Incident Report Subject: US - Two injured in Ethanol flash fire at Biodiesel Producer Date of Email report: Mon 03/11/2014 07:27 Report Detail:
Firefighter uses a thermal imaging camera to look for heat at the top of the tank that flashed Two workers were injured in a flash fire atop a tank at Midwest Biodiesel Products LLC in South Roxana Thursday. The South Roxana Fire Department received a call for a tank on fire at approximately 11:40 a.m., according to South Roxana Fire Chief Todd Werner. South Roxana, Roxana and Hartford fire departments responded to the biodiesel company, located 7350 Illinois Route 111 in South Roxana. The workers were doing some welding repairs on top of one of the roughly 50-foot-high tanks when some ethanol inside the tank caught fire,Additional Documentation:
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