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Death at Milford Haven gasworks

Aug 10 2008 by James McCarthy, Wales On Sunday

A MAN’S body has been recovered from a gas terminal in West Wales.

It is understood he collapsed on top of a gas tank at the Dragon LNG plant in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, and a team of firefighters had to scale the terminal’s structure on Friday evening to reach his body.

The body was brought down from the tank after being strapped into a high-sided stretcher.

A spokesman for West Wales Ambulance service said: “We had a call at 5.11pm to the Dragon LNG site. There was a deceased patient there. We don’t know exactly what happened.”

The body was taken to the mortuary at Withybush Hospital in Haverfordwest.

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