This happened back in 2014, and only now has a judgement been rendered. That poor family. So much unsettled business.
Back in 2014, America was still in a panic about the potential of the Ebola bacteria to take out a large portion of the general public. Months later in 2015, we were told to worry about having a Zika Baby.
8 years for justice
So why was the grating open? Why was the barrier around the grating removed? Who knew there were workers around an open, unbarriered, grating in the dark? Did the jury’s verdict reflect that the death was caused by a BP employee who screwed up, by a BP supervisor who decided to cut some corners, or by a corporate level BP policy?
This story appears to be missing vital details, but this:
“Mr Anderson, a multi-skilled scaffolder with rope access qualifications, would have known why the safety barrier had been erected and that it was safe-guarding an opening on the deck. The court heard he had - in the days running up to his death - been working as part of the team who had built the hard barrier protecting the fatal hole in the decking – through which he fell.”
seems to suggest he crossed the barricade he had helped construct to enter the area where he fell. I was a safety manger for a shipyard for 20 years. One question I frequently had to ask injured people was, “WTF did you do that?”.