Two workers have been killed in a slide on a coal pile at a southern Colorado electricity generating plant
FILE - Wind blows dust and tumbleweeds against a fence east of the Comanche Power Plant, Tuesday, March 18, 2014 near Pueblo, Colo. A search is underway for two workers buried in a coal pile at a southern Colorado power plant. Witnesses said the workers were buried in a slide on the 80-foot-tall coal pile at the Comanche Generating Station in Pueblo on Thursday, June 2 ,2022. PUEBLO, Colo.
Witnesses said the workers were standing about 30 feet up a slope of the pile when the slide occurred about 8:20 a.m., Duran said. Rescuers located the bodies at about 3 p.m. and later were able to recover them, he said. Witnesses reported that the accident happened on a feeder pile for the station's coal-fired power plant, which is Colorado's largest and is operated by Xcel Energy.
Xcel is working with Savage and the Pueblo County Sheriff's Office to determine the cause of the accident, said Nygard, who directed questions about the coal slide to Savage.