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> 2 Killed, 4 Injured In Mishap At Florida Coal Power Plant
> When found, the workers were covered in slag, which can reach temperatures higher than 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
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> June 30 (Reuters) - Two workers were killed and four injured in a mishap while they were performing routine maintenance on a tank at a Tampa-area coal power plant on Thursday, rescue and company officials said.
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> The workers were carrying out maintenance on a tank containing slag, a byproduct of coal, when the incident occurred at Tampa Electric’s Big Bend Power Station in Apollo Beach, Tampa Electric and Emera Company spokeswoman Cherie Jacobs told a news conference.
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> “The details on how this happened, we don’t know,” she said.
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> Rescue workers received a call at about 4:20 p.m. local time about a possible explosion at the plant. They found two workers dead and four injured when they arrived, said Corey Dierdorff, a spokesman for Hillsborough County Fire Rescue.
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> The injured workers were taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, he said.
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> “They would be categorized as very severe,” he said, according to the New York Times.
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> Coal produces slag when it burns, which falls into a water tank at the plant where it cools and crystallizes. The substance is then recycled to be used for sandblasting and roofing industries, Jacobs said.
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> The dead workers were covered in slag, which can reach temperatures higher than 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit (538 degrees Celsius), authorities told the New York Times.
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> Power service was not interrupted and all other workers were accounted for, Jacobs said.