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A Delta Airlines mechanic was killed when the landing gear doors in the wheel well area of an Airbus A319 that was to depart to St. Louis at 7 AM somehow malfunctioned or activated and killed him. The mechanic, 47 year old Jesse Paul Stygar of Rosemount, MN, was found inside the landing gear doors and had no pulse.  Reports say Stygar died of a head injury. The airline – as well as local officials – are investigating, and the…

As oil continues to gush from the BP well in the Gulf of Mexico, another crisis this month nearly 50 years ago is being remembered. The C.P. Baker, a catamaran-type drilling barge had started to drill when the water around the vessel began to bubble, boil and eventually geyser up with some force between the hulls of the C.P Baker – similar to the way the BP disaster started. When water entered the vessel through open doors on the main…

As he walked behind a truck, a an oil and gas “swamper” tripped as the truck was backing up with a load and was killed when the vehicle drove over him, reports say. The workplace accident occurred in June when a drilling rig was being moved to another site. With approximately ten loads remaining to transport off the site, a pole truck driver and his helper – or swamper — were relocating a grated landing. A sling had been secured…

A crew member of a Qatargas time-chartered vessel died from injuries he sustained while boarding a service launch from the ship on which he had been working.  The worker, who had just completed his tour of duty and was leaving the ship to return home, was moving from the ship to a launch to take him ashore. The ship’s gangway was rigged so that the crew would have to jump from the gangway to the second ship’s deck, a distance…

A worker at a stone fabrication shop was killed after being crushed by a 700-pound slab of granite while moving the stone to a storage rack. The accident occurred on a recent Saturday afternoon, while the victim and a co-worker were moving stone slabs into the warehouse from an outdoor storage area. The 49-year-old victim acted as a spotter while the co-worker operated a forklift. The accident occurred when the special lifting device called a jib-boom, which pushed against the…