{"id":157540,"date":"2026-04-05T02:38:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/157540\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T02:38:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:38:29","slug":"man-flown-to-hospital-after-oxygen-tank-explosion-in-washington-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/157540\/","title":{"rendered":"Man flown to hospital after oxygen tank explosion in Washington County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">CANTON TOWNSHIP, Pa. \u2014 A man was flown to a hospital after an oxygen tank exploded in Washington County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Washington County dispatchers said emergency crews were called to the 100 block of Bench Avenue in Canton Township at 6:50 p.m. on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Canton Township Volunteer Fire Company said an oxygen tank exploded at that location.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Dispatchers said a man in his late 70s was flown to a Pittsburgh area hospital with burns. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">This is a developing story. Check back for updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CANTON TOWNSHIP, Pa. \u2014 A man was flown to a hospital after an oxygen tank exploded in Washington&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[27420,71355,71351,71357,3891,71354,73,75,74,71356,71352,71353],"class_list":["post-157540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-canton-township","tag-canton-township-explode","tag-canton-township-explosion","tag-canton-township-volunteer-fire-company","tag-explosion","tag-oxygen-tank-explosion","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-washington-county-explode","tag-washington-county-explosion","tag-washington-county-oxygen-tank-explosion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}