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A third worker has now died from injuries caused in a Chesapeake Energy Inc. oil well explosion that occurred around 3:30 pm, Wednesday, January 29 just south of Caldwell, Texas. According to Chesapeake, one worker died on-site and a second worker died from severe injuries the next...

A lawsuit filed on behalf of a Colorado man who died when a Quinto, Oklahoma oil rig exploded on January 22, 2018, makes new claims of negligence in addition to the safety failures cited in earlier complaints. According to a story from the Associated Press, “Parker Waldridge's family alleges...

A lawsuit filed in October 2018 alleges that the Quinton, Oklahoma oil rig explosion and fire that killed five men in January 2018, occurred during a risky drilling operation after the company ignored signs of impending danger. The accident claimed the highest death toll in a single drilling event...

Last January, five oil workers were killed in a fire and explosion at a Quinton, Oklahoma drilling rig. This was the deadliest drilling accident in the U.S. since 2010, when 11 workers died in the Gulf of Mexico on the Deepwater Horizon rig. Patterson Rig 219 was owned and operated by...