An employee on an oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico is in the hospital after being rescued by the United States Coast Guard.
According to Coast Guard officials, they received a phone call around 11:30 a.m. Saturday from a drilling platform about seven miles west of Southwest Pass.
Officials say that call notified them about a platform crew member who was having a medical emergency. The Coast Guard used a helicopter to airlift that crewmember to University Medical Center in New Orleans for treatment.
At last check, the crewmember is stable.
