A chemical spill at a SweeTarts factory recently resulted in 11 employees being sent to local hospitals.
Nestle’s Itasca, Ill. factory, which makes the fruity candy, was evacuated after the spill, which happened at about 9:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 16, after a pipe carrying a nonhazardous material used to control humidity in the production environment burst, says Roz O’Hearn, corporate and brand affairs director for Nestle.