SAFETY
XTO settles wrongful death case
Exxon Mobil Corp. subsidiary XTO Energy Inc. settled a wrongful death lawsuit yesterday with the widow of a worker who died on an XTO oil production site in Oklahoma.
Mike Soraghan
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Mike writes enterprise and investigative stories, primarily on oil and gas drilling. Before coming to EnergyWire, he covered congressional leadership for The Hill newspaper and served as a Washington correspondent for The Denver Post. He has received awards from the National Press Club, the Society of Environmental Journalists and the Society of Professional Journalists. He was a Kiplinger Fellow in 2014 and participated in NICAR Bootcamp in 2013. He is a member of Investigative Reporters and Editors and a committee chairman and former board member at the National Press Club.
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