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Eight ADM personnel were taken to hospital via ambulance, with
the extent of their injuries unknown at the time, fire
department official Dan Kline said in an emailed statement,
adding that the fire that was now under control.
ADM said the incident happened at 7:11 p.m. CDT (0011 GMT) and
that the injured had been taken to a hospital.
The company said it did not have a confirmed cause of the
incident as of Sunday night.
The Decatur site, ADM's North American headquarters and its
largest facility globally, houses a soybean crushing plant and
one of the largest corn wet mills in the world.
It also has the capacity to produce 375 million gallons of
ethanol biofuel annually, making it the largest in the country,
according to the Renewable Fuels Association.
It was not immediately clear whether the blast would impact the
processing facilities. The company did not immediately respond
to a request for further comment.
(Reporting by Evelyn Nikhila S and Baranjot Kaur in Bengaluru;
Editing by Gerry Doyle and David Holmes)
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