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Four injured in Tyler, Texas, refinery fire
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Four people were injured in an explosion and fire at Delek US Holdings Inc's 58,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) refinery in Tyler, Texas, on Thursday afternoon, according to a company spokesman.
All other employees at the refinery were accounted for, said Investor Relations Director Noel Ryan in a prepared statement. Delek employs 271 people in Tyler, according to a company website.
Two people were being flown by helicopter to Parkland Hospital, 104 miles west of Tyler, in Dallas, a Parkland spokeswoman said. Parkland has a large unit for treating burns.
The explosion rocked the area around the refinery at about 1345 CST (2:45 p.m. EST), said an employee at a nearby plant, who asked not to be identified.
"I was in a conference room and we felt the whole room shake," the worker said. "So we walked outside to make sure it wasn't anything at our facility and you could see the smoke plumes."
The fire was contained in a sat gas unit, which recovers substances like methane, ethane, butane, propane and hydrogen from gases generated in the refining process, Ryan said.
Susan Guthrie, communications director for the City of Tyler, said six city fire engines were called in to battle the blaze.
(Reporting by Erwin Seba, Bruce Nichols, Anna Driver and Eileen O'Grady; Editing by Christian Wiessner)
