2nd person in Tomahawk mill accident has died

By the Associated Press

CREATED Jul. 30, 2012

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TOMAHAWK, Wis. (AP) -- The second person injured in an accident at a Tomahawk area packaging plant has died.

Lincoln County authorities say 29-year-old Dustin Dean Hale died over the weekend at Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minn.

Hale and 47-year-old Dennis Gougeon suffered severe burns when fly ash ignited at the Packaging Corp. of America plant July 17. Gougeon died shortly after the accident.

WSAW-TV (http://bit.ly/P8SkCL ) says the Michigan men were contractors at the mill. They were working for Inland Systems, an industrial cleaning company from Ontonagon, Mich.

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Information from: WSAW-TV, http://www.wsaw.com