科罗拉多州普韦布洛（美联社） - 当局在为期一天的搜索后说，周四在科罗拉多州南部的一家科罗拉多州燃煤发电厂上，一辆80英尺高（24米高）的煤堆在80英尺高（24米高）的煤炭堆中杀死了两名工人。受害者。
救援rs found the bodies of the two men buried beneath about 60 feet (18 meters) of coal in the towering pile at the Comanche Generating Station in Pueblo, said Erik Duran, spokesman for the Pueblo Fire Department.
Witnesses said the workers were standing about 30 feet (9 meters) up a slope of the pile when the slide occurred about 8:20 a.m., Duran said. Rescuers located the bodies at about 3 p.m. and later were able to recover them, he said.
Duran described the victims as a man in his 20s and another in his 30s. The names of the victims were withheld until relatives could be notified.
Witnesses reported that the accident happened on a feeder pile for the station’s coal-fired power plant, which is Colorado’s largest and is operated by Xcel Energy.
Xcel spokeswoman Lacey Nygard said the workers are employed by Savage, a Salt Lake City-based firm contracted by Xcel to operate and maintain the coal yard at Comanche and at other Xcel coal plants.
Xcel is working with Savage and the Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office to determine the cause of the accident, Nygard said.
Duran told reporters that Savage would provide additional information and that a company representative was en route to the scene. A spokesman for Savage could not be immediately reached after Duran announced that the victims had been found.
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