Two workers were airlifted to an Augusta burn center after an electrical fire broke out Thursday morning at a bitcoin mining facility near Soperton, according to Treutlen County Emergency Management Agency Director Just McNure.
About a dozen employees were at the facility when the fire began shortly after 10 a.m., McNure said. He said one of the injured workers suffered severe burns and estimated the person had burns covering at least 60% of their body.
“Basically the percentage of the body that is burned,” McNure said. “The first individual that we came across, his percentage was a lot higher than the second one, probably at least 60%, as kind of a rough estimate.”…