The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection announces the availability of an update to the guidance “Capping of Volatile Contaminants for the Impact to Ground Water Pathway.”

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection announces the availability of an update to the guidance “Capping of Volatile Contaminants for the Impact to Ground Water Pathway.” This updated document includes additional language stating that all exposure pathways, including the vapor intrusion pathway, must be addressed in all cases. An additional FAQ has been added and Section 5.0 (Capping with Existing Volatile Organic Contamination in the Vadose Zone and Ground Water) has been rewritten and corresponding Figure 1 modified.



This document can be found at www.nj.gov/dep/srp/guidance/rs/.

Truck driver Percell Sherrod, 35, of Nashville, TN died after his Kenworth dump truck blew a tire, causing the vehicle to lose control and run off the left side of the interstate and begin to roll on I-65 northbound in Columbia, TN

Percell Sherrod (right) with his brother Justin (left)

COLUMBIA, Tenn. (WZTV) —

A 35-year-old man died Thursday after a tire blow-out ended with his truck flipped upside down.

Percell Sherrod, 35, of Nashville passed away from the crash. According to preliminary reports from the Tennessee Highway Patrol, Sherrod was driving a dump truck along I-65 northbound in Columbia when the vehicle's tire exploded, causing the vehicle to run off the road.

After exiting the road, the vehicle flipped upside down, trapping Sherrod. The THP said he was pronounced dead on the scene.



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By MIKE CHRISTEN mchristen@c-dh.net


January 31, 2019


A driver was killed last week after his dump truck veered off of Interstate 65 and rolled into a wooded area next to the busy highway.

The driver, who died at the scene, has been identified as 35-year-old Sherrod Percell.

The incident occurred in Maury County near mile marker 39 at approximately 12:17 p.m. last Thursday, the Tennessee Highway Patrol reported.

A report of the incident from the THP indicated investigators have determined that the Kenworth dump truck blew a tire, causing the vehicle to lose control and run off the left side of the interstate and begin to roll.

According to the report, the truck came to a rest 100 feet from the highway, with the driver trapped inside the wreckage.

The highway was briefly shut down to allow for responding emergency units to travel on the opposite direction of traffic toward the scene.

“Arriving units found a dump truck in the woods with a patient entrapped,” Maury County Fire Department shared in a post. “Unfortunately, the accident was fatal.”

The truck was carrying contaminated soil to a landfill, the department said. Crews were dispatched to clean the scene of the material, including diesel that leaked from the truck.

Randy Lorenzo Yellowman, 47, truck driver with water-hauling company Overright Trucking Inc., killed in a natural gas explosion in southern La Plata County operated by an oil and gas company, Denver-based Catamount Energy Partners LLC

 Overright Trucking is a water hauling company. With seventeen bobtail, pup and body loads, tractor trailer for all your water hauling needs. From the start of drilling, completion, to disposal after production. Road watering to keep the dust down.

We also have a drop deck flat bed trailer for gas compressor delivery and other products involving the need for a flatbed trailer.

YOU CALL IT IN WE WILL GO GET IT. OR AT LEAST TRY

• Truck Driver at Oilfields
• Went to KCHS
• Lives in Nenahnezad, New Mexico
• From Nenahnezad, New Mexico
• Single

Worker dies in explosion at natural gas site in Southwest Colorado


Cause of mishap under investigation







By Jonathan Romeo Herald staff writer

Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019


A 47-year-old New Mexico man died earlier this month after an explosion at a natural-gas well site in southern La Plata County.

According to state records, Randy Yellowman was working as a contract truck driver for an oil and gas company, Denver-based Catamount Energy Partners LLC.

Yellowman was working alone at the well site at the time of the explosion, and authorities are still investigating the incident.

An initial investigation says the explosion occurred Jan. 2, likely in the morning. Yellowman wasn’t found until later in the day. It is unclear how he was discovered.

A number of agencies responded to the scene, with the Southern Ute Indian Tribal Police and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration taking the lead in the investigation.

Lindsay Box, spokeswoman for the Southern Ute Indian Tribe, said the tribe has “no comment at this time.”

David Nelson, area director for OSHA’s Englewood office, said Tuesday that OSHA is investigating Yellowman’s death. He would not provide more details.

The well site is about 22 miles southeast of Durango and about 6 miles west of Ignacio, on an unnamed road off County Road 318. It’s on private land on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation.

Yellowman was working for Farmington-based Overright Trucking Inc., which was contracted by Catamount Energy. Calls to Overright Trucking seeking comment for this story were not returned.

Rusty Kelly, senior vice president for Catamount Energy, wrote in an email to The Durango Herald it is “unclear at this time” what caused the explosion.

Initial information, though, indicates Yellowman was transferring produced water from one of the company’s water tanks to his truck when the explosion occurred, Kelly wrote.

Produced water is a by-product of natural-gas extraction.

“Catamount is committed to the safety of its employees and its contractors,” Kelly wrote. “We at Catamount express our heartfelt condolences to Mr. Yellowman’s family and co-workers at Overright.”

In Catamount Energy’s accident report to the state, produced water was spilled in the accident, likely because of a failure with the water tank. The cause of the water tank failure and how much produced water was spilled are unknown.

Catamount’s report to the state does not go into detail about the explosion.

On Jan. 3, investigators with the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission conducted a site inspection and found no critical violations on the well pad. A review of the last inspection conducted at the well site in 2016 also found no major problems or critical violations.

