Worker Safety Dangerously Decreasing at the Bakken Formation

It hardly gets more unsettling than the lead sentence from a recent report about our North Dakota oil fields: “North Dakota is the most dangerous state in the country for oil field workers.” The North Dakota’s oil worker fatality rate is 75 deaths per 100,000 workers – nearly three times the national rate. Bakken Oil Workers Taking Risks…

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Car Accident Rates in North Dakota Down

Car Crash Rates and Traffic Fatalities in North Dakota Down in 2016 The North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT) reports that traffic accidents and fatalities continued their downward trend in 2016. In the U.S. there are about 30,000 lives lost to traffic accidents, while in North Dakota about 100 people die each year in motor…

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