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Just read the following on iwon.com this morning.
MEDINA, Ohio (Reuters) - An antique steam-powered tractor exploded on Sunday at a county fairground here, killing four men and injuring about 35 to 40 people, including children, officials said.
Four men were killed by the blast and dozens more were injured when metal shrapnel and hot oil spewed from the machine, causing severe burns, lacerations and broken bones, police and hospital officials said.
Officials told CNN that the blast occurred without warning, gushing hot oil 50 to 75 yards, injuring spectators.
A nursing supervisor at the Akron Children's Hospital Medical Center in Akron, Ohio, where eight people were being treated, said she heard reports that children were riding the machine when it blew up. Police could not confirm the reports.
Among those hurt were many children, and at least one police officer, said the nursing supervisor, who declined to give her name.
"We have a set of sisters and their grandfather," she said. "We have a set of brothers. We have a 12-year-old boy. All of them we are considering in serious condition until we complete our triage. I was told that one of the adult patients was incubated with burns of at least 50 percent".
A spokeswoman for the Medina General Hospital said 17 people were being treated there.
Other people were sent to six or seven other area hospitals, the spokeswoman said.
Police said they would hold a 7:30 a.m EDT press conference to provide an update on their investigation into the blast.
The locomotive is part of an exhibit of old engines at the fair, which opened on Sunday. Medina is located about 25 miles southwest of Cleveland.
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MEDINA, Ohio (Reuters) - An antique steam-powered tractor exploded on Sunday at a county fairground here, killing four men and injuring about 35 to 40 people, including children, officials said.
Four men were killed by the blast and dozens more were injured when metal shrapnel and hot oil spewed from the machine, causing severe burns, lacerations and broken bones, police and hospital officials said.
Officials told CNN that the blast occurred without warning, gushing hot oil 50 to 75 yards, injuring spectators.
A nursing supervisor at the Akron Children's Hospital Medical Center in Akron, Ohio, where eight people were being treated, said she heard reports that children were riding the machine when it blew up. Police could not confirm the reports.
Among those hurt were many children, and at least one police officer, said the nursing supervisor, who declined to give her name.
"We have a set of sisters and their grandfather," she said. "We have a set of brothers. We have a 12-year-old boy. All of them we are considering in serious condition until we complete our triage. I was told that one of the adult patients was incubated with burns of at least 50 percent".
A spokeswoman for the Medina General Hospital said 17 people were being treated there.
Other people were sent to six or seven other area hospitals, the spokeswoman said.
Police said they would hold a 7:30 a.m EDT press conference to provide an update on their investigation into the blast.
The locomotive is part of an exhibit of old engines at the fair, which opened on Sunday. Medina is located about 25 miles southwest of Cleveland.
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