BEAUMONT, Texas — A Jefferson County judge agreed Tuesday to allow Motiva Enterprises to resume operations at the site where a contract worker from Buna died in an electrocution accident, following a temporary injunction in a Tuesday hearing in a wrongful death lawsuit.

Brent Coon of Brent Coon and Associates law firm, representing the family of Hayden Christopher, 32, of Buna, said his team released site preservation orders after completing initial evidence preservation and inspections at the Port Arthur refinery.

"The plaintiffs have released the site preservation orders, so we're allowing them to move forward with their project on site," Coon said following the hearing. "We're allowing them to go back to work there."

Christopher, a journeyman electrician working for contractor Newtro

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