workplace fatalities

An oil worker died last week on a rig in Johnson County. Twenty-five year old Joshua Adam was killed Thursday at an Anschutz Corporation well site near…

Coal mining deaths in 2014 hit a record low, according to new data from the Department of Labor. Sixteen coal miners died on the job in 2014, two fewer…

Working in the oil and gas industry is dangerous. As Inside Energy reported in its "Dark Side Of The Boom" series, these jobs are actually six times more…

A miner was killed at Peabody Energy's North Antelope Rochelle coal mine in the Powder River Basin over the weekend, according to the Mine Safety and…

This week, Wyoming Public Radio aired a series of stories on workplace fatalities in the oil and gas industry. The series looked North Dakota’s high oil…

Click here to read Part 3 of the Dark Side Of The Boom series. The dangers of the Bering Sea crab fishery have been made famous by the reality TV show…

It's no secret that the oil and gas industry is dangerous. As the industry has grown to employ over half a million oil and gas workers nationwide, the…

Click here to read Part 1 of the Dark Side Of The Boom series. North Dakota is the most dangerous state in the country for oil and gas workers.But that…

Click here to read Part 2 of the Dark Side Of The Boom series. For more than a decade, Wyoming has been among the most dangerous places in the nation for…

Too many jobs, not enough bodies. That’s the dilemma of many Wyoming construction companies these days that can’t keep up with the building demands of the…