NAMPA, Idaho (CBS2) — Amalgamated Sugar says there was an explosion Monday at one of its facilities in Nampa.
The communication department for the second-largest U.S. sugarbeet processor said the explosion happened in the sugarbeet pulp steam dryer at 7:45 a.m.
The company said five people were evaluated and treated with minor first aid, one went to the hospital and no one had life-threatening injuries.
Everyone involved in the explosion was wearing fire protective equipment, as they usually would when working with the steam dryer.
The company said there was "minimal property damage."
Production at the facility did not stop; the only change was a stop in drying sugarbeet pulp.
Amalgamated Sugar started in 1897. They grow sugarbeets on about 180,000 acres in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington.
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