Emergency responders worked most of Thursday (7/15) afternoon to recover the body of a contract worker who was sucked into a intake pump at an LG&E power plant.
Louisville Metro police said late Thursday afternoon that their efforts turned into a recovery mission once first responders arrived on the scene. Firefighters from several departments were called to the Mill Creek Power plant at 14,600 Dixie Highway shortly after 1 pm. LG&E spokeswoman Chris Whelan said a two-person contract diving team consisting of a monitor and a diver were doing routine inspections when the monitor lost contact with the diver. The divers are from Bulldog Diving Inc.
According to the company’s website, the Mill Creek Generation Station is LG&E’s largest coal-fired power plant. It sits on 544 acres and went into operation in 1972 to meet an unprecedented increase for energy in the Louisville area.
Recovery operations continued into the evening and the investigation remains ongoing.
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