EDMONTON — A spokesman for an industrial safety service says four of the 12 workers injured in an oilwell blast in Alberta were emergency responders who work for his company.
David Yager with HSE Integrated says one of the responder’s clothes caught on fire and a colleague used his hands to extinguish the flames.
Yager says three of the four responders remain in hospital.
He says two of them should be released in the near future, but the man who badly burned his hands won’t be out any time soon.
HSE will carry out its own investigation in additional to a review by the province’s Occupational Health and Safety Department.
The explosion at a Husky Energy well near Robb on Monday happened when propane fumes ignited.