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femmocrat

(28,394 posts) Sun Jul 7, 2013, 10:33 PM Jul 2013

Eight injured at a fracking plant in WVA today (July 7).

Doddridge County gas fracking explosion injures at least 7
By David Gutman

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- At least seven people were injured, four of them very seriously, after an explosion at a hydraulic fracturing operation at a gas well drilling pad in Doddridge County early Sunday morning, according to emergency officials.

Pat Heaster, the Doddridge County director of emergency services, said that four workers had potentially life-threatening burns. Those four were transferred to United Hospital Center in Bridgeport and then flown to West Penn Burn Center in Pittsburgh.

Heaster said that at least three, and possibly four, others were taken to area hospitals in private vehicles.

Kevin Kilstrom, an executive with Antero Resources, which owns the well, said that a total of five workers were eventually flown to the burn center in Pittsburgh.

A Doddridge County 911 dispatcher had earlier said that a total of eight people were injured in the explosion.

More details at link: http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201307070002

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Eight injured at a fracking plant in WVA today (July 7). (Original Post) femmocrat Jul 2013 OP

Man working for 40 HOURS at time of explosion! Told don't ask questions! Divernan Jul 2013 #1

Shame on these corporations Pat Riot Jul 2013 #2

& SHAME on the politicians who accept their bribes! Divernan Jul 2013 #3

Divernan

(15,480 posts)

1. Man working for 40 HOURS at time of explosion! Told don't ask questions!

Reply to femmocrat (Original post)

Mon Jul 8, 2013, 01:24 PM

Jul 2013

Eight injured in West Virginia gas well explosion
July 7, 2013 4:05 pm
By Andrew McGill / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

A natural gas well in West Virginia exploded early Sunday, injuring eight people.

Doddridge County Emergency Medical Services said the well, about an hour southwest of Morgantown in New Milton, ignited about 4 a.m. Four people were flown to West Penn Hospital's burn center; the other four were treated locally. It was unclear whether the victims were all workers.

One was Diana Arbogast, who sat with her family in the waiting room of West Penn Hospital's burn unit Sunday, waiting for news from the doctor. Her husband, Charlie, a rigger and trucker who was working at the well pad, received third-degree burns on his knees, forearms, hands and face, she said.

She said she hadn't spoken with him since Friday, when he left for work at the Antero Resources drill site. The 57-year-old had been gone for more than 40 hours before the explosion.

The next time she heard from her husband, he was riding in an ambulance to the hospital, she said. He couldn't speak to her, but a co-worker relayed the message: He loved her.

"You come to the rigs, you do what you do and you don't ask questions," Ms. Arbogast said.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/region/eight-injured-in-wva-gas-well-explosion-694602/#ixzz2YTXi3r9J

Are Obama & Corbett still talking about all the great jobs Fracking will bring to Americans?

Pat Riot

(446 posts)

2. Shame on these corporations

Reply to Divernan (Reply #1)

Mon Jul 8, 2013, 01:33 PM

Jul 2013

Profit over people no matter what.

Divernan

(15,480 posts)

3. & SHAME on the politicians who accept their bribes!

Reply to Pat Riot (Reply #2)

Mon Jul 8, 2013, 02:36 PM

Jul 2013

Whether campaign "donations" or promises of future board appointments.

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