Rat repellent takes out TSA staff at Boston Airport
TSA staff complained of headaches and burning eyes after finding rodent repellant in a passenger’s bag.
Four Transportation Security Administration workers at Boston's Logan International Airport have been hospitalized after rodent repellant in a passenger's bag emitted toxic fumes.
According to Associated Press, 15 TSA workers were evacuated from a bag room at Terminal A shortly after the odor was noticed coming for a bag on Monday morning.
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A spokesman for the Massachusetts Port Authority, Massport, Phil Orlandella, told the Boston Herald that the workers suffered headaches, and throat and eye irritation.
They were evacuated from the room, which was declared a hazmat scene until Massport Fire Department and other medical staff showed up at the scene and declared the air quality acceptable.
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State troopers, a bomb-sniffing dog, the Massport Fire Department, and TSA security personnel responded to the incident, State Police said, according to the Boston Globe.
The bag's owners, a couple reportedly heading to Beijing, were questioned but not charged over the incident.
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