Hello everyone,
I don't write much but this forum is so full of great/educated people that I feel like I can ask your opinion. A few months ago my husband was involved in an offshore explosion which killed 3 of his friends. It flew him back 20 feet into a guardrail which saved him from going overboard. He walked off with a few cuts and bruises and felt really sore, but for the most part was okay. Two months later his back starts hurting him, especially his neck. He's gotten an MRI recently which shows a few herniations and some bulging discs. His company is willing to pay for the doctor visits which seems nice right? He's scared to death to ever go offshore again and I don't blame him. All he asked for from this company is the same pay he was getting offshore but work in the shop on land that this company has. He has worked really hard to get this offshore job and when he was out there he didn't work near as hard as the on-land job - so you could say he had it made. At first this company told him they would do whatever they could to help him out and that they would pay him the same amount of money. Now that another month has gone by they refuse to pay him what they said they would pay him. He's also working 7 days a week busting his butt 12 hours a day. He's the only one not suing this company, and that's where the big question comes in. He's totally getting screwed over, now has back problems, pretty much got demoted, and we are getting nothing from it. All in all he's making 2000.00 less a WEEK. We are not the suing type at all, we've always looked down on it, but now we really think we have no choice. I just wanted y'alls advice and how you would handle it. I guess he could always quit and go somewhere else, but isn't that like letting them get away with this? One more important point, it was the men in the offices' fault that this boat blew up. It was all about saving money. Any advice before it's too late to do anything??
Barbara
I don't write much but this forum is so full of great/educated people that I feel like I can ask your opinion. A few months ago my husband was involved in an offshore explosion which killed 3 of his friends. It flew him back 20 feet into a guardrail which saved him from going overboard. He walked off with a few cuts and bruises and felt really sore, but for the most part was okay. Two months later his back starts hurting him, especially his neck. He's gotten an MRI recently which shows a few herniations and some bulging discs. His company is willing to pay for the doctor visits which seems nice right? He's scared to death to ever go offshore again and I don't blame him. All he asked for from this company is the same pay he was getting offshore but work in the shop on land that this company has. He has worked really hard to get this offshore job and when he was out there he didn't work near as hard as the on-land job - so you could say he had it made. At first this company told him they would do whatever they could to help him out and that they would pay him the same amount of money. Now that another month has gone by they refuse to pay him what they said they would pay him. He's also working 7 days a week busting his butt 12 hours a day. He's the only one not suing this company, and that's where the big question comes in. He's totally getting screwed over, now has back problems, pretty much got demoted, and we are getting nothing from it. All in all he's making 2000.00 less a WEEK. We are not the suing type at all, we've always looked down on it, but now we really think we have no choice. I just wanted y'alls advice and how you would handle it. I guess he could always quit and go somewhere else, but isn't that like letting them get away with this? One more important point, it was the men in the offices' fault that this boat blew up. It was all about saving money. Any advice before it's too late to do anything??
Barbara
