Diver dies after incident at Norwegian rig yard

The Divers Association will attempt to find out what caused this divers life and pass on the information. Information is a safety issue! And all to often takes months to years to come out. This is unacceptable!

A diver died on Friday following an incident that happened on Wednesday, January 27, at the Westcon Olen rig yard in Norway.

According to Westcon, which did not provide too many details on the accident, the incident happened on Wednesday morning at the yard, and was related to diving work. Click Highlighted Text

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Posted February 1, 2016

Translated statement by company:

"Westcon has posted a message on its website, with a statement by the executive director of Westcon Yards in Ã˜len, Ã˜ystein Matre.

- This is a serious incident and we are now assisting Police and Labour Inspection to clarify what has happened, he says.

Marius Parmann in PR agency First House is press officer for Westcon.

- Westcon has assisted diving company and the injured, he said.

- Will Westcon start internal investigation?

- Currently, we assist the police and the Labour Inspection with the information they need. We'll come back to whether we should initiate an internal investigation, says Parmann."

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