Hydrogen sulfide leak at Alberta oil well kills worker

FOX CREEK, Alta. – A hydrogen sulfide leak at a northern Alberta oil well site has killed one worker.

Several other people, including a Mountie at a roadblock, were injured after inhaling the deadly gas.

RCMP say three workers were doing maintenance work on a gas line off Highway 47 near Fox Creek on Saturday evening when hydrogen sulfide began to leak.

Two of the workers were exposed, but the third was far enough away that he could get assistance for his colleagues.

Firefighters from Fox Creek donned breathing packs and were able to get the two workers out, but one of the workers died at the scene.

The other was taken to hospital in Fox Creek.

RCMP say one of their officers was conducting a road block some distance away when he also breathed in some of the gas, and is now being treated in hospital.