Mount Prospect worker burned in flash fire dies

A Mount Prospect worker injured in a chemical fire earlier this month near Willowbrook has died, authorities said.

Luis Macias, 29, died Sunday at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, a Cook County medical examiner’s office spokeswoman said.

Macias and two other workers were burned around 3 p.m. on Aug. 9 while working in the basement of an apartment complex on Hyacinth Drive in an unincorporated area near Willowbrook, said DuPage County sheriff’s spokeswoman Dawn Domrose. She did not know the condition of the other two workers, what company they worked for, or a cause for the fire.

A spokesman for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration said officials have an open investigation on the fire.

An autopsy for Macias is scheduled for today.