The call came in to 911 at 6:06 p.m. Thursday. First responders were needed in Trent after a pipe explosion at a local worksite.
“From what we have been told, they were attempting to release pressure in a line and when attempting it the pipe exploded. That’s the extent of what we know,” Sheriff Troy Wellman told the Moody County Enterprise.
Wellman said he cannot recall a workplace accident of this scale in nearly 30 years of local law enforcement. Four people were injured. Three were taken by ambulance to area hospitals, while the fourth — Austin Otto, of Egan — was airlifted to a Sioux Falls hospital…