PORT SHELDON, Mich., Feb. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Consumers Energy is investigating the collapse this morning of an outdoor crane onto a building at its J.H. Campbell Generating Complex. The 300-foot crane boom fell onto the building housing the complex's Unit 3 power plant about 6:50 a.m. today. Neither the crane nor the generating unit were in operation at the time of the incident. About 100 Consumers Energy employees and contract employees were inside the Campbell Unit 3 building at the time of the incident. One contract employee suffered non-life threatening injuries and was treated and released from a local hospital. The cause of the incident is under investigation. All employees have been accounted for and all non-essential personnel from Unit 3 were sent home for the day. Campbell Unit 3 is in the midst of an outage for the installation of equipment to further reduce emissions. Operations at Campbell Units 1 and 2 were unaffected and those units continue to generate electricity. The Campbell Complex is a coal-fired electric generating facility comprised of three power plants capable of producing up to 1,440 megawatts of electricity. That's enough power to meet the residential, commercial, and industrial needs of about a million people. Consumers Energy, the principal subsidiary of CMS Energy, provides natural gas and electricity to nearly 6.5 million of Michigan's 10 million residents in all 68 Lower Peninsula counties. For more information about Consumers Energy, visit our Website at http://www.consumersenergy.com/ DATASOURCE: Consumers Energy CONTACT: Media Dennis McKee of Consumers Energy, +1-616-738-3360 Web site: http://www.consumersenergy.com/

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