No injuries reported in chemical spill at Winthrop

Rock Hill Fire, EMS and Emergency Management crews were called to Winthrop’s Life Sciences building just after 1 o’clock this afternoon after a chemical spill.

Winthrop Associate Vice President of Facilities Management Walter Hardin.

There were no injuries reported in today’s incident and the building was not evacuated.

Hardin says the science buildings are equipped with state-of-the-art systems designed to minimize any harm.

Students we spoke to say there were not notified of any incident via the school’s emergency text notification system.