Travis Duncan, spokesman for COGCC, wrote in an email that the commission is working with OSHA on the incident. He did not go into further detail about the circumstances that led to Yellowman’s death.

Attempts to reach Yellowman’s family were unsuccessful.

According to his obituary in the Farmington Daily-Times, published Jan. 11, Yellowman was born in Shiprock, and most recently was living in Nenahnezad, a community on the Navajo Nation between Farmington and Shiprock.

It is unclear how many fatalities there have been in La Plata County for workers in the oil and gas industry. The COGCC does not track oil and gas industry deaths in Colorado.

According to the Herald archives, a blast at a BP American Production Co.-owned gas compression station near Bayfield in 2012 killed one worker, Mancos resident Randy Mathews, and injured two others.

Nationwide, a total of 1,422 workers died from injuries in the oil and gas industry from 2003 to 2015, according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In 2017 alone, deaths in the oil and gas industry, as well as in mining and quarrying, increased 26 percent from the year before, with 112 deaths. Federal data show oil and gas accounted for more than 70 percent of these fatalities.

Catamount Energy started operating on the Colorado side of the San Juan Basin, which also spans into New Mexico, around 2016 after purchasing Elm Ridge Exploration Co.’s assets.

Kelly said the company operates 160 wells in Colorado.

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Randall Lorenzo Yellowman 47, of Nenahnezad, New Mexico passed from this life January 2, 2019 in Durango, Colorado. He was born November 26, 1971 in Shiprock, New Mexico. Funeral Services will be held 10:00 a.m. Saturday, January 12, 2019 at Upper Fruitland Desert View Church, Upper Fruitland, New Mexico. Interment to follow at the Kirtland/Fruitland Cemetery, Kirtland, New Mexico. Randall is in the care of Desert View Funeral Home, North U.S. Highway 491 Shiprock, New Mexico. (505) 368-4607. 

Joshua Drinkman, 30, of Eagle River, WI died in a deadly incident at Pukall Lumber Company in Arbor Vitae after getting trapped in one of the belt conveyors at the lumber company

ARBOR VITAE, Wis. (WSAW) --


Joshua Drinkman, 30, of Eagle River has been identified as the victim in a deadly incident at Pukall Lumber Company in Arbor Vitae.

It happened just before 7:30 a.m. Tuesday.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is investigating.

Drinkman died after getting trapped in one of the belt conveyors at the lumber company, according to the Vilas Couny Sheriff's Office.

The incident is not criminal in nature.


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EAGLE RIVER, Wis. —


Joshua J. Drinkman, 30, of Eagle River died Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2018, due to a work place accident.


Joshua was born June 8, 1988 in Baldwin, Wis., the son of Bruce Drinkman and Debra Doornink. He graduated from Glenwood City High School and was employed with Pukall Lumber Company. Johsua’s family meant everything to him, he loved spending time exploring and traveling with his family. Anything to do with the outdoors he immensely enjoyed; especially hunting, fishing and farming.


He will be greatly missed by his significant other, Krista Keeley; and his daughters, Chloe and Lillian Drinkman; and by his father, Bruce (friend Betty Jo) Drinkman; and mother, Debra (Marvin) Larrabee; and his siblings, Angela (Matt) Rose, Samantha (Jon) Kocherer, Cori (Paul) Winter, Ian (Tatjana) McChesney, Mike Liphardt, Jesse (Jessica) Larrabee, Stacy Larrabee, Justin Larrabee and Ashley (Andy) Skoug; and further survived by his paternal grandparents, Fred (Barb) Drinkman; and maternal grandparents, Bud (Jeane) Canfield and Cecil Doornink; and by many other relatives and friends.


Joshua was preceded in death by his stepmother, Mari Drinkman.

a 34-year-old construction worker died as he was working in a trench when one of the walls collapsed onto him in Sioux Falls, SD

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. –



A family is mourning the loss of a 34-year-old construction worker that died on Thursday. Officials say he was working in a trench when one of the walls collapsed onto him. KDLT’S Allison Royal was on the scene Thursday just after 11AM on Bahnson Avenue and Brewster Street.

“We just had two individuals that were working on a construction site over here in a trench,” said Captain Rich Miller of the Sioux Falls Police Department. “It’s approximately 10 to 15 feet deep. While they were digging, there was a partial wall collapse.”

One worker was trapped – buried underneath dirt. Police say nearby construction workers did their best to free the worker. Then, one of them called for help. Police say they were on the scene in Southeastern Sioux Falls in about two or three minutes.

“The person was still in the ditch when fire rescue got here and then Fire Rescue actually went down into the trench and then retrieved the individual from there,” said Miller.

Fire Rescue found the man unconscious and in cardiac arrest. 14 firefighters were on the scene, including an engineer.

“We have an engineer on our department and he happened to be down at station three so he came with,” said Michael Clauson, a Battalion Chief with the Sioux Falls Fire Rescue. “He’s one of our trench rescue collapse specialists.”

Paramedics Plus started resuscitation efforts and continued them in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. Police confirmed later on Thursday afternoon that the construction worker died at the hospital.

The fire rescue also had two chaplains on the scene to counsel first responders and any other construction workers that may need mental health support after today’s potentially traumatic event.

“We get called out when people are having the worst day of their life and so there’s an effect on our men and women too,” said Clauson. We want to make sure that they’re good to go and that’s the purpose of having the chaplains here today.”

Police say the coroner will perform an autopsy within the next several weeks.

OSHA is conducting an ongoing investigation at this time. A representative did say they are “very, very sorry” and that today’s fatality was “preventable.”