Posts Tagged ‘Fatality’

Worker Killed Cleaning Equipment On Oil Platform

Monday, December 8th, 2014

A worker named Jerrel Hancock was reportedly killed in an offshore explosion during a routine maintenance at the Echo oil-and-gas platform of Fieldwood Energy LCC in the Gulf of Mexico.
The accident was attributed by the company to an “isolated pressure event” that occurred while the worker was cleaning a piece of equipment that separates oils from other … Read More...