Two Workers Die After Being Buried in a 60-foot Coal Pile Collapse at Colorado Plant

Xcel Energy's Comanche Generating Station, a 1410 megawatt, coal-fired power plant. Andy Cross/The Denver Post/TNS

By Shelly Bradbury and Kieran Nicholson From The Denver Post

DENVER—The bodies of two workers who were buried in coal pile collapse at the Comanche power plant in Pueblo have been recovered.

The incident happened at about 8:40 a.m. at the Comanche Generating Station in Pueblo, fire spokesman Erik Duran said. A 911 caller reported that multiple people were trapped in coal “following a landslide,” he said.