AFL-CIO: North Dakota's worker death rate highest

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

AFL-CIO: North Dakota's worker death rate highest
By JOSH WOOD, Associated Press | April 30, 2014 | Updated: April 30, 2014 6:19pm

WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota continues to have the highest worker death rate in the country, with 17.7 fatalities per 100,000 employees in 2012, the nation's largest labor federation said Wednesday.

The 2012 rate is a dramatic increase from the 7 deaths per 100,000 workers recorded in 2007 before the state's oil and economic boom took off.

The data comes from an AFL-CIO report slated to be released next week and included in a statement to The Associated Press on Wednesday. In the statement, the AFL-CIO said North Dakota's 2012 rate is one of the highest it has observed since the federation began issuing reports on worker fatalities more than 20 years ago.

North Dakota also had the highest worker fatality rate in the nation in 2011, with 12.4 deaths per 100,000 employees that year. The national worker fatality rate was 3.5 deaths per 100,000 employees in 2011.

AFL-CIO said other states with that showed high worker fatality rates in 2012 include Wyoming, Alaska, West Virginia and South Dakota.


Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/AFL-CIO-North-Dakota-s-worker-death-rate-highest-5442792.php

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1. wow

a serious bellwether.
local right wingers love to point out ND's economic security with fracking, but are loath to acknowledge the horrific underbelly of that beast as it ruins the lives of native Dakotans, particularly women, threatened by rape and other crimes of intimidation and violence thanks to the success of fracking and the lowlife wildcatters it gathers while raping the cost of living for previous residents.
this stuff is important, and we should make the most of it. It could be your state next.