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Article: EXPLOSION HITS WATER SUPPLIER: WELDER HURT, FLOW UNAFFECTED WHEN GAS BLAST RIPS PLANT ROOF.(News)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- June 4, 1999
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Byline: Bhavna Mistry Daily News Staff Writer
An explosion Thursday tore open the roof of the Palmdale Water District treatment plant and burned a worker who had been installing a chlorine-generation system, expected to be safer than storing tanks of chlorine gas.
An accumulation of hydrogen gas blew up while the worker was using a welding torch to install a vent for a bleaching-agent tank, causing first-degree and second-degree burns on the man's arms and cutting his face, firefighters said.
``He's pretty lucky to be alive,'' said Capt. Ted Lindaman of the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
The 30-year-old man, whose name was not ...