Colbert man hospitalized for mercury poisoning, dies
DURANT, Okla. -- A Colbert man who suffered mercury poisoning while using mercury to remove gold from electronic equipment has died.
Durant/ Bryan County Emergency Management Director James Dalton says 55-year-old Tony Winnett died at a Tulsa hospital.
Dalton also says the home where Winnett and Melissa Lake used the mercury is so contaminated it's now uninhabitable.
Lake also suffered mercury pois...
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