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Chemical Smell Reported At Mpls. Plant

NEW HOPE, Minn. (WCCO) -- Some problems at a manufacturing company in New Hope had employees complaining of irritated eyes and throats.

The symptoms were reported at about 1 a.m. Friday at Minneapolis Die Casting on Boone Avenue.

Two workers were moving metal shavings into the back of a trailer, when a reaction gave off an ammonia-like smell.

The two workers refused medical treatment.

No one else was affected.

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