Houston Maritime Lawyer Gives Comprehensive Information about Oil Rig Blast
My good friend and Houston maritime injuries lawyer, Brian Beckcom, has put up an informative and comprehensive news web site about the April 20, 2010 Transocean oil rig explosion. One of the most significant oil/rig platform accidents in recent years, this one caused 17 injuries. More than 100 workers arrived ashore on a lifeboat about two days after the blast. Eleven oil rig workers are still missing. Officials are in the process of investigating what went wrong and how this tragedy occurred.
Oil Rigs Have Poor Safety Record
If anyone knows that working on these oil-rigs is anything but safe, it's Brian Beckcom. In fact, he handled a case on behalf of an injured worker's family on Transocean oil rig years before this incident occurred. Even the Wall Street Journal interviewed Beckcom because of his experience and expertise on these specific types of maritime injury cases.
Beckcom says in his blog that oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico continue to be deadly for workers. Since 2006, there have been 509 recorded fires in oil and gas drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Beckcom says nine of these oil rig fires have killed two people and left 12 with serious personal injuries. Transocean rigs alone accounted for 19 fires over the last four year. Over the last two years, there were two fires on Transocean rigs.
Contacting an Experienced Maritime Lawyer
Beckcom says the most common injuries in oil rig fires are severe burn injuries. He says a majority of offshore injuries go unreported or underreported. The figures that oil companies cite to boast about their safety record is not even the tip of the iceberg. The unreported injuries often do not come to light. So we don't get an accurate picture about worker safety on these rigs. Beckcom also observes in his blogs that the topic of offshore safety only comes up when there is a major tragedy such as the Transocean oil rig blast. The Deepwater Horizon's is the deepest oil and gas well to date.
If you are looking for an oil rig injury lawyeroil rig injury lawyer, look no further than the Vujasinovic & Beckcom Law Firm. Not only do they have experience representing injured workers in offshore drilling accidents, but they also have a history of representing victims against this very same company involved in the recent blast.
The attorneys' wealth of knowledge on the subject shows through in the useful and comprehensive information they have posted on the website. Any victim or a victim's family would benefit immensely from going to this website including getting information about the legal issues surrounding their case and how they should select a competent personal injury lawyer to represent them. The Vujasinovic & Beckcom firm has done a tremendous service to injured victims and their families by getting this important information out there in a timely and efficient manner.
