Mo. Pork Plant Blast Kills One, Injures 14

Not to make light, but I wonder if pigs flew.

Police now say at least one person has died, and 14 are injured, in this afternoon’s explosion at a pork processing plant under construction in St. Joseph.

Police Chief Mike Hirter says in addition to the death one person is critically injured. But the chief also says that rescue workers believe they have accounted for everyone inside the Triumph Foods plant.

Hirter says the explosion might have been caused by a welding torch. The blast ripped a 150-foot hole in the roof.

Do go read the original. It’s not too often that a major news site gives its readers one-click search capability for the phrase “pork processing plant.”