'On April 20, 2010, a sudden explosion and fire occurred on the oil rig. The accident killed 11 workers, seriously injured 17 others, and caused a massive, ongoing oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico. The accident had far reaching effects on the lives of tens of thousands of people.The rig was located approximately 50 miles southeast of Venice, Louisiana, and had a 126-member crew onboard.'
'The Macondo blowout resulted, says the CSB, from a complex combination of deficiencies : process safety safeguards and inadequate management systems and processes meant to ensure safeguard effectiveness, human and organizational factors that created an environment ripe for error, organizational culture focused more on personal safety and behavorial observations than on major accident prevention, and a regulatory regime unable to deliver the necessary oversight for the high risk activities involved in deepwater exploration, drilling and production.'
The CSB released a narrated computer animation recreating the Deepwater Horizon blowout, four years later.