Three injured in Georgia-Pacific plant fire
CEDAR SPRINGS, Ga. - Officials say three workers were injured in a fire at a power plant that provides electricity to a Georgia-Pacific linerboard plant on the Chattahoochee River in southwest Georgia.
Details of the fire yesterday morning are sketchy. But a plant spokeswoman says it was what is known as a "puff-back fire," or flash fire, in the bark delivery system that provides material to be burned in the power plant.
Spokeswoman Celia Bostwick says the three workers were taken to the Southeast Alabama Medical Center in Dothan. She says that because of privacy rules, she cannot provide identities of the workers or the nature of their injuries, but she says no one died.
Bostwick said there was no property damage at the plant.
The Georgia-Pacific factory, which first opened in 1963 in Early County, employs about 800 workers. It produces linerboard and corrugating medium for box manufacturers.
Info source: http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/local/14885805.htm
Details of the fire yesterday morning are sketchy. But a plant spokeswoman says it was what is known as a "puff-back fire," or flash fire, in the bark delivery system that provides material to be burned in the power plant.
Spokeswoman Celia Bostwick says the three workers were taken to the Southeast Alabama Medical Center in Dothan. She says that because of privacy rules, she cannot provide identities of the workers or the nature of their injuries, but she says no one died.
Bostwick said there was no property damage at the plant.
The Georgia-Pacific factory, which first opened in 1963 in Early County, employs about 800 workers. It produces linerboard and corrugating medium for box manufacturers.
Info source: http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/local/14885805.htm
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