COLUMBIANA, Ala. -- Officials have released the identity of a worker killed when a gasoline pipeline serving the Southeast exploded, sparking a fire that was still burning more than two days later.
as saying that 48-year-old Anthony Lee Willingham died in Monday's explosion in Columbiana, Alabama.
Willingham of Heflin was a member of a nine-person crew working on repairs to the pipeline following an earlier spill. State officials and line owner Colonial Pipeline have said a piece of excavation equipment hit the pipeline, causing the explosion and fire.
One of Anthony Willingham's daughters told WSFA-TV that her father was a welder and heavy machinery worker for L.E. Bell Construction of Heflin.
Evans said Willingham's body was recovered Tuesday. Four other workers were injured.
