Tennessee Construction Site Blast Kills 2
A blasting accident at a highway construction site killed two workers Monday, hurling one across five lanes of morning rush-hour traffic.
Fourteen workers and motorists were injured by the explosion or in a series of traffic accidents it caused on Interstate 24.
“I saw two big old clouds of smoke, and I thought we were having an earthquake here in Nashville. The next thing I saw was a man flying across the road,” said truck driver David Lanford.
The construction crew was preparing dynamite to clear rock and widen the highway at the time.
“Everything just stopped,” said another driver, Michelle Messer. “It was real eerie.
The blast shattered the windshields of passing vehicles.
Killed were Ricky Green, 42, of Ashland City, and Scott Dustan, 40, of Antioch.
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