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Flash Fire at Gas Plant Injures 3 in CO

Three injured workers suffered burn injuries and were all taken to a hospital.

The flash fire happened while workers were working on a compressor at the Summit Midstream plant in Weld County just south of the Wyoming state line.
The flash fire happened while workers were working on a compressor at the Summit Midstream plant in Weld County just south of the Wyoming state line.
Lance Hernandez, @lancehernandez7

GREELEY, COLO. (AP) — Three workers have been injured in a flash fire at a natural gas plant in northern Colorado.

Dan Harms of the Pawnee Fire Protection District says that the flash fire happened about 9:10 a.m. Wednesday while the workers were working on a compressor at the Summit Midstream plant in Weld County just south of the Wyoming state line. 

The three injured workers suffered burn injuries and were all taken to a hospital. 

Harms told The Denver Post that he did not know the extent of their injuries. 

Summit Midstream spokesman Blake Motley tells The Greeley Tribune said the incident is under investigation.


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