The demolition of an old power plant in Bakersfield on Saturday morning went badly off script when a man was seriously injured by large shards of flying debris, police said.
At 6 a.m. a crowd of several thousand people had gathered to watch the planned implosion of a shuttered, steam-generated power plant owned by Pacific Power and Electric, according to police and Denny Boyles, a spokesman for the power company.
The curious onlookers all stood behind a 1,000-foot safety perimeter put up by the demolition company that Pacific Power and Electric had hired for the job, Boyles said.
When all was ready, explosive charges placed at critical points in the building were detonated in a predetermined pattern meant to bring it down on itself in a heap of rubble and a cloud of dust.
In the moments after the structure fell, a police officer patrolling the event heard a man screaming nearby. Pieces of metal ejected from inside the plant during the implosion had struck a 43-year-old man, severing part of one leg, and caused serious injuries to another spectator, Tunnicliffe said.
At least two other people in the area suffered minor lacerations from metal pieces. Vehicles parked nearby were hit as well.
The seriously injured man was transported to a nearby hospital and later flown by helicopter to Fresno for further treatment, according to Tunnicliffe, who added that the man's condition was not known.
Police recovered one piece of metal that measured about a half-foot long and weighed a few pounds, Tunnicliffe said. The fragment that injured the man had been taken by a spectator, he said.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with this man and the others who received injuries," Boyles said. "As a company we are deeply saddened."
After previously tearing down other parts of the plant that had been out of use since 1986, the decison was made to implode two remaining steel boiler towers that stood 140-feet-tall, Boyles said.
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