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Worker dies from Wyoming natural gas tank blast

Smoke billows at the scene of a gas storage tank explosion, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, near La Barge, Wyo. The explosion that injured several workers happened when a maintenance crew was cleaning out the tank, near the Shute Creek Plant at an EOG facility located on La Barge Highway. One man is being flown to a Salt Lake City hospital with severe burns and two others were transported to South Lincoln Medical Center in Kemmerer to be treated for burns. Two others at the scene were treated for minor injuries. (AP Photo/Kemmerer Gazette, Jack Holt)
Smoke billows at the scene of a gas storage tank explosion, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, near La Barge, Wyo. The explosion that injured several workers happened when a maintenance crew was cleaning out the tank, near the Shute Creek Plant at an EOG facility located on La Barge Highway. One man is being flown to a Salt Lake City hospital with severe burns and two others were transported to South Lincoln Medical Center in Kemmerer to be treated for burns. Two others at the scene were treated for minor injuries. (AP Photo/Kemmerer Gazette, Jack Holt) Smoke billows at the scene of a gas storage tank explosion, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, near La Barge, Wyo. The explosion that injured several workers happened when a maintenance crew was cleaning out the tank, near the Shute Creek Plant at an EOG facility located on La Barge Highway. One man is being flown to a Salt Lake City hospital with severe burns and two others were transported to South Lincoln Medical Center in Kemmerer to be treated for burns. Two others at the scene were treated for minor injuries. (AP Photo/Kemmerer Gazette, Jack Holt)

By Associated Press 1 min read

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – A Salt Lake City hospital official confirmed Wednesday morning that a man injured in a blast at a Wyoming natural gas storage tank has died.

University of Utah Hospital spokeswoman Marissa Villasenor says one of four workers injured in Tuesday’s blast died overnight at the hospital’s burn unit.

Villasenor says two other patients remained in the hospital’s burn unit. She released no further details.

A fourth worker injured at the blast was treated locally and released.

K Leonard, a spokeswoman for Houston-based EOG Resources, which owns the tank, did not immediately return messages Wednesday.

Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Stephen Malik says the Tuesday afternoon blast occurred as a maintenance crew was cleaning out the tank in a field about 30 miles northwest of Green River.