SACUL (January 31, 2012)--Two workers were critically hurt Tuesday in what evidently was an electrical explosion and fire at a biomass power plant in Sacul in East Texas, authorities said.
A dispatcher Nacogdoches County Sheriff's Office dispatcher said the accident was reported at around 8 a.m. Tuesday at the facility in Sacul.
A spokesman for Fagen Inc. of Granite Falls, Minn., which operates the unit, declined comment.
Dispatcher Jerry Heilmann said the accident evidently involves some type of electrical explosion, but the cause remains under investigation.
Heilmann said the fire has been extinguished.
Heilmann said two men were in critical condition as they were transported to a hospital.
Further details were not immediately available.
