TOKYO, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- Nine workers fainted on Monday due to a lack of oxygen at a construction site of a biomass power plant in Japan's Shizuoka Prefecture, local media reported.

Two male workers are now in severe conditions, with one in a state of cardiopulmonary arrest and another unconscious, said the local broadcaster Shizuoka Shimbun.

Around 4:30 p.m. (0730 GMT) Monday, the local fire department received a report from the biomass power plant under construction in the Port of Omaezaki that a worker fainted in the tank.

It was later found that nine people during welding work lost consciousness in a large tank with a depth of about 25 meters.

The other seven workers have been taken to the hospital, local reports cited the fire department as saying.

Omaezakikou Biomass, the power plant, attributed the cause of the accident to the decrease in oxygen concentration at the work site, local media reported.

The biomass power plant, now under construction on a landfill across the cities of Omaezaki and Makinohara, generates power by steam via burning wooden biomass fuel such as pellets with a boiler, and the operations are expected to commence in July this year. Enditem

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