Flash fire injures worker in Dorchester manhole
By Globe Staff
An NStar contractor working in a manhole on Freeport Street in Dorchester received a non-life-threatening injury in a flash fire this morning, the Boston fire department said.
Firefighters raced to the scene after a 911 call at 9:52 a.m. The injured man was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital for treatment of burns, said fire department spokesman Steve MacDonald.
MacDonald said a flash fire is a large electrical arc or spark.
Michael McNally, president of Maverick Construction Corp., the NStar contracting company, said the worker's injuries were non-life-threatening, mainly burns to his hands. The worker was removing some old cable when the accident happened.
“We pull hundreds of thousands of feet of cable for this company ... without incident,” he said. “Until the final investigation, I really can’t speculate on what happened.”
