Piper Alpha oil rig disaster

Title

Piper Alpha oil rig disaster

Genre

Interview

TX Date

12 Jul 1988

Year of production

1988

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Duration

00:02:19

Description

Lisa Hampele interview with Dean Naylor, survivor, on the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster where one hundred and sixty-six workers died; blames it on company negligence.

Contributors

Lisa Hampele; Dean Naylor

Keywords

Fires; Industrial accidents; Oil extraction; Petroleum industry; Gas explosions; Oilfields; Piper Alpha; Occidental

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