The Albany Department of General Services employee injured in an explosion at DGS headquarters on Aug. 4 has been identified as 47-year-old Anthony Hughes, who has worked for the city since 2006, according to the Civil Service Employees Association union.
Hughes rose through the ranks from a laborer to supervisor within the department. He suffered second- and third-degree burns over 30% of his body and remains in critical but stable condition at the burn unit at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse.
Jeffrey Hunt, president of the Supervisors, DGS Unit, was with Hughes in the immediate aftermath of the explosion…