Work Sites
Worker Groups and Representative Tasks of GuLF STUDY Participants
07/30/18
| Worked ≥ 1 Day on Spill N = 24,937 |
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|---|---|---|
| Worker Group | N | % |
|
Support
Aerial crew
Food service Security Onsite / offsite driver Office work |
4,564 | 18.3 |
|
Response
All jobs on vessels that could see
All jobs on rig vessels drilling the relief well Environmental sampling in the water |
4,479 | 18.0 |
|
Operations
Refueling vehicles
Maintain equipment and pumps Heavy equipment operator |
4,371 | 17.5 |
|
Cleanup on Water
Search for / collect oil from the water
On a vessel handling boom On a vessel skimming oil On a vessel burning oil |
4,328 | 17.4 |
|
Cleanup on Land
Cleaning / Removing oil from beaches, marshes, and other shoreline structures
Patrolled beaches and marshes Repaired oily boom |
3,634 | 14.6 |
|
Decontamination
Decontaminate vessels, boom, tanks, structures
Handled / cleaned wildlife Ice pellet removal Used low / high pressure sprayer |
3,561 | 14.3 |
Worker Groups are based on the level of potential exposure to oil spill chemicals; workers are placed in a group based on their self-reported job with the highest potential exposure. Groups are sorted from highest to lowest frequency of potential exposure.