Oil platform fire off Louisiana coast kills 2, company says

HOUSTON — A fire on an oil platform owned by a Houston-based energy company left two workers dead and one more missing off the coast of Louisiana, the company’s CEO confirmed in an interview with KHOU News 11.

Five other workers remained hospitalized as of noon on Friday and two others were released, John Hoffman, CEO of Black Elk Energy in Houston, confirmed.

The U.S. Coast Guard said at a press conference at noon that 26 total workers were on the platform Friday morning.

Four left the platform prior to the accident and 11 more after the fire, a spokesman with Coast Guard confirmed. He said nine more were later found and evacuated with two still missing. He could not confirm the two deaths, but said that 11 were sent to various hospitals in Jefferson Parish,La. READMOREHERE