3 Workers Sue Pemex for Injuries at Texas Refinery

3 Workers Sue Pemex for Injuries at Texas Refinery
An aerial view of the Deer Park Manufacturing Complex in Deer Park, Texas on Aug. 31, 2017. Adrees Latif/Reuters
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HOUSTON—Three workers filed a lawsuit in a Texas state court in Houston on Monday against Mexico’s national oil company Pemex for injuries they allege they received in a hydrogen sulfide release at a Deer Park, Texas, refinery on Thursday.

Two contractors were killed and 35 people were treated for exposure to deadly hydrogen sulfide gas on Thursday afternoon, according to law enforcement officials.