Three Injured, Two Missing after OH Power Plant Collapse

A massive collapse of a former power plant in Ohio has left three people injured and two people unaccounted for Wednesday.

The incident happened at about 9 a.m. at the former Killen Generating Station in Adams County, WLWT-TV reports. Firefighters from multiple agencies, including a Hamilton County search and rescue team, responded to the collapse.

The building was being demolished when the plan'ts awning collapsed. One person was rescued by crews after being trapped in the rubble for hours, and other emergency workers have been trying to locate two other people who are still missing. 

“It’s the demolition people (who were involved),” Rogers said. “Next week, they were preparing to take that building down and those stacks, so this was some kind of preparation to take that building down.”

Two other people also were taken to the hospital with unspecified injuries. 

The plant had been a coal-fired generating station that opened in 1982. It closed in May 2018, and the plant's demolition has been going on for a few months, according to WLWT.