Officials are investigating after a propane explosion in the parking lot outside the Comprehensive Care Management Center in the Bronx Tuesday killed one worker and forced the evacuation of the facility.

According to corporate parent Beth Abraham Family of Health Services, the blast happened around 10 a.m. inside a shed in the parking lot on White Plains Road.

The parking lot is located near the medical building on Olinville Avenue in Bronxdale.

Workers say the 38-year-old man was an employee at the medical facility.

He was taken to Jacobi Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

“After I left this place to buy something from Home Depot, I went next block and I heard boom. So I came back. I saw what happened, so I go to close the container, I go to move the garbage and I saw him. He was injured. After 15 minute he died,” said one witness at the scene.

The center’s workers and day patients were evacuated.

“All of the members of the staff, all of the patients that come here were evacuated safely to other locations that we have in the area,” said Beth Abraham Health Services Vice President Mary Wehrberger. “They’re being taken care of and we’re notifying the members’ families just to make sure they know they’re safe.”

The building behind the parking lot was also evacuated after the explosion shattered glass in some of the windows.

Consolidated Edison, the New York City Fire Department and the New York City Police Department are all investigating the incident.

(Source: NY1)