Rocky River High School closed Thursday after mercury spill prompts cleanup

ROCKY RIVER, Ohio (WJW) – Rocky River High School will be closed on Thursday, Sept. 10, while crews clean up a mercury spill that happened in class.

The school district took to social media Wednesday evening, confirming that a vial of 0.2 to 0.5 mL of mercury broke on a table at the end of a chemistry class just after 3 p.m.

The EPA was contacted after the spill, school officials said.

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“No students came into contact with the mercury,” the district wrote in a statement on X. “One student was in closer proximity to the spill, and that student’s family has been contacted directly.”…

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