NEW CUMBERLAND, W.Va. -researchers to find the answers to which resulted in an explosion at a chemical factory that killed two brothers in the third fatal explosion on the website in 15 years Friday West Virginia.
The explosion happened around from 1.30 p.m. at the plant of AL Solutions Inc. of Cumberland, a small town in Northern Peninsula approximately 33 miles West Virginia West of Pittsburgh. Two other persons were injured.
The first officer on the scene, lieutenant Jeremy Krzys, said that he had been sitting at a traffic light when he heard the explosion and immediately rushed to the factory.
"I just heard a loud bang and suddenly, you have seen black smoke pouring", said Krzys.
Krzys saw two wounded men perform the building when he arrived. He said a man has been severely compromised, while the other was still on fire. His colleagues used blankets to extinguish the man who was on fire.
Chief of police Lester Skinner said he grew with the brothers who were killed and never had the plant: Jeffrey Scott Fish, James e. Fish, 38 and 39. They lived in separate houses approximately 200 yards apart from each other and about five blocks from the plant.
Family and friends have been gathering at home, young fish a few hours after the explosion. A woman outside the House comment has decreased for the family.
Rebecca, a nearby bar lounge Pat Jones said he knew the elder brother.
"Scott was a boy very, very generous," he said. "It what it is would be for anyone, including giving you the shirt on his own back."
A third employee, aged 27, Steven Swain, has been severely compromised and was flown by helicopter to get surgery and other treatments to UPMC Mercy in Pittsburgh hospital. His condition was not released immediately.
The second injured victim was Dave Williams, an entrepreneur who was at the plant of the explosion happened outside. He was treated for burns to her hands and face. Investigators have said that they did not know Williams' age, what kind of work that he or his employer name.
The company reported earlier Thursday night that three workers were killed, based on information obtained emergency response. Chief Financial Officer Ken Kline corrected information about two hours later, saying: company reported wrongly badly burned employee died on the way to the hospital in Pittsburgh.
"Our immediate concern is for our employees and their families", the company said in a release. "We are more differing comment until emergency responders and investigators to do their work, and we have more information than the investigation."
Officials with the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration arrived on the scene, Thursday evening, at the time it was safe to enter the building.
Todd Murray Hancock County Sheriff's Deputy Chief said there would be a joint investigation by the Federal Agency, government representatives and application of the Act.
The plant is a large, complex corrugated cardboard, metal construction and a smaller building stucco-and-slag-block based on the parking lot, i.e. where worked victims. Skinner said that they worked with titanium powder is used as an additive alloy in aluminum.
The powder is packed brick like hockey pucks said Skinner. It is highly flammable and burns much warmer than wood or other fuels, this is why firefighters had complete extinction of hot spots before investigators could make men dead inside.
"You can still feel heat now building on and off the walls", Murray said approximately seven hours after the explosion.
Assistant State Fire Brad Hartley said there was a fire and explosion, but "know us which came first."
AL solutions was formerly called Jamegy Inc. In August 1995, a worker was killed and another injured when an explosion and fire was blown on the West Virginia plant when it is operated by Jamegy. In 2006, another worker died due to an explosion and fire in a production building it.
Coffee Mid-Ridge, which is located along the main road which leads to the city and overlooks the plant waitress Sandy Lemasters stated that she did not hear an explosion that was just a thousand more later. But it didn't take long for people to start arriving in talking about what is reached.
"They came in and said there are two deaths", she said. "It's a shame." The third time, he arrived there. »
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Online:
AL Solutions Inc.: http://www.alsolutionsinc.com/content/corporate.asp
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Associated Press writer Vicki Smith contributed to this report from Morgantown, W.Va.
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