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Deepwater Horizon workers feared reprisals if they spoke out on safety

Posted on Jul 23, 2010

The New York Times has obtained a confidential survey of Deepwater Horizon workers about the ill fated rig’s safety. Many workers expressed more a fear of being fired than of the risk to their own lives from the well known unsafe conditions. One worker told investigators that the rig had never even been to dry dock for general repairs in its nine years of operation. The report says that even though workers felt comfortable in reporting safety concerns that could be addressed in house—on the platform itself—they feared reprisals if their concerns went to the Houston corporate office. One person was quoted that “I’m petrified of dropping anything from heights not because I’m afraid of hurting anyone but because I’m afraid of getting fired.” Transocean contracted Lloyd’s Register Group to inspect the platform and conduct individual interviews with at least 40 of its workers between March 12 and 16, which was just over a month before the explosion that killed 11 and injured 17 workers.

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