Moffat, 41, died on the rig Santa Fe Magellan on 9 October 2000 while it was operating in the Franklin field, 209 kilometres east of Aberdeen. He suffocated and received multiple injuries after being trapped in an area known as the "mousehole" -- a space only 10 inches in diameter.

Sheriff Kieran McLernan heard that Moffat had been attached to a winch in order to fix a leak in a hydraulic hose about 13 metres above one deck and 2.8