{"id":249768,"date":"2026-07-22T22:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T22:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249768\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T22:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T22:18:10","slug":"berks-county-officials-urge-caution-after-workers-injured-by-hazardous-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249768\/","title":{"rendered":"Berks County officials urge caution after workers injured by hazardous trash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/news-team\/003b0fcd-4def-48bb-ad8b-2204a8b1d7fe\" aria-label=\"Lori Burkholder profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/003b0fcd-4def-48bb-ad8b-2204a8b1d7fe_1654041445.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Lori Burkholder\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/news-team\/4f5c2ac9-974d-460c-8618-1fcbb388c0f8\" aria-label=\"Brian Roche profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4f5c2ac9-974d-460c-8618-1fcbb388c0f8_1654040425.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Brian Roche\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Berks County officials urge caution after workers injured by hazardous trash<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/news-team\/003b0fcd-4def-48bb-ad8b-2204a8b1d7fe\" aria-label=\"Lori Burkholder profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/003b0fcd-4def-48bb-ad8b-2204a8b1d7fe_1654041445.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Lori Burkholder\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/news-team\/4f5c2ac9-974d-460c-8618-1fcbb388c0f8\" aria-label=\"Brian Roche profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4f5c2ac9-974d-460c-8618-1fcbb388c0f8_1654040425.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Brian Roche\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>READING, Pa. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Authorities in Berks County are urging residents to be cautious about disposing of hazardous materials after three workers in Reading were injured by items in trash bags.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Officials said some workers were injured by items such as glass that were improperly discarded.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">&#8220;In a couple of cases, there were hypodermic syringes that injured workers handling them,&#8221; officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Berks County officials urge caution after workers injured by hazardous trash READING, Pa. \u2014 Authorities in Berks County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[106809,349,82127,106810,106811,736,128,130,129,106812],"class_list":["post-249768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-authorities-in-berks-county","tag-berks-county","tag-hazardous-materials","tag-hypodermic-syringes","tag-items-in-trash-bags","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-three-workers-injured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}