Ammonia leak forces evacuation at Tony's

Tony's Pizza evacuated its plant Sunday because of an ammonia leak.

Harry Smith, director of manufacturing at Tony's, 3019 Scanlan, said the spring on a valve on an ice maker failed.

Someone in the plant recognized the smell and employees were evacuated at about 6:15 p.m. as a precaution, he said.

"It looks much worse from the road than it is," Smith said. "This is standard safety procedure."

Smith said the valve was quickly isolated on the roof and was being repaired Sunday evening.

The leak was in an interior room where no employees were working and never reached a dangerous level, he said.

Smith said employees would be allowed to return to work once the air was evacuated of the ammonia smell.

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Someone that can read says....
Well obviously some people can not read. The leak was not major, don't you think if it was you would have been notified? People were allowed to still be around the plant the evacuation was not a full site evacuation it was just moving people from the danger. There was no danger to your neighborhood. Yes when a leak of any size happens they take it seriously as do the responding crews. But your neighborhood was not in danger.
9/17/2008

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MomOfThree2009 says....
I'm a little agitated by this. The neighboring homes weren't notified of any of this. I live on Foxboro, literally right over from the Tony's building where the tanks are at. I also have small children. I'm upset that there weren't other precautions taken to ensure safety of everyone.
9/9/2008

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concerned mom says....
was that leak so extremely dangerous that a state trooper had to drive 100 mph on belmont by a school playground to get there? that doesn't make sense to me.
9/8/2008

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anonymous says....
it happens all the time, why's it in the paper now?
9/7/2008

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