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Broken boiler sickens Va. worker

By Jeff Branscome
The Free Lance-Star

FREDRICKSBURG, Va. — For a few weeks this month, H.H. Poole Middle School cafeteria employee Vickie Blanchard said, she left work with a migraine and an upset stomach.

These symptoms caused her to miss five days on the job, she said.

It all started Jan. 4, when a boiler malfunctioned and emitted an odor in the cafeteria’s kitchen. The Stafford County school was evacuated that day.

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