Employees Injured In Rail Car Repair Facility Explosion

Seven people were taken to local hospitals after an explosion inside a rail car repair building in rural Kansas on Thursday afternoon, according to a company spokesman. The injured suffered from burns, smoke inhalation and one possible back injury from the rail car explosion at the GBW Railcar Services site in northeast Kansas, said Atchison County Emergency Management in a statement posted on its Facebook page. The company said that seven employees were being evaluated at area hospitals.