North Dakota’s high hazard industries get OSHA’s attention
Fatalities lead to enforcement program, extra investigators
A special enforcement emphasis program launched by OSHA this month will temporarily bring additional investigators from throughout the U.S. to North Dakota, in an effort to reduce the high fatality rates in the state's oil and gas and construction industries.
Since January 2012, 34 North Dakota workers in those industries have died because of work-related injuries. During that period, their deaths accounted for 87 percent of all North Dakota fatalities investigated by OSHA.