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c.2013 Houston Chronicle< (Editors: For release on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2013)
WASHINGTON - The death of a welder who fell from an offshore platform on last week highlights the dangers facing the large immigrant and contractor workforce employed to maintain and decommission decades-old oil and gas facilities in the Gulf of Mexico.
Four Filipino workers have died in the past year during welding and other physical work on...