OHIO- BEDFORD-Multiple people are injured following an explosion at a metal manufacturing plant

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Authorities responded to a manufacturing business near Bedford Monday afternoon after a massive explosion caused fires and blew debris over neighboring businesses, streets and cars.

Firefighters responding to explosion at metal manufacturing facility near Bedford

Authorities are responding to a manufacturing business near Bedford following an explosion Monday afternoon.

www.news5cleveland.com

 

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Fire is reportedly now under control.

Live: Haze, smell spreading to nearby communities after Oakwood Village fire incident

Authorities are on scene at a Oakwood Village metal factory Monday afternoon.

fox8.com

From the article:

Flying over the scene, FOX 8 SkyFOX helicopter showed a fire and a large plume of smoke coming from the building, but firefighters now have it under control. From the ground, debris can be seen scattered hundreds of yards away and a large chunk of the building is missing. Some of the nearby cars were caught on fire as well.

 

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More than a dozen injured; 1 killed in explosion at metal manufacturing facility near Bedford

Authorities responded to a manufacturing business near Bedford Monday afternoon after a massive explosion caused fires and blew debris over neighboring businesses, streets and cars.

www.news5cleveland.com

Authorities said there were multiple burn victims taken from inside the plant to a nearby hospital. One person was taken by LifeFlight helicopter and flown to a hospital for treatment. More than a dozen were injured in the explosion. One person, 46-year-old Steven Mullins of North Ridgeville, has died, according to the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office.

Oakwood Fire Department officials said the cause of the explosion is under investigation but called the facility a "relatively safe plant."

"It's a foundry, so you're dealing with molten hot metal—so there's always an inherent danger," said Oakwood Fire Captain Brian Dirocco.

 

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Environmental engineers headed to site of Bedford explosion killed in plane crash

Investigation begins into Arkansas plane crash that killed 5

Federal investigators are heading to Arkansas Thursday to determine the cause of a small plane crash that killed five employees of an environmental consulting firm

abcnews.go.com

Environmental consulting firm CTEH, based in Little Rock, said the five dead, including the pilot, were all employees responding to the scene of an Ohio metals plant where an explosion this week killed one worker and sent more than a dozen to the hospital.

 

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No good news coming out of Ohio this week.