DETROIT (WXYZ) — An employee was hospitalized after an explosion at the General Motors factory in Detroit on Thanksgiving Day.
It happened this afternoon at the Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Center on 2500 E Grand Boulevard.
A spokesperson for the Detroit Fire Department tells us that a cylinder in the factory exploded. That employee injured was transported to the hospital, but they are expected to make a full recovery.
At this time it's unclear how the explosion happened, but DFD confirmed to us that it was nothing EV related.
GM released a statement on Thursday afternoon that said, "An incident occurred at Factory ZERO earlier today, resulting in one employee being transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Safety is our overriding priority and we will continue to investigate the cause of the incident."
