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Worker injured in July oil-field explosion dies

NORRIS CITY, Ill. — One of four men injured during an explosion in a southern Illinois oil field has died.

Thirty-six-year-old Shane Farris of Enfield died Sunday in the burn unit at a hospital in Louisville, Ky.

Farris had been treated there since shortly after the July 24 explosion near Norris City.

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