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The Denver Post
National
Shelly Bradbury and Kieran Nicholson

Two workers die after being buried in a 60-foot coal pile collapse at Colorado plant

DENVER — The bodies of two workers who were buried in coal pile collapse at the Comanche power plant in Pueblo have been recovered.

The incident happened at about 8:40 a.m. at the Comanche Generating Station in Pueblo, fire spokesman Erik Duran said. A 911 caller reported that multiple people were trapped in coal “following a landslide,” he said.

At about 4:30 p.m. the bodies of two men, one in his 20s and the other in his 30s, were recovered from “beneath 60-feet of coal,” Duran said.

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