▶ 1 worker seriously injured… The most damage since 2013
Texas dairy farm fire accident[로이터=사진제공]
A massive explosion on a cattle farm in Texas killed 18,000 cows.
According to Associated Press and BBC reports on the 13th, an explosion believed to have been caused by overheating equipment occurred at the Southfork dairy farm near Dimit, Castro County, Texas, around 7:00pm on the 10th.
The explosion not only killed the cows on the farm, but also seriously injured a female worker who was trapped in the building at the time and was taken to hospital. The worker is said to be in an intensive care unit at the moment.
The Castro County Sheriff’s Office said: “When we arrived at the farm, it was confirmed that one person was trapped in the building and firefighters opened the building and rescued them.”
It is said that there were 19,000 cows on the farm at the time. Local media reported that most of them had died. According to USA Today, the number of cows that are sacrificed on this day is about 20% of the number of cows that are killed every day in the United States.
State fire authorities plan to investigate the specific cause of the fire.
The Animal Welfare Institute, which has been tracking fires on livestock farms since 2013, said it was “the deadliest accident on a dairy farm in the last 10 years of tracking farm fires.”
According to the organization, the worst cow farm accident ever recorded was a fire at a farm in New York in 2020, when more than 400 cows died.
