The nation’s oil and natural gas boom has taken an unexpected toll in traffic fatalities in states with intense drilling activity. Some key questions and answers: Q: What’s to blame for the spike in ...

More workers were killed on drilling rigs than anywhere else in Wyoming’s oil and gas industry between 2001 and 2008, state Occupational Epidemiologist Timothy Ryan said Wednesday. The data could ...

As your “Disposable workers of the oil and gas fields” story says, no death should be overlooked or treated as unimportant. However, in comparison to the 89 deaths that occurred in the drilling ...

CASPER - Two drilling rig workers died in separate accidents last month in Wyoming. The Wyoming Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating both accidents. A Wyoming OSHA official ...

Norwegian operator Statoil has been fined Nkr10 million ($1.3 million) and drilling contractor Prosafe Nkr750,000 over a fatal accident on the Heidrun field in February 1999. The public prosecutor in ...