BRUNSWICK — A West Bath couple sustained minor burns and other injuries Monday morning when their 36-foot boat exploded while refueling at the New Meadows Marina on Bath Road.

Todd Stead, 42, of West Bath, and his 40-year-old girlfriend — whose name was unavailable at press time — were refueling the boat — the “Hayley Brooke” — at the dock just before noon when the vessel “exploded,” sending debris — and the woman — flying into the air, witnesses told Maine Marine Patrol Officer Scott Couture.

The woman was found on the dock with burns and injuries to her lower extremities, and Stead sustained burns and other injuries, Couture said. Both were transported to Mid Coast Hospital. Both were treated and released, a hospital spokesman said today.

The woman’s 9-year-old daughter was nearby on the dock at the time of the incident and was uninjured.

Brunswick, West Bath, Bath and Topsham firefighters responded to the scene, and assisted marina workers who floated booms to contain approximately 48 gallons of fuel that spilled into the New Meadows River.

The Maine Department of Marine Resources and De-partment of Environmental Protection were notified, and investigators from the Maine Fire Marshal’s Office were on scene later in the day, Couture said.

“We’re lucky we didn’t have two fatalities,” Deputy Chief Jeff Emerson of the Brunswick Fire Department said at the scene.

Couture said the exact cause of the explosion is unclear, but that Stead “said he had some engine trouble and it had been running rough.”

bbrogan@timesrecord.com