Sindpetro Says These Accidents Are Petrobras’ Plan to Scrap Platforms and Privatize Them at the Cost of Offshore Workers’ Lives
This is not a repeated news story; more accidents occurred today on offshore platforms, as we barely recover from the operational incident of the NS-32 unit, in which 3 workers died in an explosion while performing maintenance on a boiler. Fortunately, this time there were no injuries.
The accident involved a “mariner” style ladder that fell from a height of about 15 meters from the tower, affectionately nicknamed “Giant.” This same ladder fell on a valve, breaking it completely.
By mere coincidence, a worker who was on the operation at that moment noticed irregular movement of the structure and ordered everyone to leave that area immediately. About 10 minutes later, the ladder fell on the pressurized systems. The weight of part of this collapsed structure is 300 kg, which could have caused more deaths.
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The unit’s SMS informed Sindpetro that the incident began due to intense gusts of wind and that part of the platform would already be closed off in the entire area covering the giant. In a statement, Petrobras reported that it is waiting for favorable weather conditions to carry out new inspections in the safe node area.
Despite being tragic, this accident was already foreseen. Platform workers had previously reported to Sindpetro that the platform is outdated and poses many risks to workers. Emphasizing the most serious of these, the cargo elevator and the main one were showing failures. The union said that other similar issues were occurring on other platforms.
Sindpetro’s management stated that this is a Machiavellian plan by Petrobras with its policy to scrap the platforms, so that they can be privatized once and for all. The problem is that they are doing this at the cost of workers’ lives.

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