Explosion at Meat Processing Plant Injures 2
Two contractors were taken to the hospital after the electrical panel they were working on exploded, fire chief said.
An explosion Saturday morning at a West Caldwell meat processing plant sent two contractors to the hospital with serious burns and forced an evacuation of the smoke-filled building. West Caldwell Fire Chief Jim Alvine said two contractors were working on an electrical panel at Al & John Inc. on Clinton Road when it exploded, sparking a fire in the electrical room on the building's right side and filling the entire rear of the building with smoke. Contractors Francois MacFarlane, of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Jason Defaoite, of Oak Ridge, N.J., were treated at the scene and transported to St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston with serious burns, West Caldwell police chief Michael Bramhall said. Their injuries are believed to be the result of …
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Michael
8:32 am on Friday, December 14, 2012
I have been working on service panels for years and only a moron would work on it while it is energized or energize it before it was inspected. more ›