Three injured after tornado hits Texas gas drilling rig

Tornado in Canadian, Texas. — (Image credit: Twitter.com/mark_tarello)

At least three people in the Texas panhandle were injured after a tornado hit a natural gas drilling rig.

Hemphill County Sheriff James Pearson said in a statement that one person was impaled in the abdomen, another had non-life-threatening injuries to the face, and the third suffered minor injuries. The drilling rig is near the small town of Canadian, where highways were closed due to flooding and fallen debris. Pearson said that there was "extensive damage to the doghouses," referring to general purpose rooms adjacent to the rig floor.

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.