KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A man was hospitalized after he was injured while welding a fuel tank that later exploded and caught fire, the Lee's Summit Fire Department said.
About 4:20 p.m., the department responded to a fire in the 13000 Block of east 99 Street near south Noland Road.
The department said several callers reported an explosion and that a man was on fire.
Fire crews arrived at the scene to Black smoke coming from a metal barn that stores equipment and that houses several horses and other livestock.
Crews entered the building and extinguished the fire.
A preliminary investigation found the explosion unfolded as the man was welding on a diesel fuel transfer tank from a different truck to repair a leak.
The man was transported to an area hospital, but his condition wasn't immediately available.
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