Gainesville, TX Oilfield Worker Injured by Pipe, May 1922

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OIL WORKER HURT AS PIPE FROM DERRICK STRIKES HIM

Special to The News.

Gainesville, Texas, May 7. -- Roy Strong, employed at the Producers Oil Refinery, near this city, was taken to the sanitarium suffering from injuries sustained when a sixteen-foot iron pipe fell from the top of a derrick and struck him on the shoulder.

Dallas Morning News, Dallas, TX 8 May 1922