Fire on Shell platform injuries 2

Two Shell oil workers were injured as a result of a 1:30 a.m. Wednesday (Nov. 8) fire aboard the company’s Enchilada platform at Garden Banks about 112 miles south of Vermillion Bay, La., in the Gulf of Mexico. (Source: NOLA.com 11/08/17) The Coast Guard and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) are responding to the platform fire. Forty-six crewmen were transferred to the nearby Salsa platform by the offshore supply vessel C-Liberty. The two injured include a 54-year-old male with flash burns and a concussion, and a 29-year-old male with a sprained wrist and concussion. Shell launched an emergency helicopter and medevaced both to the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Texas. The platform and all associated production have been shut in. The fire has been reduced to a small flame coming out of a pipe on the platform., according to the Coast Guard.