Crews clean up chemical spill

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Hazmat crews were called out to a chemical spill on the city’s southwest side Friday evening. Officials said the spill at a business presented no public danger.

Three departments – Wayne Township, Indianapolis and Decatur Township fire departments - were called to Hill & Griffith Co. at Farnsworth Street and Holt Road at about 6:30 to respond of an overturned tanker and a chemical spill.

The labeling on the tanker, which had been parked in an area where the ground was soft and had subsequently sunk into the ground and overturned, indicated it held hypochlorite, a bleaching agent.

Crews donned sealed suits and masks to work near the trailer and found about 25 gallons of the liquid chemical was contained to a grassy area, and the leak had stopped. Wayne Township Fire Department said the spill presented no danger to the public, and crews remained on the scene to await a cleanup contractor employed by the tanker’s owner, Switzer Tanklines from Mt. Summit.