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What an Offshore Platform Fire Means for a Maritime Worker — and Why the Law That Protects You Depends on Where the Fire Happened If you are reading this because you were hurt in a platform fire — or because someone you love was — you are probably sitting in a hospital room or a kitchen at two in the morning, trying to understand what rights you actually have. The phone has not rung yet from a lawyer. Maybe it has rung from your employer’s claims department, and the voice on the other end sounded friendly. We need to tell you what that voice means, what your rights really are, and why the answer depends entirely on one question: whose waters were you standing in when the fire started. Ten workers were injured in a fire on ONGC’s SHP offshore platform, a production installation on the Mumbai High oil field roughly 160 kilometers off the coast of India. The fire broke out around 5:45 pm local time. ONGC’s emergency response teams contained and extinguished the blaze before it could spread to other platform infrastructure. All ten injured workers were reported in stable condition with what were described as minor injuries.…