MOSS POINT -- One person was killed and three others were injured in an explosion Monday at a fish processing plant on the Mississippi coast.
Omega Protein spokesman Ben Landry said it happened about 9:30 a.m. while employees of a subcontractor were working on two storage tanks and one of the tanks blew up.
Jackson County Coroner Vicki Broadus identified the dead worker as Jerry Lee Taylor II, 25, of Mobile, Alabama. Broadus said an autopsy will be conducted.
Injured were Josh Walls, 34, of E
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