{"id":2028097,"date":"2023-09-11T14:22:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T18:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/massive-explosion-rocks-us-food-processing-facility\/"},"modified":"2023-09-11T14:24:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T18:24:13","slug":"massive-explosion-rocks-us-food-processing-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/massive-explosion-rocks-us-food-processing-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge blast shakes US food processing plant."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmassive-explosion-rocks-us-food-processing-facility%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2028097&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Explosion and Fire at Archer Daniels Midland Facility Injures Employees<\/h2>\n<p>An explosion \u200cand fire at an Archer Daniels Midland facility in Illinois injured eight employees and \u2063sent a \u2063tower of smoke into the air Sunday evening, officials said \u200bMonday.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion occurred shortly\u2062 after\u2064 7 p.m. at \u200bthe east plant in the ADM processing complex \u200bin Decatur, Illinois. Several \u200cemployees \u200bwere injured and transported \u200bto a hospital, the agricultural company said in a statement on its website Sunday.<\/p>\n<h3>Injuries and Investigation<\/h3>\n<p>Battalion Chief Wade \u200bWatson with the\u200b Decatur Fire Department said in a statement Monday morning that eight ADM workers were \u2063injured, and six of them were taken from the scene by \u2064ambulance \u2063with the &#8220;extent of injuries unknown.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The statement said the fire was\u2064 under control and a fire crew remains on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/massive-explosion-rocks-us-food-processing-facility\/\" title=\"Huge blast shakes US food processing plant.\">scene monitoring hot spots<\/a>. The cause of the explosion and\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-remains-silent-on-wave-of-anti-semitic-crimes-in-us\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Remains Silent On Wave Of Anti-Semitic Crimes In US\">fire remains<\/a> under \u2062investigation. The fire department said the incident did not warrant\u200b the evacuation of\u2064 nearby residents.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it did \u200dnot know the cause of the explosion, \u200dwhich was \u200dfollowed \u2064by \u2062a large \u200bplume of dark smoke\u200c shooting high \u2064into the \u200dair\u200b above the facility in a video posted \u200cby WCIA-TV.<\/p>\n<p>ADM said in an email to The Associated Press early Monday that it \u200dhad no additional information at the time. A company employee later said that ADM officials \u2062were preparing an updated statement that would be released Monday morning.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">An explosion\u200b at an\u2062 Archer Daniels Midland\u200b facility in Illinois has injured several employees, the company says. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mCBEqCimPp\">https:\/\/t.co\/mCBEqCimPp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBC News (@NBCNews) \u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCNews\/status\/1701230423240569148?\">September 11, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Previous Incident and Location<\/h3>\n<p>The explosion is \u200bthe second incident at\u200c the plant in less \u200dthan a month, \u200bthe (Decatur) Herald &#038; Review reported.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 28, two Decatur firefighters required hospital treatment after \u2062they battled a large fire at the plant. In that incident, crews found heavy fire in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/explosion-fire-at-archer-daniels-midland-facility-in-illinois-injures-8-employees\/\" title=\"8 employees injured in explosion and fire at Archer Daniels Midland facility in Illinois.\">processing tank<\/a> that was spreading into\u2064 adjacent tanks.<\/p>\n<p>Decatur is located about 40 miles\u2062 (64 kilometers) east of Springfield and \u200cabout\u2064 180 \u200cmiles (289 kilometers) southwest\u2064 of Chicago, where ADM is headquartered.<\/p>\n<h3>Plant Details<\/h3>\n<p>It was not immediately clear what products are made at the plant\u2062 where the explosion occurred. \u200cThe company&#8217;s\u200c Decatur complex employs more than 4,000\u2064 workers, according\u2064 to the company&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic\">The Western Journal has reviewed this Associated Press story and may have altered it prior to publication to\u2062 ensure\u200b that it meets our editorial\u2064 standards.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-massive-explosion-rocks-us-food-processing-facility\/\">Massive Explosion Rocks\u2064 US Food Processing \u2063Facility<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western \u2064Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An explosion and fire at an Illinois Archer Daniels Midland facility injured eight employees and caused a massive tower of smoke on Sunday evening. The incident took place at the east plant in the ADM processing complex in Decatur, Illinois, shortly after 7 p.m. Multiple injured employees were transported for medical treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":2028098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2028097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2028097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2028098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}