DETROIT (AP) -- Workers at the Better Made Snack Foods factory in Detroit have been sent home after an explosion in the oil heating process for potato chips shook parts of the building.
Company Chief Executive Salvatore Cipriano says it appears pressure built up in a heat exchanger in one of the east side factory's four fryers about 9:30 a.m. Thursday.
The blast damaged some ceiling tiles and broke a few windows. Cipriano says no one was injured and potato chip-making operations likely will be stopped until Monday. The manufacturing operation typically is shut down on Fridays.
Cipriano says the work stoppage likely won't effect chip sales. The company has about 90,000 cases in its warehouse.
Better Made has been an institution in Detroit for about 80 years.
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