Fracking explosion in Greene Co., SW PA. Worker missing, feared dead.

[femmocrat]

Worker missing in Greene County gas well blast
February 11, 2014 9:44 PM

By Molly Born and Sean D. Hamill / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

It is the worst fear of anyone who works on a natural gas well.

A spark or an error on the job results in a potentially deadly well fire that burns out of control, causing even more danger to the experts who have to be flown in to contain the blaze.

That’s the situation in Dunkard, Greene County, after something caused a Marcellus Shale gas well owned by Chevron to catch fire just before 7 a.m. Tuesday, leaving one employee with a minor injury and another worker missing and feared dead.

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More than 12 hours after an explosion that “sounded like a jet engine going five feet above your house,” as one neighbor put it, the fire, fueled by the well’s gas, continued to shoot flames and smoke into the air, causing a hissing sound that could be heard a quarter-mile away.


Video and more at link: http://www.post-gazette.com/local/south/2014/02/11/Gas-well-explodes-in-southeastern-Greene-County/stories/201402110126#ixzz2t4hq7faB

[blue neen]

1. It's a shame.

They can't even look for the missing worker.

[2naSalit]

2. That was

bound to happen sooner or later. Hope they find the missing worker but they might never find them.

Static electricity can set that stuff off. Most metals that are allowed anywhere near even vapors are supposed to be cast aluminum or brass because they don't spark when they strike a hard object. The vehicle can't be made of those materials but any number of things could have set it off, even a radio... especially like a two-way.