100 treated after hot sauce ingredient accident
By James Nye
16 August 2012

More than 100 FedEx employees at the firm's Memphis parcel hub had to be evacuated and treated at the scene after a forklift truck punctured a five gallon barrel of concentrated chili peppers used to make pepper spray.

The incident, which occurred in the early hours of this morning left two FedEx employees needing hospital treatment after they inhaled refined capsicum from the peppers which caused chest pains.

The irritant can lead to respiratory difficulties or burn eyes and skin but FedEx said that 117 employees were decontaminated and then evaluated following the accident and went back to work or traveled home if their shift was over.

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That must have been very painful! I'm glad they are o.k. now.

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Yes it had to be. Holy cow and to think a puncture in a little 5 gal barrel could do that.