{"id":6132,"date":"2014-11-12T21:10:03","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T21:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/?p=6132"},"modified":"2014-11-12T21:10:03","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T21:10:03","slug":"asm-responds-worker-burned-after-explosion-at-connecticut-natural-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/asm-responds-worker-burned-after-explosion-at-connecticut-natural-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM Responds: Worker burned after explosion at Connecticut Natural Gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">WFSB.com<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/WFSB.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=482122;hostDomain=www.wfsb.com;playerWidth=630;playerHeight=385;isShowIcon=true;clipId=10841683;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=Video%2520Player;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=fixed\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><a title=\"WFSB 3 Connecticut\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wfsb.com\">WFSB 3 Connecticut<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Joseph Wenzel IV, News Editor<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"WNStoryDateline\">EAST HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) &#8211;<\/span>Connecticut Natural Gas employees were evacuated after a small explosion and fire was reported near the building in East Hartford on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The small explosion was reported in an outbuilding on Meadow Street, which is used to fill natural gas trucks around 12:30 p.m. The building is in a parking lot and away from other buildings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fire chief said a mechanic was filling a truck when a compressor exploded and created a small fire along with the explosion. The worker&#8217;s hands and head were burned and the explosion caused the panels of the building to partly pop off.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It sounded like a dumpster and then all the emergency crews showed up,&#8221; said Lucie Wilson of East Hartford.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sources told Eyewitness News that the explosion shook the building.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The outbuilding holds three gas tanks, all used to fuel the company&#8217;s natural gas powered vehicles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;That system has been in place &#8230; CNG uses natural power gas and this is the first time we&#8217;ve ever run across an incident like this,&#8221; Fire Chief John Oates said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfsb.com\/story\/27365691\/worker-burned-after-explosion-at-connecticut-natural-gas#ixzz3ItI5Bbtv\">http:\/\/www.wfsb.com\/story\/27365691\/worker-burned-after-explosion-at-connecticut-natural-gas#ixzz3ItI5Bbtv<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WFSB.com WFSB 3 Connecticut By Joseph Wenzel IV, News Editor EAST HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) &#8211;Connecticut Natural Gas employees were evacuated after a small explosion and fire was reported near the building in East Hartford on Wednesday afternoon. The small explosion &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/asm-responds-worker-burned-after-explosion-at-connecticut-natural-gas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[117,41],"tags":[447,436,113],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6133,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6132\/revisions\/6133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}