Third Person Dies From Chesapeake Well Blast in Texas: Local Media

Third Person Dies From Chesapeake Well Blast in Texas: Local Media
An oil well in the Permian Basin in Garden City, Tex., on Feb. 5, 2015. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
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A third person has died following a blast this week at a Chesapeake Energy Corp well site in Burleson County, Texas, according to a local media report.

Brian Maldonado, 25, of San Diego, Texas, succumbed on Saturday morning to injuries he suffered during Wednesday’s blast, the Alice Echo-News Journal reported, citing family and friends. Attempts by Reuters to reach Maldonado’s relatives were not immediately successful.