Two men were killed and nine others injured following an explosion at an oil drilling site in Loving County, Texas, US.
The incident occurred when workers were using heavy machinery to replace a wellhead at the production facility.
The site is owned by RKI Exploration & Production, although reports suggest that none of the company’s employees were at the site of the explosion.
Loving County sheriff Billy Hopper said that authorities received an emergency call on 30 April 2014 about the explosion near Orla, Texas.
"This is the first accident we’ve had like this in about a year," he added.
RKI spokesman Jeremy Fitzpatrick said that the Railroad Commission of Texas and the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration were investigating the incident.
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By GlobalDataHeadquartered in Oklahoma city, RKI Exploration & Production is engaged in the acquisition, development and exploitation of oil and natural gas properties primarily in the Permian Basin in West Texas and Southeast New Mexico and the Powder River Basin in Eastern Wyoming.
