{"id":443671,"date":"2026-08-26T03:28:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T03:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/443671\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T03:28:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T03:28:20","slug":"employee-injured-in-explosion-at-southwest-fresno-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/443671\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee injured in explosion at southwest Fresno business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An employee at an asphalt company is hospitalized with second-degree burns after an explosion at the top of a silo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It happened at about 7 am Tuesday at the business off Cedar and Central avenues in southwest Fresno.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fire crews say two workers were on the top of the silo at the time of the blast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One of the workers was burned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The silo is 100 feet tall, but both workers were able to get down on their own.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The injured person was taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The company plans to unload the material out of the silo to figure out what caused the explosion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An employee at an asphalt company is hospitalized with second-degree burns after an explosion at the top of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[175782,112,114,113],"class_list":["post-443671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-central-avenues","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}