Losing his father has shaped Shane Gorman's life, inspiring him to follow him in trying to make the industry safer.

Unite's general secretary has written to Energy Secretary Ed Miliband to warn over 'serious risk of a major accident' at the ...

THE first thing Ed Punchard knew about the explosion on the Piper Alpha oil rig was when the roof of his “bomb proof” office collapsed on his head. The diver, who’d already come close to one ...

A person was killed and multiple others were injured after an explosion at a coke plant near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, police said. Two people remain missing after the explosion at about 11am local ...

A major tragedy was averted on Tuesday evening after operatives of the Kwara State Fire Service prevented a petrol tanker ...

Shane Gorman was 18 when he lost his dad in the Piper Alpha disaster. David was a safety officer on the oil platform, which stood about 120 miles (193km) north-east of Aberdeen. He was one of 167 men ...

On July 6th, 1988, a series of explosions destroyed the Piper Alpha oil platform - 167 men were killed, only 61 survived. It remains the world’s worst offshore disaster. In minute-by-minute detail, ...

An explosion at a building in Madrid has injured 25 people, two of them seriously, emergency services for the Spanish capital ...

There is no indication that either a collision or an explosion caused the 1994 sinking of a ferry in the Baltic Sea in one of Europe’s deadliest peacetime maritime disasters, the accident ...

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A total of 852 people were killed when the M/S Estonia sank 29 years ago – one of Europe’s worst peacetime maritime disasters. Physical model of the Estonia is presented during a news conference at ...