Coroner: Drugs caused death at Greene gas well
Drugs caused the death of a West Virginia man at a Greene County gas well last month, according to the Greene County coroner.
Kerry Edward Duncan, 20, of Amma died of acute combined drug toxicity, according to coroner Gregory Rohanna. His report states that no evidence of physical violence, injury or trauma was found and the death was an accident.
Emergency personnel were dispatched to the well at 4:20 a.m. July 22. Rohanna pronounced Duncan dead at 5:05 a.m. and said he might have been electrocuted. Duncan was found near a fuel pump at the well site.
Duncan worked for Target Drilling of Smithton.
Officials from the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which is investigating the death, declined to comment on the coroner’s report.