[ShadowAce]

Thanks for the numbers--now a followup:

How many of those fire/explosions resulted in the entire crew being in the water, requiring resuce? How many were little things a local fire extinguisher put out?

[thackney]

The numbers per year are from Xenalyte. I have to plead being ignorant about those.

But click the link. Those are ALL major events and many resulting in deaths.

[Xenalyte]

I can’t speak for thackney, but for the figures I provided, a threshold has to be reached for an incident to be reported to the federales.

If you drop a welding torch and burn a hole in the floor, not reported. If you do $20 million in damage by so dropping, prepare to become a statistic.