Two dead after incident at gas pipeline worksite in southern Illinois

Two people are dead and two others injured in an industrial incident in southern Illinois on Monday.

According to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were called to the construction site of the Kinder Morgan natural gas pipeline in Grand Tower near the Mississippi River bridge.

They reported finding two people dead and two others with injuries. The injured were taken to an area hospital and later released.

The cause of death and identities of the two victims killed have not been released, pending family notification.

According to a statement from Kinder Morgan on Tuesday, the two people who died and the two who were injured were contract workers at a pipeline maintenance worksite on a segment of the Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America system. That work site is shut down for investigation of the incident.