Man dies in drill rig accident

PINEDALE -- A 24-year-old man died Tuesday after being struck on the head by a piece of falling pipe on a drilling rig in southwest Wyoming.

The man's identity was not immediately released.

James Duran of Shell Exploration and Production said the man worked for a drilling contractor hired by Shell.

He said the accident occurred about 1 a.m. Tuesday on the north end of the Pinedale Anticline natural gas field.

Sublette County sheriff's spokesman Randall Hanson said the man died at a clinic in Pinedale from head injuries.

More cattle may have disease

PINEDALE -- State Veterinarian Walt Cook said late Tuesday afternoon that official brucellosis test results were not yet in on about 250 head of cattle from a Daniel-area herd that were tested on Monday.

However, preliminary results indicate that at least a few more animals in that herd will either be classified as “reactors” or “suspects,” according to Cook, which will initiate efforts to culture the brucella bacteria in order to learn if the animals are actually harboring the disease.

Last week, it was determined that a Daniel cattleman’s commercial cattle herd included at least 15 animals that had brucellosis. Monday’s testing was on the same cattleman’s purebred herd.

“We’re in the waiting-for-results mode,” Cook said. “But it doesn’t look good for the purebred herd. I’m pretty saddened by it.”

Brucellosis is a highly infectious disease that causes cows to abort.

Biker dies near Beartooth Pass

CODY -- A Canadian man died Monday in a motorcycle wreck on U.S. Highway 212, the second fatal incident in a less than a week involving a biker in Park County.

Douglas W. Dunwoody, 55, of Calgary, Alberta, was traveling south with three other motorcycles at 8:30 a.m. when he failed to negotiate a turn, according to a report released by the Wyoming Highway Patrol.

The incident occurred about 78 miles northwest of Cody.

Head-on crash kills tourists

MOOSE -- Grand Teton National Park officials say two tourists from Belgium were killed when their car crashed head-on with a semi-truck hauling a car transport trailer.

The crash happened Monday afternoon on U.S. Highway 26/89/191 just south of the Albright scenic overlook. Teton County Coroner Bob Campbell says the man and a woman were in a Ford Focus.

Park officials say the victims' names have not been released pending notification of relatives.

Searchers look for sheriff's son

PINEDALE -- Teams are searching around the Big Sandy area for a man missing since Saturday.

Sublette County sheriff's spokesman Randall Hanson said Tuesday that the missing man is 24-year-old Garrett Bardin of Pinedale. Bardin is the son of Sublette County Sheriff Wayne "Bardy" Bardin.

Garrett Bardin was last seen driving a silver, 2006 four-wheel-drive Lincoln pickup south on Wyoming Highway 191. The truck has Wyoming license plate 23-770B.

Hanson said the search is centered on Big Sandy, on the southern flanks of the Wind River Mountains.