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A welder died Thursday night at Swedish Medical Center, hours after he was critically injured when vapors inside a fuel tank exploded in Englewood. Family members identified the man as 33-year-old Erik Donaldson of Arvada.
The 21,000-gallon tank was about half-full of fuel and water when a fireball erupted from a vent “and caught him,” said Englewood Fire Department spokeswoman Marla Wilcox.
The explosion happened about 4:30 p.m. at ACI Services, a 10-year-old environmental remediation and construction firm at 2695 S. Raritan St. Other workers witnessed the blast and began CPR before rescuers arrived, Wilcox said.
