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Husband and wife die after exposure to H2S gas in Ector Co., Texas
Newswest9 ^ | October 28, 2019 | Kirsten Geddes

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.

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KEYWORDS: deaths; ectorcounty; h2s; poisongas; texas
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To: DainBramage

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.


61 posted on 10/28/2019 4:12:37 PM PDT by mostly_lies
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To: Ikeon
Yes. It is a real problem in mines, especially coal mines.

That is how I learned about it.

62 posted on 10/28/2019 4:39:44 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: KittenClaws

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.


63 posted on 10/28/2019 4:50:50 PM PDT by deport
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To: Clay Moore

That stinks...


64 posted on 10/28/2019 4:52:02 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: deport

You too. have a great evening!


65 posted on 10/28/2019 4:56:46 PM PDT by KittenClaws ("There is no 1502 Johnson" ~ Joan Hamilton)
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To: SES1066

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.


66 posted on 10/28/2019 4:58:35 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
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To: All

The children were reportedly turned over to their grandparents [after being treated and released from the local hospital].


67 posted on 10/28/2019 5:24:26 PM PDT by luvie (The bravery and dedication of our troops in keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American!)
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To: Sawdring

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.


68 posted on 10/28/2019 5:26:18 PM PDT by luvie (The bravery and dedication of our troops in keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American!)
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To: TStro

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.


69 posted on 10/28/2019 5:28:49 PM PDT by luvie (The bravery and dedication of our troops in keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American!)
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To: marktwain

confined space supervisor and rescue team.


70 posted on 10/28/2019 5:30:29 PM PDT by Ikeon (Oops.. did I say that?)
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To: Boogieman

Yes, in very low amounts. Otherwise, the natural gas would kill you.


71 posted on 10/28/2019 5:30:40 PM PDT by luvie (The bravery and dedication of our troops in keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American!)
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To: LUV W
I have occasion to go to back end processing plants. Everybody and I mean everybody has a monitor on all the time.

Sad story.

72 posted on 10/28/2019 5:31:05 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Beware the homeless industrial complex.)
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To: Robert DeLong

Thank you for finding this additional information. I posted in a hurry.


73 posted on 10/28/2019 5:36:00 PM PDT by luvie (The bravery and dedication of our troops in keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American!)
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To: deport

It was a pump house, supposedly housing a well head or something else pertaining to the oil well in that location.


74 posted on 10/28/2019 5:38:22 PM PDT by luvie (The bravery and dedication of our troops in keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American!)
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To: DainBramage

Glad you weren’t one of the hands that went to collect that sample!


75 posted on 10/28/2019 5:39:28 PM PDT by luvie (The bravery and dedication of our troops in keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American!)
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To: DeFault User
We used to use H2S as a reagent in chemistry classes. It required special venting

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.

76 posted on 10/28/2019 5:42:46 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWTR,FCBK,NYT,WaPo,Hwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antfa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP)
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To: Right Wing Assault

I believe you spelled it correctly. I was trying to think of that product and I remember it the way you do.


77 posted on 10/28/2019 5:47:07 PM PDT by DeFault User
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To: SanchoP

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.


78 posted on 10/28/2019 5:51:54 PM PDT by luvie (The bravery and dedication of our troops in keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American!)
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To: Arrowhead1952; NYTexan; mylife; Eaker; TheMom; laurenmarlowe; El Gato; RebelTex; smokingfrog; ...

I know it’s hours after I posted it..but pinging the Texas list.


79 posted on 10/28/2019 7:08:15 PM PDT by luvie (The bravery and dedication of our troops in keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American!)
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To: LUV W

I saw that earlier today.


80 posted on 10/28/2019 7:11:37 PM PDT by jospehm20
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