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4 injured in DeSoto Parish oilfield accident

Posted: Apr 19, 2013 3:55 PM CDTUpdated: Apr 19, 2013 9:08 PM CDT

By Carolyn Roy

KINGSTON, LA (KSLA) –
3 workers on a DeSoto Parish oilfield site were critically injured Friday morning and another suffered minor injuries in a fall from a workover rig. It happened at around 9:50 a.m. on the EXCO oilfield location on Bradshaw Road in Kingston.

According to Niette, the workers were walking on a catwalk when it collapsed, dropping them some 30 feet on equipment below. There is no official cause for the equipment failure.

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