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Understanding And Preventing Chemical Incidents, This West Virginia Morning

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On this West Virginia Morning, there are still many questions that surround the chemical incident near Institute last week that killed two workers. Chris Schulz spoke with Dr. Christopher Martin, a specialist in occupational and environmental medicine at West Virginia University (WVU), to try and shed some light on what happened.

Also, Mountaineer Food Bank is expanding its warehouse to serve significantly more food insecure West Virginians. The nonprofit cut the ribbon on its new, 864,000 square-foot facility in Gassaway last week. The central location will serve 48 of the state’s 55 counties and is designed to quickly get more food to those in need.

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Maria Young produced this episode.

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