“One employee of a contractor was fatally injured and a second contractor employee was seriously injured,” Shannon Savoy, spokeswoman for Houston-based Fieldwood Energy said in a statement. “We have accounted for all other personnel who were working at the facility.”
The conditions of the other two people who were hurt was not immediately known.
Savoy called the explosion an “isolated incident that has been fully contained. The facility was not damaged and there was no pollution that resulted from the incident.”
The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) said in a statement that the platform was not in production at the time of the explosion.
