STONEWALL — A man reportedly working on a natural gas rig in DeSoto Parish had one of his arms or hands amputated late Tuesday night.





The incident was reported to 911 about 9 p.m. DeSoto sheriff's deputies were dispatched to meet a truck with the injured man at state Highway 3276 at Linwood Road. Life Air landed at the site within minutes and picked him up.

The man was driven to the intersection in a private vehicle from a Chespeake Energy Corp. well site on Red Bluff Road, Sheriff Rodney Arbuckle said. Other details about what happened were still sketchy at press time, he said


The injury joins more than a half-dozen others occurring since last year when the Haynesville Shale natural gas exploration took hold in DeSoto. At least one other arm amputation and several head injuries have been reported.


Three men have died, with the latest happening in mid-November during a well blowout in Grand Cane. A Shreveport man died in February, and a Logansport man died in September.


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