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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: LUV W

I’m sorry for the family. I learned a lot from this post though, thanks for posting it LUV W!


21 posted on 10/28/2019 12:44:17 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: LUV W

0.03 ppm
Can smell. Safe for 8 hours exposure

4 ppm
May cause eye irritation. Mask must be used as it damages metabolism.

10 ppm
Maximum exposure 10 minutes. Kills smell in 3 to 15 minutes. Causes GAS EYE and throat injury. Reacts violently with dental mercury amalgam fillings.

20 ppm
Exposure for more than 1 minute causes severe injury to eye nerves.

30 ppm
Loss of smell, injury to blood brain barrier through olfactory nerves

100 ppm
Respiratory paralysis in 30 to 45 minutes. Needs prompt artificial resuscitation. Will become unconscious quickly (15 minutes maximum)

200 ppm
Serious eye injury and permanent damage to eye nerves. Stings eye and throat.

300 ppm
Loses sense of reasoning and balance. Respiratory paralysis in 30 to 45 minutes

500 ppm
Asphyxia! Needs prompt artificial resuscitation. Will become unconscious in 3 to 5 minutes. Immediate artificial resuscitation is required.

700 ppm
Breathing will stop and death will result if not rescued promptly, immediate unconsciousness. Permanent brain damage may result unless rescued promptly.


22 posted on 10/28/2019 12:44:44 PM PDT by IC Ken (Stop making stupid people famous)
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To: DeFault User

It is detectable at very low concentrations. It is common in a lot of oil/gas fields in West Texas/Eastern New Mexico. It deadens your sense of smell at elevated exposures. The problem is if you aren’t wearing a monitor and the smell disappears, you don’t know if you are out of the “cone” or your sense of smell has been deadened. I worked in those areas for many years and saw a lot of people killed when they opened the hatch to gauge tanks at the tank batteries. One sniff and they were dead, as the concentrations in the tanks were extremely elevated. My brother wrote the H2S regulation for the Texas Railroad Commission, the agency that regulates the oil and gas industry in Texas.


23 posted on 10/28/2019 12:45:27 PM PDT by TStro (Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6)
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To: LUV W

ha. Wasn’t your mistake, it was mine.


24 posted on 10/28/2019 12:45:31 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Inyo-Mono

It’s used in the tempering of glass.
The most dangerous chemical I ever worked with. Though never had a problem.


25 posted on 10/28/2019 12:47:24 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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26 posted on 10/28/2019 12:49:59 PM PDT by deport
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To: DeFault User
We used to use H2S as a reagent in chemistry classes. It required special venting because of the overwhelming stench if nothing else. I don’t understand how anybody could get close to that smell.

We get it wafting up from the sewers on a routine basis. The stench is pretty distinctive, but sewer gas is obviously not lethal in the amounts the typical passerby inhales at the street level. I think this couple may not have been aware of the industrial nature of the source. I recall someone having used a few ampoules to clear out a classroom, as a practical joke.

As usual, it's the dosage that makes the poison.

27 posted on 10/28/2019 12:49:59 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: marktwain

Isn’t that the stuff they add in small amounts to natural gas to give it the “rotten egg” smell so that you know when there is a gas leak?


28 posted on 10/28/2019 12:52:33 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: mrsmith

Didn’t know that, thanks for the info.


29 posted on 10/28/2019 12:55:38 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: LUV W
The article posted was such a poorly written article that I went looking for an alternative one.

Gas company employee, wife die after Hydrogen Sulfide gas poisoning
Jacob and Natalee Dean died after being poisoned by hydrogen sulfide gas. (Source: Facebook)

Gas company employee, wife die after Hydrogen Sulfide gas poisoning

30 posted on 10/28/2019 12:58:16 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: LUV W
I drilled H2S contaminated oil wells for Exxon in Forsan, Texas back in the late '80s and early '90s. We had to keep Kelly Respirator Rigs on site and be able to get them on ,purged and operating in under 30 seconds.

That whole part of the Permian Basin (Big Springs, Midland, Odessa) produces Hydrogen Sulfide gas. It will ignite at around 500 degrees F. A cigarette burns at 1200+ degrees. It rapidly destroys one's sense of smell. At 100 PPM you are in real trouble. At 200 PPM you're a ghost.

31 posted on 10/28/2019 12:59:56 PM PDT by Free in Texas (Celebrate diversity. Own firearms of every caliber.)
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To: Boogieman

No Mercaptan is the odorant added to methane (natural gas). However it has sulfide in it which gives it a smell not unlike H2S.


32 posted on 10/28/2019 1:00:16 PM PDT by IC Ken (Stop making stupid people famous)
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To: Robert DeLong

Agree.... Don’t find any house at that location but do find a oil pump
working there. They are sometimes called a horse or donkey pump.


33 posted on 10/28/2019 1:06:58 PM PDT by deport
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To: LUV W

I worked on a drilling rig in south Texas in my youth. We were trained in the dangers of Hydrogen Sulphide extensively. Up to the point that if the blowout preventers didn’t activate to set the well on fire and run as last case scenario.
On one we’ll we drilled we detected low levels when we reached the depth where the gas was to be produced. We ran casing, cemented it in and moved the rig to let the completion unit finish the well as usual.

When they were drilling the cement plug out one hand was out catching a sample of the cuttings and fell over dead. Another hand went out to help him and died.
The driller knew what it was and shut it in and drove off calling for help.
I never learned how they finished the hole but they did.


34 posted on 10/28/2019 1:07:16 PM PDT by DainBramage
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To: Inyo-Mono

Smells like rotten eggs. Chemistry classes use to make it during class, believe it or not. When my group took chemistry, we cancelled that little experiment.


35 posted on 10/28/2019 1:13:06 PM PDT by odawg
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To: Inyo-Mono

It’s a natural chemical that unfortunately comes with natural gas and crude oil. Smells like rotten eggs.


36 posted on 10/28/2019 1:14:08 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: Boogieman

No, those are mercaptans.


37 posted on 10/28/2019 1:15:00 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: Rockingham

“In pure form hydrogen sulfide is odorless. “

No, it smells like rotten eggs. You are thinking about natural gas or perhaps carbon monoxide.


38 posted on 10/28/2019 1:15:25 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: marktwain

At least as toxic as hydrogen cyanide. ...it is the smell of eggs...but our noses are very sensitive to it...so we can smell it as less than toxic levels...but if you smell it...GET OUTTA THERE PRONTO.


39 posted on 10/28/2019 1:36:54 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: Inyo-Mono; LUV W

Hydrogen Sulfide occurs naturally in crude oil and can be produced by sewage decomposing. Above a very low concentration, it will immediately take out a person’s olfactory sense. (If the concentration is high enough it kills your sense of smell almost instantly) At low concentrations it has the rotten egg smell similar to sulfur. Concentrations above IDLH levels it will render a person unconscious in seconds.

Oil Refineries and Sewage Treatment plants are where it is commonly found. The Oil Refineries process the hydrogen sulfide into pure sulfur and sell it.


40 posted on 10/28/2019 1:38:48 PM PDT by El Laton Caliente (NRA Life Member)
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