According to government data, Katrina destroyed 46 oil platforms and damaged 100 pipelines in August 2005. Massive waves sunk entire platforms and snapped seabed anchors. Hurricane Rita dealt a second blow less than a month later.
The oil boom in North Dakota and elsewhere has claimed the lives of dozens of oil field workers. Fatalities from the boom are drawing renewed attention from government scientists.
For generations, people accepted that sore, tired feet were just a result of a hard day’s work, and tugging at the unforgiving leather boots to take them off at the end of the day became a symbolic end-of-work ritual that allowed the exhausted worker to finally put their work-weary feet up, before they try and recover until starting the cycle all over again the next morning.
Like many worksites, oil and gas sites have potential hazards like falling from elevated platforms, slipping and tripping, and accidents due to lack of proper machine guarding.