A worker digging a trench on a northern Colorado ranch hit a high-pressure gas line, sparking an explosion that sent flames several hundred feet into the air and touched off a small grass fire. The Weld County Sheriff's office tells The Greeley Tribune that the worker was not injured, but the trenching machine was destroyed.
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