PUEBLO COUNTY, Colo. — Authorities confirmed late Thursday afternoon that they found the bodies of two workers trapped underneath a pile of coal for several hours at Xcel Energy's Comanche Generating Station in south Pueblo.
"We found two men -- one in his 20s and one in his 30s," said Pueblo Fire Inspector Erik Duran. "We reached the first victim at around 3 p.m. and found the second victim shortly thereafter."
Duran said that the bodies were recovered and taken from the scene by at 4:30 p.m.
He also said that the victims worked for Savage, a subcontractor for Xcel Energy, and were seen walking up an 80-foot-high coal pile just after 8:30 a.m.
"There was an eyewitness who saw them there and then saw them disappear," Duran said. "We don't know why they were there or what their jobs were."
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