What makes the Biford Dolphin disaster so unforgettable is not just that men died, but how instantly and grotesquely pressure turned the human body into something fragile and breakable. A single ...

A Grand Junction man working on an oil rig north of Parachute was killed around 7 p.m. on Tuesday, after having been struck on the back of the head with a blunt object, according to Garfield County ...

The decompression of diving chambers on a Norwegian oil rig in 1983 would have been avoided with modern safety interlocks.

When an explosion on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico claimed the lives of 11 people, the incident was declared a tragedy. Now, with the rig at the bottom of the Gulf and thousands of gallons of oil ...

A massive ball of flames engulfed an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, killing four people and sending terrified workers jumping into the sea. State-run oil company Petroleos Mexicanos, ...

An offshore oil rig accident off Mexico’s coast was initially described as a routine industrial incident. However, conflicting reports, delayed explanations, and unanswered technical questions quickly ...

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To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Authorities have reopened FM 792 but clean up efforts ...