One dead, father injured in industrial incident
Published 4:16 pm Friday, November 4, 2016
- Emergency crews work on scene at Freeflow Services after two men were found unconscious inside a tank. One of the men died and the second man, his father, was hospitalized. Mary Meaux/The News
A man is dead and his father injured after they were found unconscious while working inside a tanker at a Port Arthur business on Friday.
The name of the deceased and the injured man were not released as of 4 p.m. Friday.
Emergency crews were called around 10 a.m. Nov. 4 to Freeflow Services, 1050 FM 365 near West Port Arthur Road where two people were in a tank at the scene, according to a press release from the city of Port Arthur.
One of the men was taken out of the tank around 11 a.m. by members of the Port Arthur Fire Departments initial responding units and sent by ambulance to The Medical Center of Southeast Texas.
The PAFD Confined Space Rescue Team recovered the second man several hours later. Residue in the tank product is listed as a flammable liquid NOS, or not other wise specified.
The tank was the trailer part of a tractor-trailer low-pressure chemical cargo tank.
The men had been inside the tank cleaning it when another worker noted he had not seen them for while and went to check on them.
Freeflow Services provides industrial tank cleaning.
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