The Price of Negligence: Lessons from the Aghorn H₂S tragedy
The oil and gas industry faced a sobering reality check in October 2019 when Jacob Dean, a worker at the site, responded to a routine pump alarm at an Aghorn Operating facility in Texas’ Permian basin. What followed was anything but routine. Dean was exposed to fatal concentrations of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) gas. When his wife, Natalee, entered the facility searching for him, she, too, fell victim to the invisible killer.
