews and subsequently sent to Brockton Hospital for further treatment and evaluation."
The two employees were treated and released and Gaffney said no students were ever in danger.
"The dining hall at no time was evacuated, nor were other employees evacuated from their positions. It was very contained."
Gaffney said samples from the scene were taken by university police to a state lab in Boston for further testing.
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