3 dead, 2 injured in U.S. gas plant
Xinhua, October 9, 2015 Adjust font size:
Three contract workers were killed and two others were seriously injured in an explosion at a national gas plant in the U.S. state of Louisiana on Thursday, local media reported.
As many as 20 workers at the site when the blast happened at around 11 a.m. local time at the the Williams Partners facility in the town of Gibson, about 96 km southwest of New Orleans, according to the Times-Picayune, an English daily newspaper in New Orleans.
The injured were sent to hospital for burn treatment, and the state hazardous materials unit and local first responders were on the scene working on putting out the fire Thursday night.
The company said that the facility had been shut down and no gas was flowing through its pipeline at the time of the explosion.
It is unclear what led to the blast, but the company said that it looks forward to cooperating with regulatory agencies to conduct a thorough investigation to determine the cause of the incident. Endi