Worker killed, 3 others injured in Gulf of Mexico oil platform blast
- November 21, 2014
- / Ron Stallcup
- / community-dashboard
CBS News and Associated Press are reporting one person was killed and three others hurt in an explosion Thursday on an offshore oil and gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico.
A spokeswoman for Houston-based Fieldwood Energy said the explosion happened just before 3 p.m. at the West Delta 105 "E" facility, located about 12 miles off Louisiana's coast.
"One employee of a contractor was fatally injured and a second contractor employee was seriously injured," Shannon Savoy said in a statement. "We have accounted for all other personnel who were working at the facility."
The conditions of the other two people who were hurt was not immediately known.
Savoy called the explosion an "isolated incident that has been fully contained. The facility was not damaged and there was no pollution that resulted from the incident."http://www.cbsnews.com/news/1-dead-3-injured-in-explosion-on-gulf-of-mexico-oil-and-gas-platform/
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