Fourteen students were sent to the hospital as a precaution on Wednesday morning after a student accidentally discharged pepper spray on a school bus, police said.

Officers responded to reports of the incident on the 6000 block of Ebenezer Road around 9:35 a.m. on Wednesday morning, according to a news release from the Baltimore County Police Department. The student found the pepper spray before boarding the bus, but police said that the “deployment of the spray was not intentional or malicious in nature.”

The 14 students were brought to the hospital after “experiencing the effects of the spray,” according to the news release. It was not immediately clear if all of the students had been cleared and released.

The student will face “serious consequences,” according to a letter from Vincent Farm Elementary School Principal Jamie Basignani to parents.

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Basignani added that Baltimore County Schools prohibits students from carrying mace, tear gas devices or pepper spray products on buses or school property.

There were about 30 students on the bus when the pepper spray was deployed, WJZ reported.

WJZ is a media partner of The Baltimore Banner.