{"id":245904,"date":"2026-05-28T01:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T01:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/245904\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T01:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T01:56:11","slug":"cause-of-deadly-nyc-shipyard-explosion-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/245904\/","title":{"rendered":"Cause of deadly NYC shipyard explosion revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The massive explosion at a Staten Island commercial shipyard last week that killed a worker was determined to be accidental, caused by flammable paint vapors, the FDNY revealed Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPreliminary findings indicate the fire involved the ignition of flammable vapors associated with industrial-grade paint within the confined space,\u201d the fire department <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FDNY\/status\/2059632757630787723?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">wrote on X<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39508463\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2277182954.jpg\" alt=\"Firetrucks and a fire investigation vehicle gathered outside a large brick building.\" class=\"wp-image-39508463\"  \/>Firefighters and emergency crews responded to an explosion and fire at a shipyard on Staten Island on May 22, 2026. Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39508471\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2277182948.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters attend to the scene of an explosion at a Staten Island shipyard.\" class=\"wp-image-39508471\"  \/>Firefighters and emergency crews responded to an explosion and fire at a shipyard on Staten Island on May 22, 2026. Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The May 22 blast in Mariners Harbor<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/23\/us-news\/worker-killed-in-nyc-shipyard-blast-was-trapped-in-boats-belly-family-says\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> killed a boat worker <\/a>and injured 36 others, mainly first responders, after a barge exploded at a dry-dock located around 3075 Richmond Terrace.<\/p>\n<p>Of the injured, 31 were firefighters, four EMS personnel and one civilian, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion was reported by workers stuck in a confined space in the dry-dock. <\/p>\n<p>All injured personnel have been released from the hospital except one fire marshal in stable condition, FDNY said.<\/p>\n<p>Xiaoyuan Li, of Flushing, was identified by family as the sole fatality from the explosion. <\/p>\n<p>Li, 57, was a hard-working Chinese immigrant who died when he became \u201ctrapped\u201d in the belly of a boat while painting, his family said Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The massive explosion at a Staten Island commercial shipyard last week that killed a worker was determined to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[18565,3531,195,57,9,24,63,134,136,135,58],"class_list":["post-245904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-boats","tag-explosions","tag-firefighters","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245904","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=245904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}