Workers who became ill or injured in the 2010 BP oil spill cleanup are still coming forward to ask for justice.
One of those workers recently filed a negligence lawsuit after serious injuries from being thrown onto the deck of a boat.
Victoria Sanchez was working for defendant American Pollution Control Corp. on July 13, 2010 aboard the cleanup vessel No Gas II that was conducting operations for the Deepwater Horizon response efforts and Gulf oil spill. She claims that she was tossed to the deck while deploying boom material and suffered serious physical and mental injuries. No further details on the injuries were provided in the Louisiana Record report of the case.
Her case file lists accusations against American Pollution Control including failure to provide a safe working place, providing an unseaworthy vessel with improper equipment and failure to maintain or provide equipment.
Sanchez seeks compensation for pain, disability, mental anguish, loss or earnings and earning capacity, and maintenance and cure.
This lawsuit is a reminder of the problems that plagued the BP “Vessels of Opportunity” program in the months after the Gulf oil spill. There were scores of fishermen and other workers in the cleanup effort who came down with symptoms including nausea, burning eyes, severe headaches and rashes. Read about this in our blog library here.
If you or a loved one has been injured or became ill while working in the Gulf oil clean up or as part of the BP Vessels of Opportunity program, contact a maritime law firm at once, before the statute of limitations expires.
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