UPDATE 2.50pm

A Health and Safety Executive spokesman said they have started initial enquiries into the blaze

UPDATE: 10.41am

A spokeswoman for the Welsh Ambulance Services said that the injuries "were not thought to be life-threatening.”

She added two emergency ambulances and the Trust’s Hazardous Area Response Team attended the scene.

UPDATE: 10.37am

A spokesman for Gwent Police said one of the people who sustained facial burns has since been transferred to Morriston hospital, and the other person was released from PCH yesterday

He added the Health and Safety Executive has been informed and is leading the investigation.

UPDATE: 9.39am

TWO people were taken to hospital after a fire at a seating factory near Ebbw Vale.

One had with facial blistering and the other was suffering from smoke inhalation.

Both were taken to the Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil.

Firefighters were called to Sears Seating on the Rassau Industrial Estate at 2.50pm yesterday.

Eight engines from Tredegar, Brynmawr, Ebbw Vale, Aberbargoed, Rhymney, Whitchurch and New Inn attenede the blaze. They left at 6.01pm.

The blaze, which a spokesman for the fire service said they believed was accidental broke out in in machinery in the three storey building where they make foam seating.