13 hospitalized after explosion at Ohio metal factory
More than a dozen people were hospitalized Monday after an explosion at an Ohio manufacturing plant that produces copper alloys. - Monkey Business Images/Dreamstime/TNS

More than a dozen people were hospitalized Monday after an explosion at an Ohio factory. The Oakwood Village Fire Department said 13 victims were taken to the MetroHealth Medical Center hospital shortly after 3 p.m. following an explosion at I. Schumann & Co., a manufacturing plant that produces copper alloys. Two of the people were described as being in critical condition. Another was injured but not hospitalized after the blast. “There was a loud explosion following debris flying at our building and on the roof and the whole building shook like an earthquake,” witness Stephenie Davis wrote o...