Offshore worker injured after falling on North Sea platform By Ashleigh Barbour December 2 2014, 9:09 am December 2 2014, 9:09 am Share Offshore worker injured after falling on North Sea platform Share via Facebook Twitter Whatsapp Messenger Linkedin Email Post link https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/418578/offshore-worker-injured-falling-north-sea-platform/ Copy Link A holidaymaker has been airlifted to ARI An offshore worker was airlifted to hospital last night after falling on a North Sea platform. The 64-year-old man is believed to have fallen from a ladder aboard TAQA’s Eider platform, 112 miles north-east of Shetland, at 10pm. He was brought ashore by the Shetland coastguard helicopter and taken to Gilbert Bain hospital in Lerwick. A spokeswoman for the oil company said she understood the man had been taken to hospital “as a precaution” and was not seriously injured.
