workplace fatalities

The deaths spanned industries. Despite a significant rise over 2022, the Department of Workforce Services said they’re not necessarily indicative of unsafe workplaces.

Nick Ullrich is setting me up in a generic office at the Gillette College Technical Education Center. Ullrich, a safety instructor for the Mine Safety and…

Wyoming is once again the state with the highest rate of workplace-related deaths according to a new report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and…

A 25-year-old immigrant got a job working for a landscaping company in Jackson. One day, he was out mowing a lawn."I had an accident. A coworker drove…

Allie Gross of the Jackson Hole News and Guide and Melodie Edwards of Wyoming Public Radio collaborated on a story about worker's compensation for…

The Wyoming Department of Workforce Services has released a report analyzing occupational fatalities in the state between 2012 and 2016. The report breaks…

An accident in Colorado brings the total coal mine deaths this year to 11: more than in all of 2016.Blue Mountain Energy, Inc. released a statement Aug. 3…

A study from the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services shows that while workplace fatalities have decreased overall, there has not been a significant…

Wyoming saw a large year-over-year increase in worker deaths in 2014. Thirty-seven workers died on the job last year, according to newly released data…

A change in reporting requirements means Wyoming employers will have to notify the state’s workplace safety regulators after the hospitalization of any…