Officials on Tuesday recovered the remains of five gas rig workers who had been missing since a fiery explosion in eastern Oklahoma a day earlier.
Pittsburg County Sheriff Chris Morris said once the natural gas drilling rig was stabilized following the blast and subsequent fires, employees from the state medical examiner’s office went into the wreckage and recovered the bodies in about two hours.
“The bodies were located in the area where they were presumed to be working in, what they call the ‘dog house,'” Morris said, referring to a room on the rig floor that generally serves as an office for the drilling crew.
He said state and federal investigators will work with the companies involved to determine how Monday’s blast occurred.
An initial incident report into the explosion…