Authorities in Rockport, Maine identified the victim of a deadly explosion at a local steel plant as an inmate participating in a work-release program.
Sean Rancourt, 39, was killed Friday when a 25-gallon diesel fuel tank he was welding exploded while he worked at Rockport Steel, a metal fabrication facility.
Rancourt was set to be released from jail in September after serving six years for the fatal drug overdose of his longtime friend.
The inmate was convicted of aggravated trafficking of fentanyl and sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment with all but eight years suspended in the 2017 death of Kevin Hubert.
Hubert was found dead from a fentanyl overdose in the bathroom of his home just two hours after Rancourt sold him the drugs.
“Sean had no idea that the drugs that Kevin bought from Sean were so powerful that they would result in Kevin’s death,” Rancourt’s attorney said at sentencing.
“If he knew, he never, ever would have sold them to him.”
