Columbia, SC – Sometime early Friday morning, 3 workers suffered burns from steam after a workplace accident at the Columbia Westinghouse nuclear fuel production plant.
According to reports, a mechanical failure near the wash tanks, caused steam to escape and injure the workers. Their injuries consist only of burns from non-radioactive steam. No radioactive material appears to have escaped during the accident. The unidentified workers were transported to a burn treatment facility in Augusta, GA, where they remain. The names of the workers, as well as their current conditions, have not been released at this time.
There is no word as to what initially caused the mechanical failure, and news sources make no mention of a potential investigation, although common sense would dictate that there will be one.
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