Kentucky Electric Steel Workers Injured
- {Kentucky}...A safety investigation continues after four workers at the Kentucky Electric Steel plant in Coalton off I-64 in Boyd County were injured. Cannonsburg Fire Chief Richard Cyrus says the accident happened just before 10:30 P.M. Tuesday night. Cyrus says two men were life-flighted to Cabell Huntington Hospital. One had third degree burns, and one suffered smoke and heat inhalation. Cyrus says two were taken by ambulance to Cabell Huntington Hospital with burns and hearing loss. Cyrus says the plant safety manager told him the injuries came from contact with or heat from molten steel. State OSHA safety officials are conducting an investigation which could take up to six months.
