Lucky Construction Worker Survives Incident at Wellsburg Bridge Site.
A construction worker is lucky to be alive following a fire at the Wellsburg Bridge construction site on Monday evening. It happened just before 5:45 p.m. as a team of workers from Flatiron was drilling horizontally under Route 2 when they struck a pocket of natural gas. Authorities say a worker was cutting a pipe with a torch when natural gas ignited inside of the pipe. “We contacted the gas company here, and Southwest Energy also, to try to find out who has the gas or did we hit somebody’s well or whatever,” said First Assistant Chief of the...
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