Contractor treads carefully on site of former battery plant.
More than 100 years of history is coming down in Frankfort, Indiana. City officials said what was most recently the Exide Battery plant should be completely demolished by December.
However, demolishing a former battery factory, which once housed hazardous chemicals, is something done with extra precaution. Frankfort Building Inspector Sam Payne is monitoring the process.
“[The plant] had lead and acid, and such materials they made the batteries with,” Payne said. “[The workers] are washing down all the desks, sucking it all up, and decontaminating the whole building before taking it down.”
“A large 85-foot boom will go above some of those facilities and will provide a mist down upon them so that dust stays at an absolute minimum,” Frankfort Mayor Chris McBarnes said. “Barbed-wire fences are being put around the facility at this time to make sure no one can get into that area.”
Production stopped at the plant more than 20 years ago. Exide Battery decided to demolish the buildings.
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