Deputies with the Lea County Sheriff’s Office got the call Tuesday, October 6 to an industrial incident involving a fire on a pipeline in the oilfield near U.S. Highway 176 and Bootleg Road around 1 p.m. Tuesday, where they found two people dead at the scene.
Investigators have been working the area trying to piece together what led to the fire and the deadly incident. They conducted a thorough investigation and processed the scene.
The Sheriff’s Office did not release the names of the victims pending notification of next of kin.
A fire rages in Lea County, New Mexico Tuesday after two workers died in the incident.
Source: KCBD
Meanwhile, there was another fatality in the oil and gas sector in New Mexico last month when a contract worker died after an incident at a natural gas midstream company site near Jal, according to Marathon Petroleum Corporation (MPLX).
City’s police said first responders got the call to the Marathon Petroleum facility around 4:15 p.m. after reports that a contractor suffered an injury.
The victim was a contractor who was working at an MPLX facility, when he suffered an injury Friday, September 18 at the site “during an incident.” Emergency workers transported him to a medical facility, where he ended up pronounced dead.