HOUSTON—Three workers filed a lawsuit in a Texas state court in Houston on Monday against Mexico’s national oil company Pemex for injuries they allege they received in a hydrogen sulfide release at a Deer Park, Texas, refinery on Thursday.
Two contractors were killed and 35 people were treated for exposure to deadly hydrogen sulfide gas on Thursday afternoon, according to law enforcement officials.
A Pemex spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Monday.
Sergio Antonio Olvera, Jonathan Martinez, and Yoselyn Soto were working at the Pemex refinery in the Houston suburb of Deer Park when the gas was released, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday in state district court….