Why I don’t do potlucks: Alabama workers sickened at holiday dinner

This is why I don’t do potlucks, don’t get invited to dinner, and do most of the cooking.

Marty Roney of the Montgomery Advertiser reports that about a dozen workers at a Prattville manufacturing plant became sickened Friday following a company party.

No foul play is suspected, and it looks like it is a case of accidental food poisoning, said Capt. Jeff Hassell, who commands the Prattville Police Department’s investigations division. Kinedyne Corporation, which operates a plant in the 1100 block of Washington Ferry Road, held its holiday lunch Friday. About an hour after eating, several employees complained of feeling sick, Hassell said.

Three employees were taken by ambulance to Prattville Baptist Hospital’s emergency room, with a fourth employee going by private vehicle, said Ernie Baggett, director of the Autauga County Emergency Management Agency. There were eight other employees who reported feeling sick who did not seek medical treatment, Baggett said.

“It was a pot luck dinner,” Baggett said. “No one became seriously ill, but a few employees wanted to go to the hospital just to get checked out. The complaints we received were of upset stomachs and some nausea.”

 

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