Apparently yet another company failed to run their business well and now we have a 3 mile wide sludge spill.
Caterpillar Inc., the Peoria-based maker of mining and construction machinery, confirmed in a statement Sunday that "an undetermined amount of waste oil" overflowed from a storage area at the company's manufacturing facility in Joliet.
"Caterpillar has notified appropriate authorities about this overflow, and the company immediately began corrective action when the overflow was discovered," the statement said. "The company is coordinating efforts to contain and remediate this overflow."
The company also said it would investigate the incident and "put in place management practices that minimize the potential for future occurrences."
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