Killed Rig Worker Fiercely Concerned With BP Lax Safety (Spent Last Trip Getting Affairs In Order)

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Killed Transocean rig worker was fiercely concerned about BP’s lax safety standards

By David Edwards
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 -- 5:31 pm

At least one of the eleven men that died in the initial explosion that triggered a disaster in the Gulf expressed concerns about safety practices on the oil rig.

Transocean toolpusher Jason Anderson told his wife, Shelly, that he was concerned about BP's safety practices on the rig. Anderson was so worried about an accident that he spent his last trip home getting his affairs in order.

"Everything seemed to be pressing to Jason about getting things in order. In case something happened. Teaching me how to do certain things on the motor home so that I could go and do things with the kids, make sure that I knew how to do everything," an emotional Shelly Anderson told NBC's Lisa Myers.

Her husband drew up a will and talked about his hopes for their daughter and son.

The last few times Jason called her from the rig he was was clearly worried.

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“My Jason told me he had argued BP down a few times on previous wells when they wanted him to speed things up and make changes that were unsafe,” Billy Anderson said yesterday in an interview at his home near Blessing, Texas, about 110 miles southwest of Houston. “But the last two times he was home he said they were putting more and more pressure on him and he was worried.”

The Anderson family has retained Texas attorney Ernest Cannon to represent their interests.

Billy Anderson said surviving crew members have told him that on the night of the disaster, his son was on a part of the rig called the drilling floor, directing eight other Transocean workers in an effort to control a surge of pressure flowing up from the well head about 5,000 feet (1,524 meters) below the sea surface.

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1. I guess he could have quit?

But what good would that do? Were he still alive he'd hate himself.

So, he probably stayed on board and tried to get the rig running right.

And who could he have turned to to alert the authorities? He would have been fired then. But who would have answered him? The MMS, the CG?

I feel so sorry for Jason. What his company and his country have done is a crime.

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2. A longer version of the story

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-05-27/bp-pressured-rig-worker-to-hurry-before-disaster-father-says.html

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4. Thank you.

Will add to OP.

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3. Heartbreaking. nt

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8. K&R

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