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Worker
who was injured in Kentucky factory blaze dies
Tuesday,
Feb. 25, 3003 The Tennessean
A worker who was burned in a Kentucky insulation factory fire last week died over the weekend at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, officials said.
Jimmy Lemmings, 42, died Sunday afternoon from complications from burns, hospital spokesman Clinton Colmenares said.
Lemmings was among those critically injured in the blast Thursday, some with burns over 70% to 90% of their bodies, at CTA Acoustics in Corbin, Ky.
As of yesterday, 10 workers remained in critical condition.
Lemmings was one of six patients from the explosion who were taken to the burn unit at Vanderbilt. Colmenares said four men remained in critical condition and one woman was listed as stable.
The other seriously burned workers were in the burn center at the University of Kentucky Hospital in Lexington.
The explosion and fire ravaged the insulation factory in Corbin, in southern Kentucky.
It began near a furnace where raw fiberglass is mixed with a resin and molded into sheets.
The blaze sent black smoke billowing through residential areas, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate temporarily.
Officials with the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are studying the cause of the blast. Their findings are not expected for several weeks.
—Staff and wire reports
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