{"id":313703,"date":"2026-05-13T14:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/313703\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T14:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:08:10","slug":"1-hurt-in-apparent-sulfuric-acid-spill-at-sacramento-industrial-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/313703\/","title":{"rendered":"1 hurt in apparent sulfuric acid spill at Sacramento industrial site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hazardous materials spill at a Sacramento industrial site early Wednesday morning left one worker hurt, firefighters said.<\/p>\n<p>The scene is along Unsworth Avenue, just off Florin Perkins Road.<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento Fire said crews responded just before 4 a.m. and quickly determined the situation was a hazmat incident. A specialized hazardous materials crew was called to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/dg-sacramento-hazmat-sotvo-may13.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"dg-sacramento-hazmat-sotvo-may13.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Scene of the leak response early Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Workers were apparently unloading sulfuric acid from a railcar at the site using compressed air, which firefighters described as a standard procedure. At some point during the work, firefighters said, a leak developed and sulfuric acid got onto one of the workers.<\/p>\n<p>The worker suffered chemical burns to their hands and was taken to the hospital in stable condition, firefighters said.<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews are evaluating the scene to determine whether evacuations are needed, as the product is still leaking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hazardous materials spill at a Sacramento industrial site early Wednesday morning left one worker hurt, firefighters said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-313703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}