The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced that it has added investigators from around the country to focus on the unusually high death rate for workers in the state's oil and gas and construction industries.
Of the 34 fatalities in those industries in the state since 2012, 21 workers died while servicing drilling rigs or conducting production support operations for the oil and gas industry, the agency said in a press release.
OSHA said it has had a local emphasis program for the oil and gas industry in North Dakota for the past three years, outlining hazards and...
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