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Sudden Deaths Among Oil and Gas Extraction Workers Resulting from Oxygen Deficiency and Inhalation of Hydrocarbon Gases and Vapors — United States, January 2010–March 2015

California El Camino Real Association of Occupational Health Nurses

Bob Harrison, MD is the first author of this report on sudden deaths related to exposures after opening the hatches of hydrocarbon storage tank. MMWR Click Here

A great resource to learn more about energy, the group, Physicians, Scientisits and Engineers (PSE) Healthy Energy, is housed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and has free CME programs about energy and associated health impacts, including an overview of the toxicology of shale gas development, endocrine disruption, the health impact of shale gas extraction, and patient evaluation, to name a few.  

http://www.psehealthyenergy.org/

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