Death toll rises to 3 in Gatesville hospital blast as debris agreement reached
https://www.wacotrib.com/news/courts_and_trials/agreement-reached-over-hospital-blast-site-third-death-reported/article_d0f89847-4629-597d-896b-ba03d5c8153d.htmlA third person has died as a result of the June 26 explosion at Coryell Memorial Hospital in Gatesville, his family's attorney said Monday after a Waco district judge approved an agreement to preserve the site of the construction-related blast to allow further investigation of its cause.
Wilber Dimas, 30, an electrician who was severely burned in the blast, died Sunday at Dell Seton Medical Center in Austin, said the attorney, Jim Dunnam of Waco.
Judge Vicki Menard of the 414th State District Court on Monday approved an agreement that Dimas' family had sought that prohibits destroying, altering, repairing or removing of debris at the blast site at Coryell Memorial Hospital on June 26. The hospital and contractors involved in the ongoing construction project there agreed to the measure.
The family, represented by Dunnam and Houston attorney Robert E. Ammons, won a temporary restraining order filed earlier this month to preserve the site.
Michael Bruggman, 44, of Rogers, a Lochridge Priest Inc. employee, died at the job site on the day of the explosion, and Filiberto Morales, 36, of Round Rock, a member of Network Controls team, died two days later.
Dunnam said he was satisfied with the agreement and hopes it will bring answers for victims.
Days after the explosion, officials confirmed the explosion happened in a boiler room, but the official cause of the explosion remains unclear. Dunnam said the goal of the temporary restraining order was to preserve the evidence, so all parties can better understand what happened.
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