Body of missing worker found at AEP power plant
Posted on: Tuesday, 7 March 2006, 18:53 CST
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - American Electric Power said on Tuesday it recovered the body of a construction worker who died in a smokestack fire on Saturday at a West Virginia power plant and was now focusing on the cause of the blaze.
AEP, one of the largest electric utilities in the United States, said the body of Gerald Talbert, 27, had been missing after the Saturday night fire in a smokestack at the coal-fired Kammer-Mitchell Power Plant near Moundsville, West Virginia. The 1,000-foot stack was under construction.
Talbert was an employee of Pullman Power LLC, the company building the stack. His body was found in a "man cage" suspended inside the stack, AEP said.
Three other workers on top of the stack were rescued by helicopter and other workers escaped through the bottom of the structure.
Columbus, Ohio-based AEP said it is too early to know what impact the fire will have on completion of the construction work.
Mike Rencheck, a senior vice president at AEP, said Pullman Power and the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration are investigating the accident.
Source: REUTERS
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