The national fatality rate for gas and oil extraction workers is eight times higher than the average of all occupations. Oil accident related deaths are often gruesome. In 2007, at a drilling site in West Texas, a steel cable sliced an oil rig worker in half. Other workers have died when struck by hunks of metal sent flying when wells …
One Worker Dead and One Missing After Oil Rig Accident
Recently a gulf oil rig platform went up in flames after an explosion on the platform located in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast. One dead body was found by divers and one worker is still missing. There were 22 workers on the platform when the oil rig explosion occurred, according to Coast Guard Capt. Ed Cubanski, chief …
Oil Workers File Wrongful Death Lawsuit After Explosion
On March 6, 2012 there was an explosion at the Valero Refinery in Memphis, TN. It occurred after workers were instructed to block off a flare line that was on a two-story platform. Flares act as safety devices and let out and burn pressurized gases. The workers took out the bolts from the flare flange when a large flash fire …
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