(File Photo of an Ellwood City Police Car)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Ellwood City, PA) An electrical explosion occurred at the Ellwood City Forge in Ellwood City yesterday which sent two people that work there to the hospital. According to Ellwood City Fire Chief Rick Myers, around 11 a.m. yesterday, crews responded to Ellwood City Forge on Commercial Avenue for a reported electrical explosion. Meyers also confirmed that the power inside the whole facility got turned off and all of the other employees got sent home and a ground-level electrical room was where the explosion was contained. About an hour was the amount of time that firefighters were on scene during this incident. One person injured from this explosion suffered burns that were severe and that person was flown to a hospital in the Pittsburgh area for treatment. The other person that was injured from this explosion had injuries that were less severe and got taken to a local hospital to be evaluated. According to fire officials, the explosion occurred in a large fuse panel inside the facility. The cause of the explosion is unknown at this time and the investigation into this explosion is still ongoing.