tool pusher
Britishnoun
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He said that BP knew it was in difficulties and that tragedy could have been averted with "as little as a 10 second phone call" or "a 30-second walk down to the tool pusher".
From The Guardian
He was delivering the holy books to a man named Robert Bailey, the site superintendent, known in industry jargon as a “tool pusher.”
From New York Times
"I looked to where our maintenance office had been," Transocean tool pusher Randy Ezell testified, "and all I could see was feet, a pair of feet sticking out from underneath a bunch of wreckage and debris . . . When we got the debris off of this person, we saw that it was Buddy Trahan."
From Washington Post
The tool pusher could not testify -- he was among the 11 who were killed in the explosion.
From Washington Post
A BP lawyer at one point asked a line of questions hinting that the company believes that a Transocean tool pusher offered an incorrect interpretation of the negative test that downplayed the unexpected pressure in the well.
From Washington Post
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