Posted on 04/18/2023 1:02:08 PM PDT by Red Badger
WOOD RIVER, Neb. (KSNB/Gray News) - One employee is dead, while another employee, along with three contractors, were sent to the hospital on Monday after an explosion at the Green Plains Ethanol Plant in Wood River.
The employee was fatally injured at the facility “during routine maintenance and repairs on a whole stillage tank,” said a Green Plains spokesperson.
The spokesperson said the plant was not operational at the time of the explosion.
Hall County Emergency Manager Jon Rosenlund told KSNB that just before 2:45 p.m., a 911 came into the dispatch center about the explosion
Rosenlund said Wood River Fire and EMS along with the Hall County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched. He deferred all questions to the sheriff’s office, who were still on the scene around 3:30 p.m.
The second employee and three contractors on site who were injured are receiving medical treatment, the company said.
“We send our thoughts, prayers, and condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues of our employee,” the spokesperson said.
The company said they are cooperating with the authorities and will be investigating the accident.
This is the same facility where a fire was reported on Friday in a grain leg.
Sabotage and terrorism
Happening daily.
Looks like it didn’t work Friday and the terrorists came back.
Has there been one leftist business burned?
Will the government now take ethanol out of our gasoline?
Broward county FL here, it just rained for days. Where our gas comes from (port Everglades) is flooded. No gas stations have any gas. I have half a tank right now.
They’ll hire anyone now- a -days. Too many accidents = idiots or terrorism.
I make my own. It’s a family tradition.
Based on the limited information given, I’m going to guess they didn’t properly outgas and purge the vessel before they started maintenance or repairs.
Ethanol vapors collected in the bottom of the tank, someone cuts in with a plasma or a Metabo and kaboom.
Lefties don’t have businesses.
I’m on a quarter tank. My bad for driving a 3/4 ton 6.0 Chevy.
If it save one life it’s worth it.
Bud
Disney
Amazon
FB
Google
numerous restaurants
Whole foods
Trader Joes
Government Bureaucracies
Environmental organizations
law offices
Leftist lobbying firms
They are everywhere. None get bombed or arsoned.
MicroSoft is now fully a art of the Biden government now?
Google too probably.
I would love to drive something like a Kia Rio, but pulling a trailer loaded with cedar beams would be impossible. Plus tools and scaffold. 3.22 a gallon at Brookshires.
⁹I got people undercutting me, and I don’t know how they do it.
Point taken.
“Will the government now take ethanol out of our gasoline?”
You think the ag lobbyists will allow that? You don’t have a choice citizen.
—”Ethanol vapors collected in the bottom of the tank, someone cuts in with a plasma or a Metabo and kaboom.”
No purge? No sniffer? No safety committee signing off on every step?
I will NEVER forget the Remember Charlie safety video.
I think we watched it about once a year.
Not complaining it was a good film.
Using food to make fuel that wrecks cars.
I used to live there, late 70’s, in Margate. Flooded streets were the norm for this time of year..........................
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