The family of a man who died over the weekend is devastated after learning he was killed in an explosion at a chemical plant in Pryor. They say he’s been in the oil and gas industry for 40 years and was just doing the job he started only 3 days ago.

Under a shaded picnic table in Avant, the family sits close together, wiping tears and sharing stories of Lonnie Swift.

But all are trying to make sense of what they learned the morning of October 4th.

"It'll be a hole that's never filled," said his niece, Krystal Alsup.

They say Swift died after an explosion at the LSB Industries facility in Pryor, where he was working as a welder's helper.

"He was holding a T-joint weld so that the welder could put a tack in it so it could be welded up," said his nephew Matthew Muse.

But that’s when the

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