AUSTIN, Texas — A West Texas oil executive will go to prison for violating laws meant to protect workers — actions that led to the deaths of a worker and his wife in 2019.
Trent Day, vice president at Odessa, Texas-based Aghorn Energy, pleaded guilty to charges of violating the Clean Air Act and OSHA regulations, the Department of Justice announced on Wednesday.
It’s a rare criminal verdict in an industry where dozens of workers per year die on the job, and more than a thousand Texans die crossing oilfield roads…