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Two Colorado workers with a Grand Junction specialty-drilling company were killed and a third suffered minor injuries last week in an underground explosion at a dam in Oklahoma. Officials have not released the names of the employees of DA Smith Drilling Co. who died in last Thursdayâs accident at the Robert S. Kerr Dam east of Tulsa. However, a death notice in todayâs Sentinel lists Grand Junction resident Hayden Tucker, 22, a drillers assistant, as having died in Oklahoma on Thursday. The hydroelectric dam creates 12,000-acre Lake Hudson, according to the Grand River Dam Authority,...
A third worker managed to escape and was taken to the hospital.
An explosion at the Kerr Dam near Locust Grove occurred around 6pm Thursday The workers were doing core-sample drilling as part of routine maintenance The workers likely encountered methane gas when the explosion occurred Attempts for rescuers to reach the trapped workers were unsuccessful Their bodies were recovered from the shaft around 4:30am on Friday A third worker escaped after the explosion and was taken to the hospital