{"id":443762,"date":"2026-08-26T05:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T05:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/443762\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T05:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T05:30:20","slug":"employee-injured-in-explosion-at-southwest-fresno-business-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/443762\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee injured in explosion at southwest Fresno business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, August 25, 2026 11:52PM<\/p>\n<p>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=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; 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=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It happened at about 7 am Tuesday at the business off Cedar and Central avenues in southwest Fresno.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Fire crews say two workers were on the top of the silo at the time of the blast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">One of the workers was burned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The silo is 100 feet tall, but both workers were able to get down on their own.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The injured person was taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The company plans to unload the material out of the silo to figure out what caused the explosion.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, August 25, 2026 11:52PM An employee at an asphalt company is hospitalized with second-degree burns after an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[175803,155243,112,114,113,165077,22669,294,175802],"class_list":["post-443762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-175803","tag-burn-injuries","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-silo","tag-southwest-fresno","tag-timely","tag-worker-injured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443762","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=443762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}