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A Utah man died Tuesday after a Brigham City warehouse explosion in a HyPerComp Engineering building where company employees work with oxygen.
A witness told ABC4 News that he was working nearby when he heard the Brigham City warehouse explosion near 150 South 800 West at about 7 a.m.
“I turned around and it looked like fireworks lit the sky, and we walked over to see what happened and we saw the building had exploded and it had a big hole in it,” Allen Waddoups said.
A man in his 30s was found dead by witnesses just after the explosion.
“We can confirm there is one fatality,” said Brigham City Police Lieutenant Tony Ferderber, who also said that the identity of the victim was expected to be released later this week.
Brigham City warehouse explosion:
Small company ‘like a family’
Ferderber said in a news release that investigators determined that the man was transferring oxygen from a larger tank into a smaller tank. “Something caused one of the tanks to rupture, which caused several other tanks to rupture, resulting in the deflagration,” Ferderber said.
The explosion was powerful enough to blow metal siding off the side of the structure and blow out the windows of another business across the parking lot.
Brigham City warehouse explosion:
Small company ‘like a family’
According to a statement released by HyPerComp president Daryl Thompson, “The employee was working with high-pressure gas cylinders when the accident occurred. Normal operating procedures are in place for this operation and were being followed at the time.”
The statement went on to say, “HyPerComp personnel are deeply saddened by this incident. The company employs fewer than 20 people who work like family.”
HyPerComp Engineering is a small high-tech composite materials company with its research, development and production facilities in Brigham City, which is about 60 miles due north of Salt Lake City.
HyPerComp Engineering makes products such as lightweight high-pressure composite material vessels for aerospace and industrial applications. The products are shipped worldwide.
A Utah man died Tuesday after a Brigham City warehouse explosion in a HyPerComp Engineering building where company employees work with oxygen. Brigham City is about 60 miles north of Salt Lake City. … Five employees of a contractor doing work in Rose Hill, North Carolina, were injured in a feed plant explosion Wednesday morning and airlifted to a burn center in Chapel Hill, about 110 miles northwest of the explosion.
Duplin County feed plant explosion: Five airlifted to burn center
Five employees of a contractor doing work at a Duplin County feed plant in Rose Hill, North Carolina, were injured in an explosion Wednesday morning and airlifted to a burn center in Chapel Hill, about 110 miles northwest of the explosion.
Rose Hill Fire Chief Gary Boney told WITN News that the explosion happened at Valley Proteins on Yellowcut Road, off of Highway 117. Boney said three medical helicopters were called in for victims.
Michael Smith, vice chairman of Valley Proteins, told WITN that four workers were airlifted after the feed plant explosion. He said the four were taken to the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center in Chapel Hill. A fifth victim was taken to Vidant Duplin, but later airlifted to the burn center.
Smith said the area where work was being done is a dusty area, and he said he figured that dust caused the explosion. Smith said he did not believe the contractor had the proper “hot work” permits needed to be using welding and cutting equipment in that area.
He said it’s believed the contractors were using a welder at the time of the explosion.
No Valley Proteins employees were in the area where the feed plant explosion happened, Smith said, and it doesn’t appear the plant received much damage from the blast.
The North Carolina Department of Labor is investigating the incident.
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