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The Canada Sauce bottling plant is located in Chicoutimi-Nord.
Photo : Radio-Canada / Myriam Gauthier
Posted at 2:28 p.m. EDT
A dozen employees of the Saguenay company Canada Sauce had to be transported to the Chicoutimi hospital as a preventive measure on Thursday due to a carbon monoxide leak.
Owner Simon-Pierre Murdock claims that it was an equipment breakdown in the facilities on Sainte-Claire Street, in Chicoutimi-Nord, that caused the leak.
The Saguenay firefighters intervened quickly. They measured too high levels of carbon monoxide inside the factory. They applied the protocol in force and had to send the workers by ambulance to the hospital center.
Mr. Murdock assures that everything has since returned to normal and that his employees are safe and sound. The rest of the team is busy cleaning up the place so that they can restart condiment production on Friday.
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