- Shannon Weidemann | September 13, 2007 11:08 PM | McAllen, TX
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Workplace Injuries
A man working at an oilfield in Morton was killed on Thursday morning in Morton. The oilfield accident killed a 56-year-old man who works for North Premium Well Services. Yesterday morning, a crew was removing cycle rods from the ground. Those rods go into the ground to pump the oil out and as one was being removed, it got bent, snapped and instantly killed the victim. The accident is now...
- Shannon Weidemann | September 13, 2007 4:59 PM | Corpus Christi, TX
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Workplace Injuries
A 34-year-old worker at the Marathon Oil Refinery in Garyville, Louisiana died on Friday night. He was driving a company vehicle and somehow ended up in a retention pond. The man drowned in the pond. It is unknown what caused the oil refinery accident. An internal emergency response crew at the Garyville refinery arrived at the scene of the accident Friday about 11 p.m., Graves said....
- Shannon Weidemann | September 13, 2007 3:20 AM | Brownsville , TX
Category:
Workplace Injuries
A man was killed at an oil well in Piedmont, Oklahoma. He was an employee of Southwest Oilfield Construction. A team of three men were working at the site to pull a pipe out of the ground. The oilfield accident happened at the end of August. Goodwin says the large object -- possibly weighing as much as 1,800 pounds -- came up from the ground with the pipe and struck the platform where the...