Offshore natural gas platform worker dies

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Source: Reuters

An employee on a non-producing offshore natural gas platform died after falling through a deck opening on Monday, the U.S. offshore drilling regulator said.

The employee of Alliance Oilfield Services was working on a Hilcorp Energy platform in 375 feet of water about 129 miles off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement said in a statement. Hilcorp and Alliance are both privately-held companies.

The fatality occurred two days before this week's year anniversary of the deadly rupture of BP Plc's deepwater Macondo well which caused an explosion that that killed 11 workers and sank a massive drilling rig. More than 4 million barrels of oil spewed into the Gulf.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/18/us-usa-offshore-death-idUSTRE73H74Z20110418

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1. I guess that will make them a "safe" company.