30/10/2021
😞Gregory Claxton, 29-year-old man, a father of a 3-year old son, who was a veteran Iraq war soldier, died in 2015 due to 𝗵𝘆𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝘂𝗹𝗳𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲.
He was a 𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘂𝗹𝗲𝗿. It was part of his job to dip a bottle on a rope, known as a thief, into the tanks to collect a sample so the oil’s consistency, or specific gravity, could be ascertained. (The lighter the oil, the more it is worth). He also was to measure the oil’s depth and temperature to calculate the volume in the tank. On the morning of his death, Claxton climbed onto a catwalk above a tank holding crude from Well 1H. Opening the hatch, 𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝘄𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝟮𝗦. He died so suddenly that his body was found upright as if frozen in place.
❓𝗗𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀? If so, what is it?