Last updated 14:16, June 27 2018
One construction worker was killed and a dozen others were injured after an explosion at an addition to a Texas hospital in the US on Tuesday (Wednesday, NZ time), authorities said.
Bob Harrell, the local emergency manager, said all of those killed or injured were construction workers and not hospital staff or patients.
The incident took place at a construction site at the 25-bed hospital in Gatesville in the US state of Texas.
The explosion knocked out power for a large portion of the city.
Witnesses said an electric generator inside an uncompleted hospital expansion exploded, spreading shrapnel. However, Dave Byrom, the hospital's chief executive, said the blast possibly started with a gas line.
The explosion caused part of the construction project to collapse, Harrell said.
Those injured were taken to trauma centres in the Texas city of Temple, and those sustaining severe burns were airlifted 110 miles (177 km) northeast to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Harrell said.
Three or four were in critical condition, said Dr Jeff Bates, the hospital's chief medical officer.
Byrom said damage from the blast prompted the hospital to relocate its 12 existing patients to facilities in nearby cities, along with about 120 residents of the care homes that are part of the hospital campus.
A spokesman for the Texas-New Mexico Power Company said the explosion knocked out power for a large portion of the city. Spokesman Eric Paul said most service had been restored within three hours of the blast.