The CSB said it has been reported that approximately 17,000 residents evacuated, while nearly 90,000 people in metropolitan Atlanta were advised to shelter in place. I-20, next to the Bio-Lab facility, was closed for 18 hours, and the surrounding roads were also affected. Nightly shelter-in-place advisories continued for weeks as air quality concerns persisted. The warehouse involved in the incident was destroyed.

"This incident and the substantial potential risk that it posed to the surrounding community was completely unacceptable. Reactive chemical incidents can have severe environmental and public safety impacts due to the combination of fire, toxic gas emissions, and hazardous materials involved, and Bio-Lab and any other facility that has reactive chemicals onsite must manage those materials safely," CSB Chairperson Steve Owens said in the release.