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2 people hospitalized in northeast Nebraska plant accident

ambulance-lightsNORFOLK, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say two people were injured in an industrial accident at Nucor Steel in Norfolk.

Firefighters were called Thursday night to the plant. Norfolk Fire Chief Scott Cordes says the two people were injured in what first responders described as an industrial accident that resulted in burns.

Cordes says one person was flown to a Lincoln burn hospital and the other was driven to Faith Regional Health Services in Norfolk.

Officials have not released the identities of the victims or their medical conditions. A Nucor spokesman acknowledged that an accident had occurred, but decline to provide the newspaper any details of the accident.

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