Two Northrop Grumman employees were hospitalized after being injured while coming into contact with an “unknown substance” at the company’s Advanced Technology Lab on Tuesday afternoon, according to the Anne Arundel County Fire Department.
The fire department received a call at 2:46 p.m. about the matter, according to Lt. Joshua Pfeiffer.
The substance “made contact with their skin and caused some irritation,” Pfeiffer said, adding that the employees were taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The Northrop Grumman Advanced Technology Lab, which produces and develops microelectronics, is on the 1200 block of Winterson Road near Northrop Grumman in Linthicum Heights.
Pfeiffer said the threat of the substance was contained. Investigators are working to identify the substance, he added.
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