A worker was killed by an exploding tire at John Wayne Airport in Southern California

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A worker at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California, was killed on Tuesday after a bicycle where he was performing maintenance work exploded, the Associated Press reported.
The explosion occurred while maintenance was being performed by two employees on a bicycle utilized for a jet bridge, a structure that connects the terminal construction.
The unidentified employees weren’t employees of John Wayne Airport. They worked to get a builder called JBT.
Neither the airport JBT was immediately available for comment on the issue.

A worker at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California, was killed on Tuesday after a bicycle where he was performing maintenance work exploded, the Associated Press reported.

The incident took place Tuesday evening about 11:30 p.m. local time inside a workshop in the airport’s terminal building, the regional CBS News affiliate, KCBS reported. See the rest of the narrative at Business Insider

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