SAN FRANCISCO - A young, three-man team of oil workers who had been injecting water into a steel pipe to force oil from a 10,000-foot-deep well to the surface died August 10 after inhaling fumes from a hydrogen sulfide gas leak. According to a fire department spokesman, when the men removed their nozzles, water started gushing out of the ground. Jason Hoskins, 22, went to the cellar to try to shut off a valve. He was overcome immediately by a small concentration of H2S fumes. His team members tried to res
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