By Angela K. Brown
The Associated Press
CLEBURNE, Texas — An emergency management official says a missing utility worker has been found dead several hours after a natural gas line erupted in north Texas.
Officials say utility workers accidentally hit the line near Cleburne on Monday, sending a massive fireball into the air.
Thirteen other workers had been accounted for. Some of them were injured and were taken to hospitals.
Authorities had to wait hours to walk through the area to look for the missing worker. They first had to make sure the fire was out and there was no danger.
Hood County Emergency Management Coordinator Brian Fine says the worker’'s body was found some distance from the blast site. The man’'s name was not immediately released.