| On more than 4,000 platforms and exploration rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, workers are asked daily to do very arduous work under difficult conditions -- often with little sleep, limited instructions and sometimes inadequate training. In some cases, as happened in this 2008 death, the company boss commands workers to do something they warn is dangerous. |
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.