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Worker Injured in Bulgaria's Lukoil Neftochim Dies
Society | December 26, 2013, Thursday // 13:55
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One of the four workers who were injured at Bulgaria's Lukoil Neftochim oil refinery, sustaining heavy burns, has died.
The man, who suffered 45% 2-3 degree burns, has succumbed to sepsis, informed authorities at the Military Hospital in Varna.
Hospital director Ivaylo Vazharov reported that the 51-year-old man developed sepsis four days after hospitalization, after which the infection was suppressed, only to undergo a relapse.
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