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Three Workers Killed in a Pulling Unit Explosion Near Rankin — What Their Families Need to Know Right Now If you are reading this because someone you love did not come home from the well site that Tuesday morning in 2015, we want you to understand something before anything else: the company that owned the well and the company that employed your loved one are already, right now, building their defense. The well operator and the contractor employer are two different companies, and each one is already pointing at the other. The choices you make in the next few days — what you sign, what you say, who you talk to — will shape everything that follows. We are writing this page so that when that phone rings, you already know what is true and what is a trap. Three men died on a pulling unit crew at a Parsley Energy well site near Rankin, in Upton County, Texas. A fourth worker on the site survived. The Upton County Sheriff’s Office responded. OSHA launched a federal fatality investigation. The well was owned by Parsley Energy of Midland. The men who died were employed by Mason Well Service Ltd. of Odessa,…