Eight employees were injured in an explosion Sunday night at an ADM facility in Decatur and five of them remain hospitalized with injuries, according to an update provided by ADM and Decatur Fire Department officials.
That explosion happened around 7:11 p.m. at the East Plant within the ag giant's processing complex in Decatur. The East Plant remained shut down Monday and an adjacent corn processing plant was temporarily shut down as well.
The injured employees were taken to the hospital; no deaths have been reported as of Monday afternoon. Decatur Fire officials said six workers were initally taken to a local hospital via ambulance and four Medivac helicopters were used to transport some workers to trauma centers elsewhere "for a higher level of care."
ADM says they don't have a confirmed cause for the explosion yet.
This is the second dangerous incident to happen at ADM's East Plant in the past two weeks. Two firefighters suffered injuries while fighting a fire in a large building on site on Aug. 28.
