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Last updated on Thursday, December 11, 2014
(BROWNSTOWN) - A man cleaning vents in a Brownstown steel factory Monday night suffered burns to his right hand, face and neck after a fire ignited.
Indiana Steel and Tube employee 33-year-old Mikeal Wilberding of Norman told Brownstown Police Cpl. Joe Kelly that he was on a scissor lift cleaning an exhaust vent when he blew aluminum powder onto hot oil.
That caused a fire and the building at 848 W. Sweet St. was full of smoke.
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