{"id":241197,"date":"2026-05-22T23:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T23:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241197\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T23:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T23:28:07","slug":"at-least-16-injured-after-major-explosion-at-nyc-shipyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241197\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 16 injured after &#8216;major explosion&#8217; at NYC shipyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A fire followed by a &#8220;major explosion&#8221; at a New York City shipyard has left at least 16 people injured, according to city fire department officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The blast happened at about 4:20 p.m. local time at a shipyard on Staten Island, the city\u2019s southernmost borough. The explosion happened after firefighters were called to the scene at 3:30 p.m. after reports of workers being trapped in a confined space, according to FDNY.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At least 16 people were injured in the incident and taken to local hospitals. Three people had serious injuries: two firefighters and one non-firefighter. Two firefighters had moderate injuries, department officials said. The rest of the injuries were considered minor.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fire officials did not immediately respond to requests for information on the cause of the blast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2026\/05\/22\/nyc-shipyard-explosion\/90223921007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:At least 16 injured after &#039;major explosion&#039; at NYC shipyard;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;At least 16 injured after &#039;&quot;}\" class=\"link \">At least 16 injured after &#8216;major explosion&#8217; at NYC shipyard<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire followed by a &#8220;major explosion&#8221; at a New York City shipyard has left at least 16&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[195,9,24,56,63,65,64,94238],"class_list":["post-241197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-firefighters","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-shipyard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}