The widow of one of the five men killed in a natural gas rig explosion in January has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the well operator and drilling contractor.
In a lawsuit filed in Pittsburg County, Dianna Waldridge, the widow of 60-year-old Parker Waldridge of Crescent, accuses Red Mountain Energy and Patterson-UTI Energy and two of the companies' subsidiaries of negligence.
The rig was drilling near the town of Quinton, 100 miles south of Tulsa, when it caught fire and exploded on January 23.
Federal authorities are still investigating the cause. Red Mountain Energy could not be reached for comment. Patterson-UTI Energy would not comment on the case, but said it’s committed to preventing a similar accident from happening again.