Posted on 10/28/2019 12:20:54 PM PDT by luvie
ECTOR COUNTY, Texas — A husband and wife are dead as a result of H2S gas poisoning on October 25.
According to the Ector County Sheriff's Office, Jacob Dean, 44, was called out by Aghorn Energy to the 2200 block of W. 49th Street to check a pump house.
When he had not returned home after some time, his wife, Natalee Dean, 37, started calling her husband. Knowing the location of the house, she decided to drive out and check on him.
Natalee brought the couple's two children in the car with her.
(Excerpt) Read more at newswest9.com ...
yep. anyone who has ever worked a rig knows sour gas.
There was a puppy running around the rig when they punched down..... he caught a lungful of H2S and died on the spot.
The guys with beards were sharpening their case knives and shaving on the spot. EVERYONE wore a mask.
Serious business.
That is how I learned about it.
In the oilfield, yes. But for other uses, not necessarily.
https://www.badgerladder.com/basic-aluminum-pump-jack-package/
Really just joking with you. But you are correct with
oilfield equipment.
Take care and have a good evening/night.
That stinks...
You too. have a great evening!
Anything over 20 ppm deadens the sense of smell almost immediately. This is also the threshold that will kill you depending on duration of exposure. More concentration means less exposure required to kill you.
H2S training is one of the first things we were sent to when I started working in the Permian Basin.
One field near Crain, Texas was sour but not enough to kill you but enough to smell in the air all over the area. Nothing electrical or metallic lasted very long in that town.
After all the environmentalism became rampant we called areas like Crain EFAs. Environmentally ___ Areas. Wink and Notrees, Texas had oiled sand greens on the golf course.
Mentone, Maljamar, Andrews, Seminole, Caprock, Pecos, Artesia, Hobbs etc. All garden spots of the Permian Basin Desert. That is just the north area.
The children were reportedly turned over to their grandparents [after being treated and released from the local hospital].
It is a true tragedy that this happened. One expert said in an alternate article that it only takes one breath of this stuff to kill you. They never had a chance once they got near that pump house and the door was opened.
I can’t believe that guy went out to a pump house....presumably for a well site...without his monitor. Could be, though, that by the time he opened the door he was a goner and the monitor would have been useless. Details keep coming out.
confined space supervisor and rescue team.
Yes, in very low amounts. Otherwise, the natural gas would kill you.
Sad story.
Thank you for finding this additional information. I posted in a hurry.
It was a pump house, supposedly housing a well head or something else pertaining to the oil well in that location.
Glad you weren’t one of the hands that went to collect that sample!
My chem lab was in the late 60s. We made it in a test tube with something in it called "Aitch-Tu-Ess" heated in a test tube. We fed the actual H2S it into what we wee testing through a glass tube. Not sure of the spelling and that's no joke. It was printed on the label of the jar. It looked like green eraser shavings. We were going to steal some and make a big smelly mess, but the lab guy put it away before we could steal it.
Look at Talboys Laboratory Equipment Catalog on page 170. "Aitch-Tu-Ess" is still made.
We didn't take any precautions with the H2S probably because the quantity was small. Or they were stupid.
I believe you spelled it correctly. I was trying to think of that product and I remember it the way you do.
Yes, I live here, and the astonishment comes from the fact that the guy should have had a monitor when he went to check at that pump house and he must not have. I’ve heard of that kind of thing nearly all my life. Having it within city limits is rather unsettling....but maybe that far west is under county jurisdiction and maybe not that populated.
I know it’s hours after I posted it..but pinging the Texas list.
I saw that earlier today.
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