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Maintenance worker critically injured in 2019 Farmington blast transferred to rehab facility

Maintenance worker critically injured in 2019 Farmington blast transferred to rehab facility

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BOSTON, Massachusetts (WGAN) A maintenance worker critically injured in a blast in Farmington in September has started rehab.

Officials at Massachusetts General Hospital, where 61-year-old Larry Lord has been hospitalized since the blast which killed Fire Captain Michael Bell and injured several others, say Lord was transferred to a rehabilitation facility in Massachusetts.

Lord is credited with evacuating the LEAP Inc. building just before it was destroyed in a massive propane explosion.

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