CAUGHT ON CAMERA: A lightning strike at a grain elevator in Nebraska sent eight people to the hospital Friday morning. READ MORE
First responders were dispatched to the Central Valley Ag elevator in Shelby, located about 20 miles south of Columbus, around 8:15 a.m. The sheriff’s office said it appears lightning hit an elevator and injured nearby workers.
Eight employees for Kansas-based McPherson Concrete were there building a new elevator and were injured. All eight were transported to the hospital in Osceola. Their injuries were not serious, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office., the operations manager for McPherson Concrete said their crew was working on a tank near the building that was struck by lightning.
The operations manager said some of the eight crew members felt a light shock when the lightning strike happened, and seven of them have since been released from the hospital. Copyright 2023 KOLN via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. Gray Media Group, Inc. contributed to this report.
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